Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: and then some (used idiomatically: yes)
Dancing had been suggested but it would have bust the spell , and moves by Mallachy and Rory to get them off alone were put down with spiteful glee , accepted with good humour . But both were kissed beside the black car then the green , and Karen felt a stirring of regret that she 'd be off to Aunt Jane 's and the lonely wind - blown beaches . The following night was agreed as a farewell binge , details to be arranged after they 'd rendezvoused , but possibly with a meal and then some bopping afterwards . It had been a terrific evening . ‘ Did you see that slimy bastard of a cousin of mine?’ said Jessica , as they went through their undressing routine back at the house .
Idiom: take it easy (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ At parties , if people ask what you 've been doing and you tell them that you 've just been around the world , it stops the conversationd ead.’ One good reason , if you need one , for not going around the world . Waiting games with Rembrandt and Vermeer : Brian Cathcart learns how to take it easy on a trip to The Hague , our last Channel Hop By BRIAN CATHCART MANANA should be a Dutch word .
Idiom: on the game (used idiomatically: yes)
Squash : Impatience halts Wapnick 's run By D J Rutnagur JUDGING by his debut in the Hi - Tec British Open Championships yesterday , Craig Wapnick , 21 , of South Africa , is poised to make a big impact on the game . Having made his way into the main draw via six rounds in the preliminary and qualifying competitions , he fell just short of a major upset in the first round proper . Only lack of experience deprived Wapnick , based in Switzerland and ranked No 103 in the world , of victory over the ninth seed , Rodney Eyles , in a thrilling match lasting 74 minutes .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
The crowd controls the meeting , practically the only functions of the speaker being to keep order by ringing a little bell , and to recognise speakers .
Idiom: streets ahead (used idiomatically: yes)
Street - wise and professional , his profession is to get the person on the street to know his product , buy his product and accept his product . His profession is to recruit the best person on the street to produce his product , to sell his product . His profession is to be streets ahead of the competition . His profession is to profit from the person in the street . The Profitboss is a professional every minute of the day .
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
Commuters to the capital obviously decided to take a long weekend or were put up in hotels overnight by their employers , said a spokesman . The 68,000-member Rail , Maritime and Transport Union called the strike after British Rail refused to give a pledge that there will be no compulsory redundancies . The union , which is currently coming to terms with 7,000 job losses among railway workers , accused BR bosses of going back on guarantees made in 1984 . East Anglian RMT spokesman Peter King said BR employees were prepared to move from one part of the country to another to avoid compulsory redundancies . ‘ We are not looking for jobs for life , just a sensible arrangement,’ he said .
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: no)
There should be new types of pavement design and extra research into the relative costs of concrete and bitumen roads . Green light for Belvoir The SURPRISE ministerial announcement last weekend to allow mining close to the Vale of Belvoir in Leicestershire means that the plan for a new pit at Ashfordby will get the green light before the contentious issue of where to put the mounds of unsightly spoil that the pit will produce has been settled . Two working parties are due to report this summer on the issue . They are likely to support back - stowing — that is putting the spoil back in the ground .
Idiom: claim to fame (used idiomatically: yes)
In the Dawnay chapel on the south side is a statue of Viscount Downe made by Chantry and an Easter sepulchre . The east window of this chapel contains the only remaining fragments of 14th century glass . Near the chancel arch is a niche dedicated to St Sitha — her only claim to fame , according to local tradition , is that she was martyred , her head was cut off ‘ and she picked it up and ran three miles to the nearby ( sic ! ) church to warn the other Christians.’ Not surprisingly the only other shrine to her is in Bradford Cathedral . Some say Sitha is a corruption of Etheldreds , sister to the Abbess Hilda of Whitby , but this seems to be wishful thinking .
Idiom: from pillar to post (used idiomatically: yes)
The Rev Bill Harper has championed the cause of the 260 pensioners involved , but is disappointed that the Prime Minister has not replied to his letter pleading for help . County councillors confirmed this week that the homes will close , blaming competition from private homes , vacant places and the amount of investment needed in council homes . Mr Harper , from Richmond , North Yorkshire , says his letter has been sent from ‘ pillar to post ’ from Downing Street to the Department of Environment and on to the Health Department without a word from Mr Major . Mr Harper , who visits residents in some of the homes , said : ‘ What buck passing . Why does n't the Prime Minister just come clean with his response ?
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: yes)
The Court of Appeal made it clear in Janata Bank v Ahmed ( 1981 ) that this is certainly a possibility . Even if nothing is said specifically , there is an implied term in your employment contract that you owe a duty to exercise reasonable care and skill in carrying out your job . A High Court judgment ordering Mr Ahmed , a former assistant general manager of a bank , to compensate his former employers to the tune of more than £ 30,000 in respect of losses caused by his negligence , was therefore upheld . Before you have too many sleepless nights , it is worth noting Lord Justice Ackner 's comment that , in practice , employers are more likely to use the sanction of dismissal than a High Court writ . He added :
Idiom: on the game (used idiomatically: yes)
If Baxter 's ‘ gallus’ personality was his trademark it was also the seeds of his downfall . The warning signs were written large one famous night in Vienna in December 1964 . With Rangers two goals up , Baxter was stamping his mazy authority on the game . At times his ball play bordered on creative terrorism as he taunted the Austrian opposition ; it was Wembley envisaged , but this time disaster struck . Baxter 's right shinbone was broken after a clash with Rapide Vienna 's tough centre - half Skocik .
Idiom: save someone's skin (used idiomatically: yes)
Our political correspondent John Sople , reports from Westminster . For John Prescot today , not a discrete silence while waiting for the leader 's call , he was making it clear that he wanted a swap to one of the top economic jobs . And having saved John Smith 's skin at the Labour party Conference , with his rumbustious performance in the one member , one vote debate , Mr Prescot knew he was in a position to call in his debts . But tonight the new employment spokesman is putting a rather more modest gloss on it . Well I did n't demand job , nobody demands of John Smith .
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: yes)
Real supporters too worry that the disarray and the division in the Government is so clearly mirrored in the Opposition . The biggest mistake Smith made was to reveal himself ' relaxed ' in the face of Bryan Gould 's early skirmishes over devaluation and Europe . It was as green a light as you could get for the never - ending demands for U - turns from Mr Gould , followed by several Shadow Cabinet colleagues . The relaxation period was too long , the precedent set a bad one . One of Mr Gould 's followers , health spokesman David Blunkett , urges Labour not to go for the unity of the graveyard .
Idiom: in the saddle (used idiomatically: no)
On the other side of the road an opening had been dug and Mr Stokill rode through . I slithered in his wake , looking up hopelessly at the great smooth wilderness rearing above us . Mr Stokill turned in the saddle . " Get haud on t'tail , " he said . " I beg your pardon ? "
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: no)
But , if so , the fact that twins with a left hander in their immediate family showed a significantly smaller ear asymmetry ( and lower overall score ) than twins without a family history of sinistrality is not readily explained , at least within traditional Mendelian models of inheritance . DOMINANCE PROPORTIONS The question arises as to the relative proportions of left and right handers in the general population with left sided , right sided and bilateral speech representation . The techniques used with normal subjects give estimates that do not closely correspond to those derived from the clinical literature . For example , of a group of normal right handers as many as 15 per cent usually fail to show a right ear advantage on a verbal dichotic test ( Bryden , 1978 ) .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
and so I dreamed backwards : first I woke in the dark scraping my knuckles on board and mould . I remember half listening or reading in the shadow of a fire ;
Idiom: kiss of death (used idiomatically: yes)
Meanwhile Protestant evangelists , led by the inflexible Leslie Huben ( John Lithgow ) and his wife Andy ( Daryl Hannah ) , plan to revive a mission abandoned by their Catholic rivals . Martin Quarrier ( Aidan Quinn ) is sympathetic to the Indian culture ; his unhappy wife , Hazel ( Kathy Bates ) , loathes the forest and everything in it . Privation and danger slowly expose the weakness , misery and bad faith of the whites ; for the Indians , however , their presence becomes — literally — the kiss of death . This is not a film for those in search of easy entertainment or simple dispositions of good and evil . Its meandering length sacrifices narrative pace in favour of character development .
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
' Ah , ' said Joe Connors , a dark little man who reached forward with spatulate fingers for the corkscrew , ' There 's only a few of us left . ' They began to make a head count , lingering over the names with relish , proud of being survivors . Carbery took a pack of cards out of his pocket and dealt them for Twenty - five . He tilted his head as he dealt , to keep the smoke that curled up from his cigarette out of his eyes . ' I suppose Mike out there will be the next to go , ' he said in a pleasant conversational tone .
Idiom: night and day (used idiomatically: no)
Take time out to relax by the pond ; a cool refuge on hot , balmy days of late summer Water and oxygen levels can drop rapidly in hot weather . Leave pumped water to run night and day to increase oxygen content ; add more water if needed . Lift and divide large clumps of pond plants and marginals . Clean biological filters if they are dirty , but avoid flushing out too many of the biological organisms which do the work .
Idiom: all along (used idiomatically: yes)
" It 's no use talking to the ward stall , they 're so overworked , poor dears , they ca n't tell one case from another ! " The ward sister had actually drawn her aside and asked her whether she did not think it would be a good idea to let her husband see his children more often in the future . Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . Her family , applied to , began to scour the countryside for a suitable house , within reasonable commuting distance from London , in good condition , and recently decorated , so that she could move Richard straight there as soon as he was discharged from hospital . Nenna felt that she could have made a better hand at answering Louise if only Edward had taken the trouble to return her purse .
Idiom: anything goes (used idiomatically: yes)
Perhaps i i it 'll encourage us to look for a shorter route through to the , the , the solution . But th the problem is all the shortcuts are g gon na reduce the quality of service we give to the client . Like at the moment if there 's anything goes wrong with possessions , it really ought to be the project manager sorting it out . Yes . Exactly .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: no)
Yes , yes , yes . He must have been aware of that . But she was under his , er , he was under her influence , she was a domineering woman , and erm , she was a stronger character than he was , and she thought she could erm , get away with it , and she did n't . She thought , she thought she be Queen consort . Yeah .
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
What a perplexing puzzler like Puzznic'll do to his brain , then , is a mystery . It may well explode — fingers crossed ! The Hit Squad are back , and back with a vengeance with this great conversion of Taito 's cracking coin - op ! Puzznic is destined to become an all - time classic in the Tetris / Klax mould , and no serious puzzle - player should be without it . As with most puzzlies , your task is stupefyingly simple .
Idiom: cross my heart (used idiomatically: yes)
The same litany took place every Sunday . Dad Tam : " You promise me you will never tell anybody " til " am deed that I stood for the man who made that statue . " I duly promised crossed my heart and — spat which was the custom of small boys at the time — and I never did break that promise to Dad Tam whilst he lived , and to this day I believe in my heart that the figure overlooking Princes Street Gardens is in the image of my father , complete with a handsome Kitchener moustache . My mother told her version . Soon after they married my father was out of work ( he was a house painter ) .
Idiom: do a runner (used idiomatically: yes)
Gazzer was in bright light , down by the entrance and Mane could see every move he made . If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit . But she was busy watching his feet , waiting for him to do a runner . ‘ Is she all right ? Where is she ?
Idiom: food for thought (used idiomatically: yes)
But it still was n't that bad … Peter Wright has done an admirable job and not just in the set scrum . He is likely to be tested at Twickenham as never before , but a really good game there could even give the Lions ' selectors food for thought . Props who can play on either head can be doubly useful on a bruising tour . If , perish the thought , Scotland were scarcely to win a ball from the lineout at Twickenham , this pack would probably still finish the championship having won more possession from that set - piece than any Scotland pack in living memory .
Idiom: when all is said and done (used idiomatically: yes)
Mother Francis the celibate nun who had never thought she could know the joy of seeing a child grow up in her care had loved Eve in a way that might well have made her blind to the feelings and sensitivities of other people . Mother General and Mother Clare were indeed right , it would have been preferential treatment to have financed Eve 's university education from the convent funds . But when all was said and done , Mother Francis wished she could be sure that they would treat Eve well up in Mother Clare 's convent . St Mary 's had always been a home for Eve ; the fear was that she might find the sister house in Dublin more like an institution , and worse still she might find her own role - there not that of an honoured daughter , but more that of a maid . When Benny and Eve came out of Healy 's Hotel , they saw Sean Walsh watching them from the doorway of Hogan 's across the street .
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
IXI AGREES TO SELL OUT TO SANTA CRUZ OPERATION After the Cambridge , UK company had been pursued by a couple of unwanted suitors , Santa Cruz Operation Inc last week stepped in and took high - flying IXI Ltd out of the loop . No cash changed hands and the friendly acquisition was completed via a stock swap arrangement between the two privately held firms under US accounting rules . Marriage between Unix - on - Intel house Santa Cruz and the British graphical front - end specialist was supported by all shareholders on both sides — including SCO board member Microsoft Corp — and blessed by IX OEMs which include Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , Digital Equipment Corp , IBM Corp , ICL Plc , NCR Corp , NEC Corp and Unisys Corp. Observers see the acquisition as a logical match , and — following Novell Inc 's planned acquisition of Unix System Labs — evidence of further consolidation in the Unix industry , this time around the desktop .
Idiom: once and for all (used idiomatically: yes)
But Packer 's difficulties are worth recognising because not only do they reveal something of the cultural context within which Auerbach 's work signifies , they also typify — albeit unconsciously — the burden of historiography and the demands of convention in writing about anything that purports to be a portrait . Artist 's intention is one of the criteria for the portrait posited by historians and theorists . Here we have a living artist so surely , it seems , this can be settled once and for all . But the case of Auerbach merely serves to illustrate how ill - founded the criterion is . Refusing all but the most exceptional interview , Auerbach himself insists on the autonomy of the work .
Idiom: free and easy (used idiomatically: yes)
But now , in her need . she noticed every moment with Lucy , pictured her , listened to the memory of her voice . The time they shared became special now , where before they had been free and easy . Love added uncertainty , love lavished all her extravagant colours and textures . The day before Jay 's birthday , Lucy said , ‘ Let 's go somewhere different — Islington .
Idiom: stroke of luck (used idiomatically: yes)
Then , since we know we are intelligent enough to discuss the question , we know that Earth must be that one planet . Now suppose that the origin of life , and the origin of intelligence given that life is there , are both highly improbable events . Then the probability of any one planet , such as Earth , enjoying both strokes of luck is the product of the two low probabilities , and this is a far smaller probability . It is as though , in our theory of how we came to exist , we are allowed to postulate a certain ration of luck . This ration has , as its upper limit , the number of eligible planets in the universe .
Idiom: for the time being (used idiomatically: yes)
He of course was the man of the match on th Saturday , he sat here for the interview clutching the bottle of champagne that the club patrons had awarded to him for his performance . Those are the two players who definitely from a confidence point of view need to score . Okay Colin , thanks for the time being . Twenty two minutes after seven o'clock , here 's the Bee Gees and Staying Alive . Saturday Night Fever of course , the Bee Gees and Staying Alive , twenty six minutes after seven o'clock .
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: yes)
Peace will come after the storm . RELATIONSHIPS THOSE three major eclipses can be held responsible for the tremendous highs and lows in your love life this year . The people that we fall in love with , form an emotional bond with or marry are an integral part of our destiny . That is why there is often a sense of knowing that person already .
Idiom: larger than life (used idiomatically: yes)
Top : the International check out a temple . Bottom : Wildski ( left ) and Lindy Layton Performing at Tokyo 's Club Quatro , Wildski is truly an over - the - top , larger - than - life man who bounded through the Japanese experience picking up enough words and phrases to cobble together an Oriental rap which had the crowd beaming from ear to ear . Wildski decided that Tokyo was the hat capital of the world and proceeded to buy 14 different Kangol varieties . One particular tartan hat was so large even Russ Abbot might have baulked at it .
Idiom: rock bottom (used idiomatically: yes)
Without renewal , decay becomes irredeemable . Decayed environments invite bulldozers and wholesale demolition — antithesis of the process of replacement over generations that gives so many townscapes in Britain their appeal . Decay lowers morale in communities , even to rock - bottom , equating with levels of grinding poverty — inescapable , and classic breeding ground for so much anti - social behaviour including crime . Structures of management and finance devised to maintain environments and institutions may not be the same as are needed to oversee renewal . Different attitudes are required , capable of rising above and not being muddled by the pressing detail of daily affairs , bringing broad experience and greater discrimination to bear on planning and development issues .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Austria - Hungary , Britain , and France , however , viewed with alarm the dramatic increase in Russian influence in the Balkans which the treaty implied . At the Congress of Berlin Russia was compelled to accept revised peace terms . This was felt at home to be a major humiliation , and the government found itself under fire from the whole spectrum of public opinion . The diplomatic débâcle strengthened the hands of ministers who urged that the fierce police measures taken against sedition during 1879 should be combined with efforts to conciliate less intransigent critics . In January 1880 General M. T. Loris - Melikov , a hero of the Turkish War , took charge of the government , first as head of an emergency Special Administrative Commission and , from August , as Minister of Internal Affairs .
Idiom: rough and ready (used idiomatically: yes)
I 'm rather fond of Edwardian tastes myself , but sadly , I do n't live in the type of property where it 's possible to go berserk recreating the rich style of that bygone age . Although I 'm strongly against what can only be described as the ‘ bastardisation’ of a property , a little out - of - keeping decor is often unavoidable unless you restrict yourself to a very limited range of choice . Few of us would want cream distemper with rough and ready dark graining — except perhaps in a listed building or outside privy . The problem with fashions is permanency . If you 're incontrovertibly hooked on a particular style , you wo n't be deterred by the changing face of fashion .
Idiom: in the pink (used idiomatically: no)
The upper fish which is the male , has unfortunately suffered some fin damage to the caudal fin which is normally ' lyretailed ' . MARINE INFORMATION In the PINK ! Incongruously sharing the family Serranidae are large and aggressive groupers , and the beautiful little basslets , popularly referred to as ' Anthias ' . MAX GIBBS looks at some Pseudanthias species as well as other Fairy Basslets .
Idiom: with a will (used idiomatically: no)
Spreadsheets are primarily for analysis — or so I am constantly being told — but I have always had a problem reconciling that with what - if constructions . Inevitably I end up with three different files , one showing the worst case scenario , one showing what I really expect to happen , and one showing the absolute best I could ever hope for . With the best will in the world , this kind of multiple file ( or great tracts of copying on one spreadsheet ) can at bet lead to confusion , and at worst be totally inaccurate and misleading . Excel 4 has the answer to my prayers in the Scenario Manager . Its use is very simple — you tell the manager which cells hold the values you want to change , and they 're added to the scenario , which you name ( I tend to go for Disaster , Real and Brill — all self explanatory ) .