Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: take the mickey (used idiomatically: no)
Piper , fighting behind a stiff left jab and a MENSA rating of 153 , backed Benn up in the first two rounds , with hard short rights . But Benn took the fight to the Welshman in rounds three to six , brilliantly switching tactics and working to the body with lacerating left and right hooks . Brave Piper took the seventh round on my card , while drawing three others , and impressed English judge Mickey Vann to make him a round up going into the climatic 11th , which made a joke of Piper 's manager Frank Warren having objected to Vann as a judge . But in that 11th , Benn was the Dark Destroyer of old , first knocking Piper down for a count of eight with three big rights and a sweet left hook and then punching him all round the ring — blood spurting from Piper 's mouth with every blow — until referee Larry O'Connell mercifully stopped it . Although Tibbs warned Benn that he needed the last two rounds , I already had him five rounds up — and so did Eubank .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: yes)
Okay ? These are interesting if you 're building bridges , but when it gets really interesting is when things start moving . When things start moving , F equals M A crops up all over the place . And it 's very important so they always ask questions about it . The understanding of it is that .
Idiom: see the light (used idiomatically: yes)
I thought it might be all a trap . So I kept up the act , I opened the door and said his name in a quiet voice and hobbled weakly across the cellar and up the steps . I could see the light , he had n't locked the outer door , either . It flashed across my mind that it was just what he would do , he would n't go to the doctor . He 'd run away .
Idiom: drunk as a lord (used idiomatically: yes)
Goin' around practically in rags ! Workin ' on that small farm from mornin ' to night ! And Finnegan spendin ' what little money he has on drink , rollin ' home at all hours of the night from the pubs in the village , drunk as a lord . And to think his wife is the same age as Una ! My God !
Idiom: for the time being (used idiomatically: yes)
Janet Foster ( Mrs Smith ) , who has a daughter , Nicola , took her degree in French and Spanish . She writes , however : ‘ Since the Sixth Form I have regretted not being able to combine Science and Modern Languages’ . She has recently completed the Science Foundation Course of the Open University , but has had to postpone further study in the sciences for the time being because changes in Modern Language teaching at the Sixth Form College where she works have consumed so much of her time and energy . The boldness of so many of her contemporaries in changing direction in their career or in life generally should encourage Janet to be bold in following her own inclinations . Imogen Haskins ( Mrs Olsen ) read Jurisprudence but comments : ‘ No further links with the law , nor indeed much interest in it’ .
Idiom: make or break (used idiomatically: yes)
Electromagnetic compatibility cleaning up the airwaves Comply or die . A drastic measure considering electromagnetic pollution has , as yet , taken only a handful of lives , but compliance with a new European Directive could make or break and electronics company . Whilst our cities wheeze from the effects of chemical pollutants there is another form of pollution gathering in the atmosphere . Electromagnetic smog increases with every new car phone and extra metre of electric cabling .
Idiom: come a cropper (used idiomatically: yes)
I just shot as much as possible.’ It was n't all hunky dory however , there were a number of occasions that Nigel would prefer to forget . ‘ We nearly came a cropper in Indonesia . We 'd taken a small local boat — built for four people but with 15 on board not to mention some pigs and chickens — out to an island . Half way there , the most almighty storm came up and we nearly sank .
Idiom: walk the plank (used idiomatically: yes)
In Act Five , Father Dooley , who had been sipping Irish whisky from a camouflaged army - issue water - bottle , responded dramatically to the exchange between Hook and Wendy . ( Wendy is brought up from the hold and sees at a glance that the deck has n't been scrubbed for years . ) Hook : So my beauty , you are to see your children walk the plank . Wendy:(with noble calmness ) : Are they to die ? Hook : They are .
Idiom: on someone's mind (used idiomatically: no)
Jackson , the estate agent , met Barratt on one of his visits having brought with him Michael Knott who was now desirous of talking business with John Taylor when he was next up . Knott claimed to have taken the mineral rights of " all the Isle of Man " , and claimed to have discovered some promising lodes there . Barratt listened to what he had to say but he really had other things on his mind that day . He was more concerned with the work in hand and he pointed out to Jackson that the expense of making trials was great . Could some allowance be made ?
Idiom: square the circle (used idiomatically: yes)
The only question concerns the best way to arrange it so that no one really understands that Greece is actually defaulting . On this topic , there is no shortage of expert plans – among them bond buy - backs , bond swaps , and the creation of Eurobonds , a European version of the “ Brady ” bonds issued by Latin ~ American countries that defaulted in the 1980s . What all such schemes amount to is piling one lot of bonds on top of another in an attempt to square the circle of Greece ’s inability to pay , and to minimize the losses faced by its creditors – mostly European banks . Every week , a preposterous coterie of European bankers and finance ministers drags itself from one capital to another to discuss which default / restructuring plan to adopt . Meanwhile , Greece ’s agony continues , and the “ markets ” wait to swoop down on Portugal , Ireland , Italy , and Spain .
Idiom: bow and scrape (used idiomatically: yes)
Determined to extract maximum mileage . ‘ Come on , you two,’ Susan Hastings reproached , laughing , ‘ first names , please ! Unless you 'd rather we all bowed and scraped and addressed you by your noble title , Roman!’ There was a short , intrigued silence around the table . ‘ Noble title?’
Idiom: give and take (used idiomatically: yes)
He 's not intere Er yeah , Cumbernauld 's a typical example of this . Aye . But he 's not g no give and take with this guy , he 's just taking advantage of his size . Er and he 's going You watch in moment the way he S see there 's the one trying to come out , look . Look .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: no)
The idea is that , in the future , all states will be allocated a national per - capita emissions budget that links three core elements of a fair global climate deal : the major industrial countries ' historical responsibility , individual countries ' current performance capacity , and global provision for the survival of mankind . The task is immense . On a global level , quick and comprehensive de - carbonization of the world economy is necessary . All countries must reduce their use of fossil fuels and switch to renewable energy sources as soon and as much as possible . But , since the OECD - countries ( led by the United ~ States and Australia ) will soon overrun their carbon budgets even after far - reaching emissions reductions , they must cooperate with developing countries that still have budget surpluses .
Idiom: with a will (used idiomatically: no)
Major international affiliations : BIS ; COCOM ; Council of Europe ; CSCE ; EBRD ; EFTA ; ESA ; NATO ; Nordic Council ; OECD . POLITICAL SYSTEM The Kingdom of Norway is a constitutional monarchy in which the monarch exercises authority through a Council of State ( Cabinet ) , appointed by the monarch in accordance with the will of the 165-member parliament ( Storting ) , which is elected for a fixed four - year term . Main government leaders King : Harald V.
Idiom: have someone's number (used idiomatically: no)
HST . Nos 43119 + 43065 emerging from Calton Hill Tunnel at the start of the journey with the 09.35 Edinburgh - King 's Cross service on Sunday 21 June 1987 . The leading power car is in the older Inter - city livery and has its number rather than a set number displayed on the front end . This reflects a change in attitude , the power cars are now seen as separate locomotive units . The visible Mk3 trailers are still in blue and grey .
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: yes)
This keeps more options open for XH558 . There is , however , a worrying trend that is perhaps best put down to enthusiasm . At least two ‘ campaigns’ are now up - and - running offering to fill the place held by the demised Vulcan Association ( VA ) . The tale of the fall at the last fence by the VA can be told one day , but for now talk of fund - raising , sponsorship , sale of merchandise etc etc by keen , but necessarily overnight , groupings of enthusiasts will only serve to muddy the waters . If — and it is a big if — MoD ‘ recognises’ another supporters ' operation , it will be in the form of a well - constituted and long - established body , taking the Vulcan under its wing .
Idiom: to the letter (used idiomatically: no)
A MAJOR expansion of The Independent begins today with more space for news , features and sport . There will be an extra page of sport every weekday ; today 's five pages of unrivalled coverage starts on page 28 . The redesigned editorial page gives more space to readers ' letters ( page 18 ) . William Rees - Mogg 's column moves to Monday and appears , with the book review , on page 19 . Peter Kellner moves to Friday .
Idiom: point the finger (used idiomatically: no)
Is n't this the Messiah ? I 'm quite sure she said more than just that . I 'm quite sure that when she said that , come see a man that told me everything I did , she did n't just leave it there , but she 'd have put such words as and he did n't condemn me he did n't berate me he did n't point a judgemental finger at me , but he loved me ! He saved me ! He forgave me !
Idiom: save the day (used idiomatically: yes)
The issue became hot enough in New Zealand to lead to a meeting between the Prime Minister Mr Bolger and the NZRFU Chairman Eddie Tonks . Following the row the New Zealand High Commission , which represents NZ interests in South Africa , refused to issue visas until guarantees had been provided by the relevant political bodies . Tshwete 's return from Australia saved the day and secured visas for the six beleaguered South Africans . Read the rule books ! IN THE wake of his suspension , French prop GREGOIRE LASCUBE has taken up refereeing in the hope that his six months ' ban will be reduced .
Idiom: count sheep (used idiomatically: no)
The shepherd counts the sheep : " One , two , three , four , five ... one ~ hundred . "
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: yes)
This indicates that there is something that distinguishes monkey from mouse brains other than the relative sizes of the two species . Humans belong to the group of animals known as mammals , which are characterized by the presence of hair , mammary glands and sweat glands , tooth specialization , and the regulation of a constant body temperature . Mammal - like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . It is generally agreed that the primitive mammals existing at that time were shrew - like creatures that lived by eating insects , and that the various groups of mammals that we see today , such as cats , rats , monkeys , whales , and horses , all evolved from this unpromising ancestor . We also know that the specialization took place very early in the evolution of mammals and that the ancestors of the main groups that are alive today all appeared around the same time , give or take a few million years .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: yes)
Anyway , the reason I woke you was not just bloody - mindedness . I want to ring Steen 's Bayswater place and check he 's not there . It 's a long way to go if he 's just round the corner.’ Both the phone numbers Jacqui gave were ex - directory . Charles paused for a moment before dialling the Bayswater one , while he decided what character to take on .
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: yes)
The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the . old one still had a day 's life left in it . How strict Tata had always been with me as a child ; even taken the strap to me on a couple of occasions , once for pinching ‘ fress’ , or buns as Mother called them , behind his back — he did n't mind how much I took from the shop as long as I asked — and once for saying ‘ Damn’ when I cut my finger peeling an apple . Although I was n't brought up in the Jewish faith — my mother would n't hear of it — he still passed on to me all those standards that were part of his own upbringing and would never tolerate what he from time to time described as my ‘ unacceptable behaviour’ . It was to be many years later that I learned of the strictures Tata had accepted once he had proposed marriage to my mother , a Roman Catholic .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: yes)
' Will they let us ? ' Gabriel took over John Coffin 's neglected cup and began to drink it in anxious little sips . ' They 're all over my place too , ' said Charley . ' The studio , all the store - rooms . The darkroom , even .
Idiom: make a killing (used idiomatically: yes)
The latest increase of 3.2p a gallon takes effect from tomorrow and other oil companies are bound to follow suit . It means prices have surged by an average of more than 30p a gallon since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait . Shadow Energy Secretary Frank Dobson says the treasury has made a killing out of the increases . The government 's er oil revenues have gone up by £ 345 million , er that 's an average of £ 7.1 million a day , since the Gulf crisis started , and er they 're now running at over £ 13 million a day more than they were before the crisis commenced . Atlanta Georgia will host the 1996 centennial Olympic Games .
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
DAVID NAISH was re - elected as president of the National Farmers Union of England and Wales for a third year at the union 's annual meeting last week . Ben Gill was re - elected for a second year as deputy , and Tony Pexton for a second year as vice - president . Magazine changes hands THE Peebles Publishing Group , Scotland 's largest business publishers , has bought the monthly farming magazine Agribusiness Scotland from Eddie Gillanders . Mr Gillanders started Agribusiness in 1985 .
Idiom: off the wall (used idiomatically: no)
The tentacles went momentarily as stiff as rods , hurling their various cargoes around the room , before bunching up protectively in front of the abused Eye . The whole mass dropped into the pit and a moment later the big slab was snatched up by several dozen tentacles and slammed into place , leaving a number of thrashing limbs trapped around the edge . Hrun landed rolling , bounced off a wall and came up on his feet . He found his sword and started to chop methodically at the doomed arms . Rincewind lay on the floor , concentrating on not going mad .
Idiom: squeaky clean (used idiomatically: no)
The EQ section is a standard bass , middle and treble setup but a fourth pot , labelled ‘ Contour’ , shifts the midrange voicing , and this is really effective in colouring the tone of both overdrive modes . The last control on this channel is a volume pot which enables it to be balanced with the Normal channel . For the kind of squeaky clean sound that only a solid state amp can produce , the S80 's Normal channel takes some beating . A single gain pot and bass , middle and treble pots are all it needs to deliver some superb clean tones , but if these sounds are too clean and a slight amount of edge is preferred , then a push switch adds in some crunch . This channel might be solid state but the crunch sounds quite natural , and experimenting with the various options on both channels I ca n't imagine many players not being able to come up with a sound which meets their particular requirements .
Idiom: hear things (used idiomatically: yes)
Wycliffe sensed that feeling of child - like excitement and anticipation which seems to infect those who find themselves almost anywhere on the fringes of the sea on a fine summer morning . Not Kersey : he was morose . ' I 've never known anything like it : over two hundred interviews with people who were in the street , mostly in the pubs , at some time between nine and eleven on the night and nobody saw or heard a damn thing . Not even the usual nutters who invent something to get themselves noticed . And yesterday Dixon and Potter spent the whole bloody day chatting up shopkeepers and others about the Garlands in general and Francis in particular .
Idiom: out of this world (used idiomatically: yes)
Brochure 0254 53277 . 5 . Summer in Switzerland is out of this world . Come with Swiss Travel Service to over 30 Alpine and lakeside resorts . Phone 0920 461221 for a brochure .
Idiom: out of line (used idiomatically: no)
After all , we all have to live in London in some form of property . My very ordinary London flat costs about half as much again as my flat in Glasgow , which is an infinitely superior building in which to live in every respect . Everybody knows that London prices are out of line with prices in the rest of the country . The same could be said for many a flat in many English provincial cities . I am making a comparison not between Scotland and London but between London and most of the rest of the country .
Idiom: go public (used idiomatically: yes)
The Council of Europe defines the low paid as someone earning less than £ 163 a week in 1989 . Digest goes public . Readers Digest is to go public in February , offering 21 per cent of its shares to investors worldwide . The monthly magazine , founded in a garage by an American husband and wife , has a readership of 100million but will offer only four million shares outside the US . RD 's UK circulation is 1.5 million .
Idiom: slip through the net (used idiomatically: yes)
The testing arrangements : The national curriculum will be intimately connected to the assessment and testing schedule at years seven , 11 , 14 and 16 and the same concerns expressed in 3 a and b apply . The programmes of study will apply from five years of age , likewise the attainment targets , although not in operation formally until the age of seven years , will of course be drawn from the study programmes in the first two years of statutory schooling . The concept of ‘ teaching by objectives’ , and regular progress monitoring , can be regarded as offering a system whereby no child slips through the net . But the concern , in respect of the early years , is that we have never achieved consensus over what an appropriate early years curriculum should be ; besides which , provision is so varied nationally that some children are evidently disadvantaged from an early age . In his evidence to the Select Committee on Under - Fives , the Secretary of State for Education , Kenneth Baker , said he appreciated the different starting points ( into education ) and said that schools could publish in their results a clear indication of the starting age of children in order to indicate those who are disadvantaged ( unpublished evidence ) .
Idiom: around the clock (used idiomatically: no)
They met head on with elements of that teenage army that had also emerged from 1956 . In 1955 , while Jimmy Young and Dickie Valentine 's ersatz American crooning dominated the milk bars of Britain , Bill Haley , the John the Baptist of rock ‘ n’ roll , took four records into the Top Twenty . Blackboard Jungle , that portrait of minor - league delinquency in a New York school , with Haley 's ‘ Rock around the clock’ on the soundtrack , opened , and briskly closed cinemas . And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades . The impact of rock ‘ n’ roll went everywhere , including the debating society of my Southampton grammar school , debating , as 1956 closed , that the new music should be deplored .
Idiom: old hat (used idiomatically: yes)
The new season 's T.V. programs are as much old hat as ever .
Idiom: seal of approval (used idiomatically: yes)
Just as Commercial Banks have collected deposits from the public so also has the state through the Postal Savings system , where savers can accumulate several tax - free accounts by using fictitious names . These funds have been used to finance the work of specialist quasi - public financial institutions in a range of activities from overseas projects to long - term loans for the purchase of specialist equipment . Although the share of state borrowing in total company finance has recently been relatively small at about 10 per cent , in a qualitative sense even a small loan by a state institution carries a seal of approval that enormously enhances the standing of companies with their banks . In equity finance , the state has allowed the lower dependence of Japanese firms to continue by treating loan interest as tax deductible in contrast to dividends . This practice is also not unknown elsewhere , but the preferential treatment for corporate dividend receivers where the effective tax rate is ‘ close to zero’(Aoki 1984 p.238 ) , has been a clear incentive to intercompany stockholding .
Idiom: catch a cold (used idiomatically: yes)
Then his father had come in . ' Son , I want to have a word with you about this man in the pictures , so that you 'll know what to do in future . Get into bed now , or you 'll catch cold . Never mind about your prayers — you can say them in bed . Now listen , son .
Idiom: rise through the ranks (used idiomatically: yes)
' Many Japanese are nationalistic , so even I , when I decided to join Arthur Andersen , thought that after 18 months or two years I would leave and open my own office . At least , that was the thought I had , but for some reason I must have found it very nice because I stayed for 30 years ! ' Mr Shiratori rose rapidly through the ranks : in 1971 he joined AA 's worldwide partnership and three years later was made managing partner of the Japanese operations . AA 's investment had certainly paid off . His audit clients included a number of major Japanese companies which had raised finance overseas and needed to prepare their financial statements in accordance with US GAAP .
Idiom: at the crossroads (used idiomatically: no)
These reforms transformed Turkey into a vibrant democracy and a more stable society , at peace with itself and able to view its external environment in a different light . Quite simply , we stopped viewing our geography and history as a curse or disadvantage . On the contrary , we began to regard our location at the crossroads of Europe , Asia , and the Middle ~ East as an opportunity to interact simultaneously with multiple players . As a result , we began to reach out to countries in our neighborhood and beyond .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
Sutcliffe adds ( p. 149 ) : The girls ' collective perception of usage at home was summed up in the comment"plien [ plain]English — and sometimes Jamaican ' … Various happenings that could bring about a shift into Creole were mentioned , including " talking to my Grandma about some of these teachers " . But by and large the consensus was that children tended to use English at home , while parents very often used " Jamaican " , especially when old friends came visiting . Unfortunately , though this description tells part of the truth , it is greatly oversimplified . Sutcliffe remarks that his diagram is " incomplete even within its own simple terms of reference " ( 1982a : 149 ) .