Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: take something as read (used idiomatically: yes)
Well it it perhaps picks up this point While your colleagues are all perusing P P G twelve . It is was really erm the question of how many other P P Gs could be taken as read er if we decide that P P G seven could just be left on its own and not included in the structure plan . Er it seems to me that erm there are probably quite a few policies in the structure plan that could be omitted if we just took the all the P P Gs as read . Erm as far as I 'm concerned Mr Donson 's point that there are significant areas of the county which are covered by other policies , national parks , heritage coast , high quality agricultural land , Erm that may be true but there are significant areas which are not covered by those policies and it seems to me that if erm the county structure plan is going to provide a strategy then it should be relatively comprehensive .
Idiom: on the same wavelength (used idiomatically: yes)
I argued over the wording of the campaign slogan because I felt that ‘ Do n't Forget the British Hostages in Beirut’ was better than ‘ Free the Hostages’or ‘ Support the Hostages’ . Afterwards I felt ashamed that I thought I knew better than they did , especially when they were doing everything for free . But every little detail seemed crucial and it was something I struggled with all the way through , but knowing that Cathy , Joan and I were all on the same wavelength and felt the same level of commitment was a great relief . When it came to setting up the Friends , I found the words ‘ realistic’ or ‘ moderation’didn't have much meaning for me . I had a tendency to run around in circles getting more and more worked up .
Idiom: tread the boards (used idiomatically: yes)
CLANGER : Fergie EDDIE THE EAGER … BUDDING actor Prince Edward will mimic brother Charles as he treads the boards tonight . And his role will mirror the Andy - Fergie marriage crisis . Edward portrays rich , bumbling Arthur Gower in the Victorian comedy Trelawny Of The Wells .
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: yes)
Partnerships should look at the case for an education service , in terms of the opportunities it presents for sensible planning , provision for population migration and demographic change , best use of scarce and expensive resources , effective curriculum and professional development , smooth transition between the ages and stages of education , and quality education for all those with special educational needs . If partnerships find the case proven they should consider how the tensions towards fragmentation might be reduced and how they might come to be a better understanding of the responsibilities and common commitments which are essential in any decentralised organisation . The principles which underpin good work force relationships in business apply equally well in the education business . Business understands that continual criticism and complaint are not conducive to high motivation , high productivity and high quality . This is especially so if the criticism is directed against people who are working very hard , doing their best in , often , very difficult circumstances .
Idiom: rock bottom (used idiomatically: yes)
Compiled by MRIB ALL AT SEA Chris 's crossing hits rock bottom YO HO HO me hearties ! You 'll need more than a bottle of rum to get through this disaster of a voyage !
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: yes)
There was a simple logic to the run , which we discovered on our return to barracks . Those who kept up at the front got back to the barracks first , got into the showers first , got dressed first , and were ready downstairs in combat kit for our first singing lesson with Sergeant Moustaine . Those who were slower on the run missed the showers and were late downstairs , so they got kicked and hit by the Corporals . When everybody was present , we ran off to a classroom and copied the words of a song off the blackboard into our notebooks . The song was called ‘ Képi Blanc ’ and its first two lines reflected our life well , .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
Low temperature cook and hold This is for gentle cooking in a dry heat at a temperature of between 30 ° C and 99 ° C . Low temperature proceeds in two phases ; an initial cooking phase in the hot air or combi - steaming mode , followed by a maturing phase in the low temperature cooking mode . The meat becomes very tender during the latter phase , retaining its natural juiciness and reducing weight losses still further . The meat can be kept at serving temperature for a prolonged period without the slightest deterioration of quality .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
I do n't see why , I , Yes , yes , so would I , you know , right in the centre of the action , I thought we had brilliant seats . Thing is though , you get an ov overall picture Yeah , whereas we get like the action right next to them . you can probably be , be facing it and just the articulation 's more .
Idiom: over the moon (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I just ca n't imagine telling them at home . How do you think they would react if I suddenly announced that the new man in my life is the man who ditched my sister five years ago?’ ‘ Well , I can appreciate they 're not exactly going to be over the moon , but this is your life we 're talking about , not theirs.’ ‘ Even so … ’ ‘ Rachel , listen to me .
Idiom: face to face (used idiomatically: yes)
The writer has no access to immediate feedback and simply has to imagine the reader 's reaction . It is interesting to observe the behaviour of individuals when given a choice of conducting a piece of business in person or in writing . Under some circumstances a face - to - face interaction is preferred but , in others , for a variety of different reasons , the individual may prefer to conduct his transaction in writing . Whereas in a spoken interaction the speaker has the advantage of being able to monitor his listener 's minute - by - minute reaction to what he says , he also suffers from the disadvantage of exposing his own feelings ( ' leaking ' ; Ekman & Friesen , 1969 ) and of having to speak clearly and concisely and make immediate response to whichever way his interlocutor reacts . The representation of discourse : texts
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: yes)
A man in a red jacket is standing next to a yellow kayak on some rocks by the ocean
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: no)
Resilient India NEW ~ DELHI – With the world ’s most developed economies reeling under the incubus of what is already being called the Great ~ Recession , India at the beginning of the year took stock and issued a revised estimate for GDP growth in the 2008 - 2009 fiscal year . Its projection came out at a healthy 7.1 % . It is striking that even amid all the doom and gloom assailing world markets , there is no fear of a recession in India .
Idiom: not to put too fine a point on it (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Do we know who his friends were or whether he had any enemies?’ The Bishop was able to cope with this . ‘ I 'm sure you know , Inspector , how impossible it is for even the most committed clergy to avoid incurring — not to put too fine a point on it — hatred . Indeed whole parishes sometimes , I 'm sorry to say , gang up on their clergy . I always warn my men that there 's something of the scapegoat involved in the role of parish priest .
Idiom: jump on the bandwagon (used idiomatically: yes)
Dummies have since caught on as a fashion accessory at raves , but whether the trend was sparked by the emergence of Ketamine , or whether it 's just a way to keep the burning under control , is lost to myth and drug folklore . But trick or trend , Ketamine is beginning to have nasty consequences . There have been several hospitalisations over the past few months , people who entered catatonic states after taking what they believed was E but turned out to be K. Now everybody is jumping on the Ketamine bandwagon . At an upcoming rave in Scotland , the flyer lists ' Special K ' as a featured attraction along with laser flowers , brain machines and gyroscopes . This is particularly ironic given that at least three people were hospitalised after taking Ketamine at the same venue .
Idiom: have no truck with (used idiomatically: yes)
People are brought up to believe that to be successful in science you have first to have your right cerebral hemisphere obliterated ; and the people ( like a lot of teachers ) who perpetrate this nonsense should be fried slowly in rancid yak fat . The initial prejudice against science , for all or any of the above reasons , does not in itself lead to hatred . But it does lead inevitably to ignorance , for you can not understand what you deliberately chose to have no truck with . Ignorance leads to frustration and ( because science is so obviously powerful , both in the depth of its ideas and in its effects on the world ) to fear . Prejudice , ignorance , frustration and fear together lead to hatred .
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
No , said Helen . She rose from the settle . She put the letter in her pocket . In due course she would dispose of it , but not just yet . Think of what was , she told herself , since only that is relevant .
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: yes)
This reluctance has been overcome in some areas by the setting up of ‘ Liaison Committees’i.e . informal committees usually consisting of local representatives from the environmental services committee , officers from the environmental health department , the Health and Safety Executive , local residents and local industry . These committees act as a forum for interested parties to air their grievances and as a result enables a clearer picture to emerge of the extent of any odour problem in the area . It goes without saying their effectiveness is dependent on the co - operation of all the parties involved , in particular local industrialists . ODOUR — A COMMON LAW NUISANCE Any member of the public adversely affected by an odour will naturally seek its abatement .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
Diabetics have a greater than average chance of having a heart ~ attack or stroke . But new research indicates that lowering blood ~ pressure and cholesterol below recommended guidelines seems to reduce these risks . VOA 's Carol ~ Pearson tells us about the study .
Idiom: out and about (used idiomatically: yes)
it 's been quite a nice day really Has it ? if I had n't been stuck in the office all day , if I could of been out and about somewhere it would of been even nicer Be nice yeah , yeah , yeah , you been to the Pentam today ? so , still it 's nearly the weekend , pardon ?
Idiom: take the floor (used idiomatically: yes)
Of course , there is extensive dislocation at headquarters , but our branches will be functioning as normal . ' We are asking staff who have not been given another location to turn up at their nearest branch , where a desk and computer terminal will be provided for them . ' CU has taken a floor in another large City building , Plantation House , for key staff dealing in insurance markets to reduce the risk of disruption . The British management team has been allocated space in Croydon , where Mr Tony Brend , chief executive , chaired emergency meetings over the weekend to try to maintain ' business as usual ' . The executive added : ' I 've no idea what the insurance claim will be .
Idiom: make light of (used idiomatically: yes)
Any analysis of Everton 's season prior to this match provided bleak reading , with a paltry two home victories . indeed , Mo Johnston , recalled for the first time in two months , was the only Everton player in the starting line - up who had managed a goal in front of the Goodison public . But Kendall 's men made light of any suggestion of a crisis with an irresistible first - half display . Just 12 minutes had gone when Stuart Barlow pierced the Chelsea offside trap and chipped a perfect centre to Peter Beardsley . The magical imp lost his marker and guided a far post header past Hitchcock , but Everton 's celebrations were cut short by David Lee 's admirable goal - line clearance .
Idiom: tongue in cheek (used idiomatically: yes)
We 're back off north again to Canada on , with pianist Arthur Ozolins , accompanied by the Toronto SO under Mario Bernardi , offering Rachmaninov 's First Concerto , Dohnáyi 's substantial yet witty Variations on a Nursery Song , and the famous Scherzo from Litolff 's Concerto Symphonique No . 4 ( ) . Ozoloins has a strong musical personality as well as the necessary technique for these works , and together they make up an attractive package if once again(at less than 59 minutes in total ) a somewhat short - weight one . The Dohnányi comes off particularly with the Toronto Orchestra revelling in their tongue - in - cheek opening tutti , and Ozolins successfully keeping a straight face in the solo part : an enjoyable alternative to the classic recording by the composer and Sir Adrian Boult ( on EMI and mid - price ) . It 's good , too to welcome a performance of the Litolff which may well have been over - played in the past but which still deserves an occasional outing . Much over - played these days , on the other hand , is the Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez which turns up along with the Five Preludes for solo guitar by Villa - Lobos , and his lyrical Concerto for guitar and small orchestra ( .
Idiom: unknown quantity (used idiomatically: no)
It is , however , possible that there may be no solutions at all to a system of Diophantine equations ; the assistant could never give 46p change using only the 5p , 10p and 20p coins . Smith 's major contribution to the subject was to show that any system of equations of this sort could be replaced by much simpler equations of the form : each a , divides all its successors . Here the X s are the unknown quantities . Smith gave a procedure for finding them and the a s and b s from the original equations , no matter how many equations nor how many unknown quantities they contain . Because 30 does not divide by 20 one sees immediately that the second equation has no solution for X .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: yes)
A lot of the clientele , she noted , did n't seem to discriminate between the two . There she had seen Jean Cocteau 's Orphee . Under Bernie 's influence she shifted to Beat , black sweaters , black stockings , shades from Woolworth 's for two and sixpence , layers of ripped T shirts shirts and old jeans — fifteen years pre - punk . In Paris fifty years of radical arts movement , Dada , surrealism , danced with American hip and jazz . Unnoticed too in those years , and out of Marx and surrealism , another movement for the 1960s began to take shape .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: yes)
She had helped police investigations into union membership . Cllr Kidd said today : ‘ It is hypocritical . ‘ I can assure them I will go all the way.’ The union has a further right of appeal to an Employment Appeals tribunal on a point of law . The GMB says Cllr Kidd was replaced before it was told of her claim .
Idiom: wear the trousers (used idiomatically: yes)
He 'd told her about Valldemosa too , which was why she was taking this route to the north of the island . Chopin had spent a winter there with his illicit mistress George Sand . The local people had stoned her for wearing trousers in the street and Fernando had ruefully added how things had changed since then — now anything went in Majorca . Ruth was fascinated by the charterhouse where Chopin had composed his ' Funeral March ' . His piano had a single red rose poignantly lying across the keyboard .
Idiom: walk free (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm here 's Tina . It 's Wednesday July fourteenth nineteen ninety three . Police and MPs have strongly criticized an Old Bailey verdict which allowed a teenage vandal to walk free after he 'd admitted stabbing a neighbour to death . The three say they were issued the cash by a bank and did n't know it was phoney . There are claims that more and more people are turning to begging or prostitution in Nottingham because of homelessness .
Idiom: leave someone in the lurch (used idiomatically: yes)
Selina stuns Beeb in Clothes Show walkout PAUL STANLEY TELLY fashion queen Selina Scott has left BBC bosses in the lurch — by quitting the Clothes Show days before a new series . Her shock decision to leave the programme after six years has stunned Beeb bosses . No contract had been signed .
Idiom: new blood (used idiomatically: yes)
But it was a different sort of wildness , if you take my meaning.’ ‘ I think I do . Still , it 's a good thing from the hunt 's point of view that new blood is coming along , surely ? The sheer expense of keeping hounds and so on . The more people contributing , the merrier , I 'd have thought.’
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
We have all had enough . ( The Times 11.10.90 ) His speech was redolent with phrases designed to warm the hearts of the rank and file . He pledged to ‘ sweep the drunken louts off the streets’ . He announced that courts would be given powers to bind parents over for the good behaviour of their children so that they could be ‘ brought face to face with their neglect’ .
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
Sadly , I only ever saw my grandmother a couple of times so I never came to know her . She married into the Tallentire family , who owned the pub called New Spittal in the same area but relinquished the licence because of their Methodist beliefs . But the Tallentires were farmers and used to the physical hardships that go hand - in - hand with life on the land . Not that they did n't have an appreciation of the arts because they were a very musical family . And it was generally accepted that Grandad William Tallentire was capable of making his way in any society , so it really was n't a clear case of Grandma marrying beneath her .
Idiom: blood and guts (used idiomatically: yes)
To others , though , including horror film experts as diverse as Robin Wood and Kim Newman , this would seem the right choice . Both movies relate to the tradition of comic - strip horror . But while RoboCop is basically an entertaining comedy with some ‘ serious’ ideas thrown in for ballast , Day of the Dead , despite grotesque comedy elements , mostly involving blood - and - guts , is fundamentally more serious , an adult rather than an ‘ adult’movie . RoboCop The most striking make - up effects in RoboCop are the death of Officer Murphy ( Peter Weller ) , his reincarnation in a cyborg version as RoboCop , and the ‘ Melting Man’ , into which the especially unsympathetic gangster Emil ( Paul McCrane ) changes very shortly before his death .
Idiom: turn heads (used idiomatically: yes)
I have decided . ' ' And ? ' Yuan turned his head , looking across at his father . Li Shai Tung sat there , his feet spread , the cane resting against one knee . Yuan could see his dead brother , Han Ch'in in that posture of his father 's .
Idiom: rare bird (used idiomatically: yes)
And there were her looks , nobody could forget them , nobody except herself ; she never did a thing about them , as women do these days , she never gave a damn : as my father used to say , she wears her beauty lightly . Oh , she was an insider in London , she belonged . At the same time she was a foreigner , a foreigner with privileges , a rare bird — catch Constanza not having the best of both worlds . ‘ It was the time when so much began , the new writing , painting , the ballet coming to London . … She had two years , in the centre of it .
Idiom: go down the pan (used idiomatically: yes)
All that energy , the hope of tangible improvements in the way daily work is carried out . Which makes the documentation all the more poignant when you know the project did not get anywhere . Oh yes , they are still going down the pan , to the tune of £ 1 billion a year in the UK , according to the Management Consultancies Association . That is the figure it has come up with , based on a survey of chief executives . Apparently this level of failure in major projects to achieve expectations extends across all sectors of the economy and is especially prevalent in ‘ soft’ projects such as the development of new IT ( ah ! that 's where DP went ! ) systems and organisational change .
Idiom: follow in someone's footsteps (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Perhaps they will just want to be there anyway . ‘ They have tried to lead normal lives since the girls disappeared , but they 've been under great stress and anxiety.’ Simon 's own globe - trotting in Australia , Indonesia and Thailand may have spurred his sister to quit her job in a London pizza restaurant and follow in his footsteps . ‘ I wrote to her often and we spoke on the phone during my travels,’ he said . ‘ I am sure it was my accounts of my experiences which set her off on the same route .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: yes)
With plea in mitigation , you 're trying to minimize the sentence , within realistic boundaries . Argument is concise and to the point . One of the other things about those two that were wrong was that they rambled , they were all over the place , there was no conciseness , no clarity to them . Main points are effective . Again , those two that were wrong were all over the place and not an effective sequence .
Idiom: out of the woods (used idiomatically: no)
Well why should she ? I expect she had plenty of others . Not in the war you dolt , Thérèse said : they had to make shoes out of wood and cork , Victorine said so . Léonie looked at her cousin with satisfaction . The bow trailed in her untidy hair , her face and arms were smudged with dust , the skirt of her dress was torn .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
On this third trick , East plays the Ace while West throws away a small Heart . East returns the King of Clubs . It is now time to take stock of this hand . We have one Heart trick , two Diamond tricks , one Club trick , and two clear Spade tricks , making a total of six — well short of the required total of nine . As West has 6 Hearts , he is likely to be short in all the other suits , and with East returning the King of Clubs , there is a suggestion that he has a fairly long suit .
Idiom: against the grain (used idiomatically: yes)
And when she had helped Carole to put Emma and Sophie to bed she had n't been able to prevent tears coming to her eyes while she had listened to them solemnly saying their prayers . It was then Laura had realised that , however difficult it might be , she would make any sacrifice in order for the twins to be as happy and contented as possible . So , as much as it went against the grain , she knew she had no alternative but to fit in with Ross 's plans . Ross ! Where was the damn man ?
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: no)
By shutting Neddy down , Mr Lamont put Mr Heseltine in his place . By launching the new forum Mr Heseltine is getting his own back on the now weakened Mr Lamont . The DTI still has a long way to go before it can seriously contest the Treasury 's hegemony over matters economic . But , while Mr Heseltine remains its boss , no chancellor will sleep easy in his bed . Labour pains