Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in my book (used idiomatically: no)
Wh what , well , I , I would n't say just looking similar , I would say additionally looking , but , but in the , in the early days the erm , and I 'll be saying something about this in the , in the lectures , bu but just briefly , that you could you could say there were phases in psychoanalysis , the early days , before both of us were born you were here , the , the aim when the method was , the aim was to release the unconscious , bring it to the surface , and that was regarded as more or less enough . Analyses in those days were short by modern standards . There 's an example in my book , with one that only lasted six weeks , for example , which is astonishing by modern standards . After World War One , and especially by the nineteen thirties , the , the purview of psychoanalysis , as it were , had , had enlarged to include the ego , as we saw , and so , so what happened then was , the structure of the ego was explored and not just the repressions . In other words , it was the agencies that carried out the repressions that were analyzed , as well as the repressions themselves .
Idiom: tongue in cheek (used idiomatically: yes)
( Schlesinger had made the right decision , because The April Fools , finally directed by Stuart Rosenberg , was a real failure . ) Waldo Salt , who wrote the completed screenplay of Midnight Cowboy , had been blacklisted in 1951 after refusing to testify on Communist affiliations before the HUAC . His best writing credits were the sentimental Shopworn Angel ( 1938 ) , the romantic comedy - drama Rachel and the Stranger ( 1948 ) , and the tongue - in - the - cheek Burt Lancaster swashbuckler The Flame and the Arrow ( 1950 ) . It was not until the early sixties that he was able to resume his film career , but his post - blacklist work had been undistinguished by two top - heavy Yul Brynner spectacles , Taras Bulba ( 1962 ) and Flight from Ashiya ( 1964 ) . Midnight Cowboy was to give him his first chance in over fifteen years to regain respect in the business .
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: yes)
… The right hand pulling on a not very positive lay - off and the left gripping a tenuous pinch , I moved up , expecting friction on the slab above to take me to a small shelf . Two good pieces of gear had encouraged me to make the move , but once started there was nothing for 15 feet . Chalk on the lay - off indicated this was probably the right line , though it looked tricky for HVS . Once on the slab my boots failed to bite .
Idiom: take a bow (used idiomatically: yes)
' Solid hit ! ' Kadan crowed . Jehan took the bow out of Alexei 's hands . ' Someone give me an arrow . ' He drew the string halfway back , then let it out again .
Idiom: follow suit (used idiomatically: yes)
The activities of competitors have an important bearing on pricing decisions . The most obvious example is when a competitor raises or lowers his prices . If your product can offer no particular advantages over his , then if he drops his price , you will have to follow suit . If , on the other hand , you can offer other advantages in your marketing mix , there may be no pressure at all to reduce your price . If a competitor raises his price , perhaps because of rising costs , it may be possible to hold yours steady , provided you can contain your own rising costs .
Idiom: no time like the present (used idiomatically: yes)
' Wanna try , buster ? ' ' Whenever you like , Nanny . ' ' No time like the present . ' She 'd called his bluff . She took his arm firmly , just above the elbow , and jerked him halfway off his stool .
Idiom: turn a blind eye (used idiomatically: yes)
Every night you had association , every day exercise . At Christmas some of the girls nicked some apples and made apple wine . The staff knew what was going on but they turned a blind eye . I was on Fox House , then on Mellanby . Fox is for all pregnant women and Mellanby for women over six months pregnant and mothers and babies .
Idiom: tie the knot (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ The home videos would allow the whole family to have a good look at our cars but in the relaxing atmosphere of their own homes.’ ‘ I do again’ LOVEBIRDS Alan and Jennifer Tyler tied the knot again — a year to the day after they separated . The couple , who divorced four months ago after 16 years of marriage , just ‘ could n't live apart’ . Jennifer , of Dewsbury , Yorks , said : ‘ As soon as we divorced we both realised we 'd made a mistake.’
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
They have the lambs and the people in Southern Europe , who traditionally did without when their own supplies dried up , can afford them . That sounds like a pretty fair exchange . New ground is being broken in Northern Europe too . Unlike France , where lamb is still , in spite of its easy availability , regarded as a prince 's dish , the Germans think of it as something else . In fact , national memories of wartime boiled mutton are still so strong that most Germans ca n't look at sheepmeat , even prime lamb , without searching for a dog 's bowl to put it in .
Idiom: speak of the devil (used idiomatically: yes)
So I do n't think that actually ca n't really miss her , such a fat cow . Speak of the devil Oh sit yourself down you fat cow . Steph any cards ?
Idiom: home and dry (used idiomatically: yes)
Arsenal won their first five matches and did not lose until the tenth . Sheffield Wednesday and Aston Villa challenged hard , but fell away in the spring . Arsenal were home and dry . New records had been set with almost every triumph Chapman had ever engineered , but none equalled those of Arsenal 's 1931 Championship . Not only were Arsenal the first southern club to win the title , but their 66 points were six better than the previous high of Sheffield Wednesday the year before : 28 out of 42 games were won , only four lost , and wins , draws and losses were evenly divided between home and away ; the goals total , 127 , was one less than Aston Villa 's all - time high of the same year .
Idiom: rough and ready (used idiomatically: yes)
Customs manufactured before the humbucking age feature two sorts of pickup on the same guitar : a P90 by the bridge , and an Alnico by the neck — a really old - fashioned looking thing , with huge great rectangular polepieces . But you want to try these pickups before you dismiss them out of hand . The P90 might be rough and ready but it 's mind - bogglingly powerful ; the problem is not getting Billy Gibbons harmonics , but avoiding them . And the Alnico pickup sounds huge , almost like a Stratocaster neck pickup on steroids and three steaks a day . In fact it 's very similar indeed to a Strat pickup , since each of the six polepieces is an individual Alnico - V magnet .
Idiom: in your dreams (used idiomatically: yes)
Does your heart beat so loudly sometimes that you feel the whole world can hear it ? Can you bear it , the thought of him going away ? Do you see him in your dreams ? " " Silly goose , you 're just a child . " She smiles at me .
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
One way to tackle these is to recall the words of musicians who were disturbed by unitary control . Quite a lot of written opinion is found about those ‘ up front , albeit often prescriptive or satirical . Rarely was the voice of the rank and file committed to paper . Moritz Hauptmann ( 1792 - 1868 ) played the violin at Dresden ( 1812 ) and Kassel ( 1822 ) : The cursed little white stick of wood always did annoy me , and when I see it domineering over the whole orchestra , music departs from me …
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: yes)
By the time we finish eating , I am quite drunk and feeling sad . We pull on our coats with bleary yanks as the alcohol works its universal spell , and bump out the door . Down to the beach to see the oil rigs at sea . You can not feel alone with a horizon drenched with technology . The final pull of day is seduced away to another gathering .
Idiom: sit on the fence (used idiomatically: yes)
Public schools have had hundreds of years to monopolize the best combinations of stripes , and T M Lewin & Sons will happily sell you anything you request by name — that you know what to ask for usually being deemed proof enough that you are entitled to it . Colour is , of course , crucial . Yellow sits on the fence between the powerful punches of red and true - blue ; curiously , green ties are often associated with failure . Most popular among the rich is the Hermès tie , in any of its myriad minuscule equestrian patternings . It is a mark that one has arrived .
Idiom: fly off the handle (used idiomatically: yes)
When the doors were sold Dad went out and bought soap boxes , orange boxes , even smelly fish boxes to use , and Mum was happy with money coming in again . He always said he did best when I was with him . One day Frankie was chopping a particularly springy orange box when suddenly the head flew off the handle and cracked our only mirror . ‘ Now look what yer've done!’ yelled Mum . ‘ Another bloody seven years’ bad luck!’
Idiom: set eyes on (used idiomatically: yes)
You are pretty as a picture and we would not want you drawing attention to yourself , would we!’ Joan meekly obeyed . What Alianor had failed to realize was that , under the sombre cloak , she was wearing a new and quite beautiful pale - pink gown trimmed with dark fur — a gown such as few maidservants would set eyes on in a lifetime , much less wear . Her waist defined by a gold chain girdle , she was wearing Edward 's ring on a gold chain around her neck . Outwardly , as Alianor saw her , she gave the appearance of a servant — but inwardly , to Joan herself , she was a damsel going to meet her lover .
Idiom: meat and potatoes (used idiomatically: yes)
Good , then , but who is this man ? Maybe we should look into the mind of this 37 year - old upstart , this down - home , regular guy . Meat and potatoes , not scallops and prawns . Here goes , then . Levi has just won the Canadian Open at the Glen Abbey Golf Club near Toronto last September , the final win of his magnificent season .
Idiom: not give a fig (used idiomatically: yes)
' Watkin the dung - collector , ' he advised , ' takes his duties as church warden most seriously . He has his own thoughts in the matter . ' ' I do n't give a fig for what Watkin says ! ' Cecily had snapped . ' I could tell you a lot about Watkin , Father ! ' ,
Idiom: off the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
what 's more I 'm convinced it and you can guarantee that you still a human error even though you know how to do it , and we can not guarantee that you 'll do it so it , so it is , the , it is very important that nobody takes anything off the shelf automatically assume Mind you no point in It does matter we really need to know whether to make necessary phone calls
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
Jamie would flatly refuse . That leaves only one other person . ' He turned his dark head in time to see the colour drain from her face as her green eyes filled with fear and excitement . ' You 'll have to come with me to Auckland for three days , Rachel . ' She struggled not to run screaming from the office , seeing the trip ahead , knowing what would happen , that desire , that overpowering excitement flaring up between them in a hotel bedroom somewhere on the other side of the world , dragging her deeper into a relationship that was already tearing her to pieces .
Idiom: close to home (used idiomatically: yes)
By Georgie Anne Geyer . Little , Brown ; 445 pages ; $ 22.95 and £ 14.95 THE last bogeyman but five or six , in that line of third - world menaces who give the United States a sense of purpose , lives uncomfortably close to home . Fidel Castro is no far - distant Arab , but rules an island only 90 miles from Key West , on what might have been home ground had politics gone slightly differently less than a century ago . When they snapped up the fragments of Spain 's Caribbean empire , the Americans took Puerto Rico as a colony and subsidised it lavishly .
Idiom: out of order (used idiomatically: yes)
Oh sorry . A slight aberration . I know I know I 'm taking it out of order but rather than wait until we get there , this has been raised , why ca n't we deal with it now ? It does seem to me that criterion eleven erm is has already been covered erm by implication in items er criteria two er and probably three as well . And I I do n't see there is a need for an additional reference to those policies , it seems to me that erm the references to in migration pressures are correct as a consideration erm if you like as a erm numerical basis in terms of assessing what have been made in the county .
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: no)
way round did n't I ? I know . When the green light comes on again that means it 's done does n't it ? Yep . Right .
Idiom: to the hilt (used idiomatically: yes)
And with good reason , too , for Harry had unsheathed the dagger . It was like a dream that Sam could neither halt nor awake from : the gulls were screaming overhead and the rollers were thundering up against the Gribbin . The blade was going in to its hilt , in , and in again , and the blood was spreading out over the priest 's hairless chest . He heard his own voice shout : " O dear Lord ! No !
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
The thought that Ace could go bad rankled him for some reason , and he mouthed a silent prayer that her judgment would remain sound . Stray shots buzzing all around , Ace threw herself behind a large fallen stalactite a few yards from the sandbags , just as her ammunition ran out . Shouldering the gun in the sure knowledge that the Doctor would be seriously pissed off if she let it fall into local hands in this time zone , she drew the grenade from her pockets , and poked her head up just long enough to check the distance . Myriad chips of shattered stalactite flew in her face as the Germans opened fire on her position . With clenched teeth , Ace pulled the pins on the grenades , paused for a couple of heartbeats , and hurled them over at the German position .
Idiom: get it up (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah as Right . opposed to the forty in the U K so we 've got to get it up a bit . Erm but I 've just thought , you know , get this away , let him get you know , buy them , go in at say forty percent as an O E margin A similar sized U K customer
Idiom: turn the corner (used idiomatically: yes)
Rosewater ! Stuff for kissing and cooing over , side by side , here , in my house , how dare you ? You women are all the same— a man just has to turn the corner of the street and the next thing , they 're all eyes and lips and tongue and sucking me’— he tripped , changed ‘ sucking him towards them . Whirlwinds , water spouts , twisting and entangling and spinning us to destruction . You are nothing but a … .’
Idiom: hang by a thread (used idiomatically: yes)
IF ONE HAD been going to cast anyone in the title role of a movie called Little Big Man , there would not have been many actors in Hollywood one could have thought of besides Dustin Hoffman . ( This was a few years before little actors such as Al Pacino , Richard Dreyfuss or Dudley Moore became big . ) The Western was in its dying throes , but Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969 kept it hanging on by a thread . Director Arthur Penn had bought the rights to the Thomas Berger novel Little Big Man in 1965 , and MGM had originally planned to produce it as a multimillion - dollar epic before the deal fell through . In June 1969 , Cinema Center Films agreed to finance the film , and Jack Richardson , who had started to write the screenplay , was replaced by Calder Willingham ( who co - wrote The Graduate ) .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ You are correct,’ Miss Fergusson replied , with a little nod . ‘ People like my father would not agree , of course . They would tell us that such comparisons are all hot air . Literally.’ She gave a pursed smile and Miss Logan , with an enquiring glance , invited her to continue .
Idiom: prodigal son (used idiomatically: yes)
One could really argue that in fact there are four parables there really . Because you 've got the the er the story , the account of the er , the lost sheep , you 've got the lost coin , you 've also got the er parable or the story of the lost , the prodigal son , but you also have the second part of that which is almost a separate story of , the son who had not gone into the far country . But in a sense it does n't really matter whether it 's one parable , whether it 's three parables , or whether it 's four parables , it 's what Jesus was trying to teach to these people , and over these next three weeks , we 're gon na be looking at these three , er illustrations that Jesus uses . Again , we see , that one of the very important truths that comes out of this is that people matter to God .
Idiom: shoot the breeze (used idiomatically: yes)
Against the cliff they are figures in a landscape painted in watercolour by some Victorian with grandiose ideas about nature and the sublime . It pulls at the heart . Here they are shooting the breeze , Fairfax in his outmoded but perfectly cut clothes , the laibon in a dark blue shift and a cape of fur , with ear lobes that contain three or four little bead earrings and a silver wire holding a small copper bell . As he gestures , his robe slips and I can see his penis , which is inky black and purplish towards the ( circumcized ) tip . It is very long .
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: yes)
His visions of moral order in biology and of the superior integrity of sap , expressed in a thin , precise style like the print of a hopping bird in snow , struck her as impossible to live with . But , on the face of it , the perfect little couplets about twigs and foxes that he wrung out of his gargantuan walks justified the form of their lives as fully in her eyes as in his . She knew everything he had written by heart . The sound of her repeating a line back at him drove him mad . ‘ Have some more stew,’ she said one evening .
Idiom: close ranks (used idiomatically: yes)
According to hearsay , Bez had managed to break his arm — twice ; Shaun was there in body but his head was elsewhere ; and there were persistent rumours of rifts between the pair and the rest of the band , who just wanted to get their heads down and get on with work rather than get on one . Ryder returned home alone to get his shit together , eventually laying down the vocals on his own in the rather less glamorous surroundings of Surrey . When this episode is mentioned to PD and Paul , they merely shrug their shoulders and close ranks . ‘ This time round,’ snorts Paul protectively , ‘ the press could n't even get the name of the studio right . They got the wrong island , wrong producers , so what do they know , going on about these mad drug stories and us not getting our shit together ?
Idiom: play for time (used idiomatically: no)
When they announced that Hodge was playing , this Leeds ‘ fan ’ behind me groaned and said that he hoped he 'd have his leg broken ! I ca n't believe that . He may be a bit ropey at times but he plays his best for us and do n't forget the goals he scored , including one which put paid to the scouse red shite in 1991 . I may moan about them — I reserve the right to criticise the team , but I would never wish for one of our players to get an injury — that is insane . ( I told this lad what I thought of what he said too ) .
Idiom: jump on the bandwagon (used idiomatically: no)
Upwards of £ 12 m of tax - payers ' money has been invested in these new forests and at present , in Caithness , forestry has provided only three full - time jobs for local people ; at the cost of the greatest act of environmental vandalism perpetrated in Scotland this century . If any of our political masters , the faceless bureaucrats , the time - serving , vote - chasing , career politicians who sanctioned this devastation , ever read these lines , then I curse them for their crass stupidity and their wanton rape of my native land . As for the so - called foresters who jumped on the tax - avoidance bandwagon and ruined our moorlands , then I hope their consciences trouble them to their dying day . They have been responsible for destroying one of earth 's greatest treasures . During the planting years , I have known personally most of the tree - farmers involved .
Idiom: in a nutshell (used idiomatically: yes)
In respect of past land - take . I feel this is completely unrealistic , because basically er demand has been thwarted by existing land shortages . In a nutshell the approved structure plan seriously underestimated the employment needs of the district , and it allocated only forty six hectare for a fifteen year period . What this means in essence when when you look at the geography of of the district is that it imposes severe restrictions on where you can distribute reasonable sized employment allocations around the district . And the other thing you have to bear in mind is that at the time the original structure plan was drawn up , they were n't talking about the er the structural employment problems that we are at the moment .
Idiom: hands down (used idiomatically: no)
Oh two for nothing . Two for nothing . That 's the actual word , nothing to hand down for . Where did that come from ? Nix , nicta , not is not German is n't it , nix , I do n't know .
Idiom: out of sight (used idiomatically: no)
‘ Quiet!’ said the guide , and we all stood still , listening . From the bushes came a low snort and the scraping of branches . It was a buffalo , one of Africa 's most unpredictable and dangerous animals , out of sight but just a few feet away from where we were standing . Suddenly , Snowdonia and the Lakes seemed a million miles away . We were all keen walkers , and enjoyed the challenge of remote places , but nothing in Britain could have prepared us for this close encounter of the furry kind .
Idiom: tongue in cheek (used idiomatically: yes)
The grotesque forms of its intellectual belief have survived the discredit of its moral teaching’ . Clifford was , in the imagery of the authors of The Unseen Universe , one of those on the voyage who remains in the engine - room seeing how it works , rather than going on deck to see where the ship is going . Maxwell was a more sympathetic critic , seeing the work ( perhaps with tongue in cheek ) as science baited with ‘ the allurement of some more human interest’ . Stewart and Tait could at best demonstrate the possibility of eternal life ; no traveller returned from that bourne with authentic tidings , except Jesus long ago . The scientific age saw the new phenomenon of the instantaneous transmission of thought across vast distances .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
Colouring takes place , but the meat remains moist as the air in the chamber still has humidity . This considerably reduces shrinkage and weight loss . At the end of the cooking period , if further colouring is required or the crackling needs further crisping , turn the oven up high on dry heat / hot air for 10 - 15 minutes . Now you have a superb pork roast with crunchy crackling and a cold joint which will not crumble when carved ( the normal problem with pork on a buffet ) , as the moisture has been retained in the meat . Cleaning
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
JOHN HUSBAND BARCLAYCARD holders can get some great goodies under the Profiles scheme , which gives a point for every £10 spent on plastic . Points can be swapped for prizes ranging from a trip in a hot air balloon to a day out in the Champagne region of France boozing bubbly . The only hiccup is that you need to shell out £12,500 to get the champers treat , £1,900 for five paint brushes and £3,900 for a bathroom scales . Big deal !
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: yes)
It is difficult for Opposition Members to say that there is no problem and that money can be spent because the general tide of expert opinion is in the Government 's favour . In fact , the general tide of expert opinion is deeply divided . Geologists and civil engineers who have worked for the Cardiff Bay development corporation as consultants have in general been willing to give the green light to the package . We do not know , however , what other experts will say . They have not yet reported .