Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: rough and ready (used idiomatically: yes)
Somehow working with a young cast in Dublin has brought out the best in Parker as a director to create the film that is already being talked about as the best rock movie in years . The story starts with Jimmy Rabbitte , a man with a vision . His vision is to bring soul music to Dublin , and he sets out to bring together a band with raw potential and rough and ready talent . He collects a motley crew of musicians and singers , drunken Deco , Dean with his uncle 's sax , Billy , who has to have his drums redeemed from the pawnbrokers , Joey ‘ The Lips’ Fagan , and the girls Imelda , Natalie and Bernie . There are personality clashes in the band , and jealousies and rivalries spring up , but all dissent disappears when they perform .
Idiom: up to no good (used idiomatically: yes)
Mary Trumper , by all accounts , must have been a saint . George Trumper was a man whose behaviour was unacceptable , not in the same class as his father , whom Tata used to describe as a ‘ mensch’ . Young Charlie — who was always up to no good as far as I could see — nevertheless had what Tata called ‘ a future’ . The magic must have skipped a generation , he suggested . ‘ The boy 's not bad for a goy,’ he would tell me .
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: yes)
The gharial or gavial is the only member of its family . The crocodilians are surely one of the most successful groups of animals on earth . They have been around , practically unchanged , for at least 200 million years . Today there are two families , the Crocodylidae and the Gavialidae . Members of the first family , which includes crocodiles , alligators and caymans , all have very much the same appearance , though naturally there are differences , in dentition for example .
Idiom: in the clear (used idiomatically: yes)
Mostly , during the day , we went our separate ways . We did so on this day . After visiting the Hayward Gallery I spent a half - hour just gazing along the river line , the historic buildings sharp in the clear , cold , sunny air . The distant traffic noises did not seem to interrupt the silence ; the reflective water gave to the Palace of Westminster the illusion of insubstantiality . Clearly the scene was beautiful , even though I do not see London as my city .
Idiom: in the offing (used idiomatically: no)
If one asks why it is bad to hold logically inconsistent factual beliefs , the most obvious part of the answer is that if one does so , one guarantees that one will have a false belief within this area of one 's thought . Since the whole point of belief is to be true , logical inconsistency in belief defeats the aim of belief . It appears that logical inconsistency as between ethical beliefs ( which , according to the attitudinist , are really attitudes ) can not be condemned on these grounds , since there is no truth ( in the deep sense in which truth is a genuine thing to be pursued ) in the offing . However , one can say that a logically inconsistent set of attitudes bears the inevitable seeds of emotional disharmony within the individual and is likely to make effective action impossible by promoting patterns of behaviour which prevent each others ' successful issue . If one really disfavours all lying , one will disfavour one 's own lying , and if this is combined with an attitude of favouring one 's own lying in certain cases , one will at once favour and disfavour certain possible lines of action on one 's own part .
Idiom: in the fast lane (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Perhaps we should encourage young novelists’ ; ‘ the Booker Prize is a media junket’ ; ‘ actually , I 'm here because I wrote the book’ . Modern Afflictions : Dial N for Neck On the phone , in fifth and in the fast lane looks and feels better than three months in a surgical neck - support , which is the likely outcome of what is becoming known as ‘ phone neck’ . Shrugging the receiver between cheek and shoulder places an enormous strain on the sternocleido - mastoid muscles , the prominent bulges on each side of your neck , and the splenius capitis , the muscle that runs up to the base of your skull and stops you wearing your head at a jaunty angle . The strain usually results in stiffness and discomfort , but can be quite debilitating , requiring more extensive treatment — deep massage , heat treatment and sometimes physiotherapy .
Idiom: ride roughshod over (used idiomatically: yes)
As far as I was concerned , Mr Luke Beastly Hunter was attacking her , not the other way round.’ She still felt aggrieved to think how long it had taken to persuade the police of that simple fact . Luke Hunter was the sort of man who rode roughshod over everyone else 's opinions — if she had been there alone she was sure she could have convinced them in a fraction of the time . ‘ After all,’ she went on , ‘ I had a perfectly valid reason for being there . It was right outside the Rose Bowl , and I had the lease and everything in my briefcase.’
Idiom: home and dry (used idiomatically: yes)
Bettys By Post delivers super hand - made Belgian chocolate to your door . Bettys Broody Hen , below , sits on a nest of solid milk chocolate eggs and costs £ 9.75 ( plus p&p ) . HOME AND DRY The ISC Electric Home Food Dehydrator , above , will dry a huge variety of produce , from fruit and vegetables to meat , fish , herbs and spices , at a running cost of just 1.2p per hour . Dehydration is a brilliant way of preserving food and is particularly useful for foods that do n't freeze well , such as tomatoes and strawberries .
Idiom: no man's land (used idiomatically: yes)
And Forne , merchant of York , who had been a master coiner at Nottingham now for years , and had thought his fortune made , no doubt , when he married the sister of Duncan — King Duncan , the last one to rule Alba and Cumbria . There was a young boy with him , who would be one of the sons . The native denizens of the no - man 's - land they called Lothian , between the Firth of Forth and Northumberland , then turned their attention to the six figures walking behind Macbeth of Alba , but , except for Bishop Malduin , who was easy to recognise because of his embroidered robes and his doubtful expression , the three middle - aged men and the two young ones were unfamiliar . The local overlords , the magnates of the neighbourhood , who had spent a frenzied few weeks petitioning and being petitioned by their would - be superiors , had not been invited and therefore sat at home , drinking behind closed doors and not available to enlighten their countrymen . Thorfinn said , ‘ Now that we all know one another , perhaps we should sit down?’ and pulled out a stool at one end of the table for Earl Siward , as a host might , before taking the other end himself .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: yes)
Well that alone . That alone . Because at the end of the day , if something does happen you 've got all this filling in to do and you might well turn around and say It was n't my fault , you could turn around and say it was their fault for coming by . But was this situation avoidable ? .
Idiom: with a will (used idiomatically: no)
Even unanimity does not guarantee that the general or common good prevails . Rousseau was keenly aware that majority decisions , or even unanimous ones , are not necessarily right — right , that is , not only according to the moral criteria of any particular individual but from the point of view of the good of the community itself . This did not lead him to question the principle of majority decisions ; but it did lead him to pay attention to the social , cultural and economic conditions in which the will of all , or the will of the majority , would be more rather than less likely to coincide with " the general will " , by which Rousseau meant what all of us would will if we thought of ourselves not as private individuals but as citizens identifying ourselves with the good of the community . Rousseau as a theorist of democracy has attracted a great deal of hostile commentary , in particular from writers who see " totalitarian " implications in Du Contrat Social , or even a blueprint for what has been termed " totalitarian democracy " . They find in Rousseau 's stress on the unity of society , and his dislike of factions or interest groups , a threat to the pluralism and tolerance of diversity which are regarded as the hallmarks of a liberal democracy .
Idiom: piping hot (used idiomatically: yes)
Good food at Goldmans Traders at Goldmans Sachs new London headquarters need no longer leave their desks for a minute thanks to a new system devised by CCG . For over 300 hungry traders at the American Investment Bank , lunch is now delivered to their desks and its still piping hot ! For meals are delivered on individual airline style trays . Dublin - born Manager , June Loftus explained ,
Idiom: stake a claim (used idiomatically: yes)
Its intellectual and academic pedigree is impeccable . It is said to be effective , evidence based , and cheap to implement . Most of all , it stakes a claim to a degree of philosophical coherence of which the various “ third ways ” of the last decade could only dream . The novel idea , elucidated in Cass Sunstein ’s and Richard ~ Thaler ’s book Nudge , is that skillfully controlling the way alternatives are presented to us can “ nudge ” us toward making the choices that our own “ better selves ” would make . “ Libertarian paternalists ” like Sunstein and Thaler claim that we have two different ways of making decisions : one “ from the gut ” ( called System I ) , and the other more deliberative and far more effective ( called System II ) .
Idiom: over-egg the pudding (used idiomatically: yes)
Well I ask you . If you 're telling fibs , keep them simple , that 's the rule , is n't it ? Never over - egg the pudding . So we all had a good laugh at the sparks and all of us unzipped our flies and peed in the river whether we wanted to or not . The only person that did n't was Fish , who had to save face and went on claiming it was true .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: no)
I suppose they only okay your warrant if you 're late through no fault of your own . ' Jane shrugged . ' Getting lost is n't exactly an act of God , is it ? ' ' No it is n't . It 's plain bloody stupid . '
Idiom: turn heads (used idiomatically: yes)
Only when he was already in the doorway did he turn his head round , not completely , for his neck muscles were getting stiff , but enough to see that nothing had changed behind him except that his sister had risen to her feet .
Idiom: nuts and bolts (used idiomatically: yes)
How much smaller is the Clydeside shipbuilding industry now , than it was in the period 191–19 ? F. Many skilled workmen and parts are needed in fitting out a ship , particularly a passenger liner . Besides engines and boilers , the ships need many pipes , pumps , nuts and bolts , furnishings , cranes , electrical parts , ventilators , cooking equipment , and sometimes large refrigerators . To supply these , business people started engineering industries . These also make machines and parts for the textile factories , the iron and steel works , the coal mines and the transport systems .
Idiom: paint the town red (used idiomatically: yes)
Eddie Murphy ( 15)— Yorkgate . Groundhog Day ROMANTIC comedy about an egotistical TV weatherman who gets caught in a time - warp and decides to paint the town red and indulge his secret fantasies . Bill Murray , Andie McDowell ( PG)— Cannon , Cineworld , Curzon , Strand , Yorkgate . Indecent Proposal
Idiom: run riot (used idiomatically: yes)
The ‘ celebratory drink’ fast developed into a full - scale party , but Shannon managed to make her excuses and leave , knowing she had a long drive ahead of her . Rehearsals on the Sheffield play did n't actually begin till two days later , but she 'd promised to be there as soon as she could to discuss make - up with the director . It sounded like an interesting job — the play was a futuristic drama set in the twenty - first century , and the director said she 'd have a chance to really let her imagination run riot on the styles . ‘ To a certain extent you 'll have free rein,’ he 'd told her over the telephone . ‘ I 'll just give you the overall concept of the thing , and it 's up to you how to interpret as you see fit.’
Idiom: rub shoulders (used idiomatically: yes)
Sport and culture lead New Year 's Honours list . By Michael White , Chief Political Correspondent STARS from both sporting and artistic worlds — including golfer Tony Jacklin , actress Maggie Smith , and Frank Bruno , the heavyweight boxer — rub shoulders with 22 heroes of the Lockerbie disaster in the first New Year 's Honours of the 1990s , published this morning . A superior brand of knighthood , the KBE , goes to the former Liberal leader , Mr David Steel , while Sir John Fieldhouse , ex - chief of the Defence Staff and First Sea Lord during the Falklands War , becomes one of three new life peers . The sole new Companion of Honour is Mr David Lange , the former Prime Minister of New Zealand .
Idiom: on the make (used idiomatically: yes)
Think , for example , of the ineffectual Oxbridge dons portrayed by Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited ; the miscreant , Welsh , history teacher , Jim Dixon , in Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jim ; the snooty but endearing Professor Higgins in George Bernard Shaw 's Pygmalion , transferred to the screen as My Fair Lady ; Albert Corde , the Chicago college dean , stranded in Bucharest , in Saul Bellow 's The Dean 's December ; Henry Wilt , the polytechnic English lecturer , dinning"Eng . Lit"into the unreceptive skulls of rude mechanicals in Tom Sharpe 's Wilt ; Dr Petworth , the luckless linguist in Malcolm Bradbury 's Rates of Exchange — a practised cultural traveller — an academic like Norman Macaig 's — styleless , white and male , forty and married , bourgeois and British . Or the British academic , Philip Swallow and his American counterpart , Morris Zapp , in David Lodge 's Changing Places — " academics on the move , in the air , on the make " — who have exchanged the plate - glass , concrete jungle of Euphoria State University , USA , for the damp , red - brick University of Rummidge , UK ; or the unworldly dons of the 1987 television series , Porterhouse Blue . One explanation for all this brilliant caricaturing of college teachers might be that they really are larger than life , as portrayed . Or could it simply be that many of our best satirical writers were themselves college lecturers ?
Idiom: joined at the hip (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Cab , you and your brother , well , you do n't have the kind of relationship you just turn your back on . Even I know that , painful though it is to admit it.’ ‘ We are not joined at the hip,’ Cabochon said , and smiled bitterly . ‘ In case you have n't noticed , other than that first call , I 've made no attempt to try and find him since we 've been here.’ ‘ No , I have n't noticed,’ Jordan said .
Idiom: bite the dust (used idiomatically: yes)
Consortium Developments Ltd , a company established by Bovis , Barratt , Wimpey and Beazer , was behind the spectre of Stone Bassett and fought long and hard for permission to develop an area of 12,000 acres and build 6,000 houses . Within the package were a country park , leisure centre , swimming pool , schools and health care — all thrown in . But Stone Bassett bit the dust , the case against the development was taken up by some of the highest paid planners in the land and sounded a massive victory for conservationists . The same happened to Foxley Wood ( Hampshire ) and Tillingham Hall ( Essex ) , new towns that would have been a dream come true for some people , but which were deemed unjustifiable and unnecessary by the Government inspector of planning appeals . The developers tend to argue that country living offers people a good quality of life , and that they are relieving pressure on towns which are bursting at the seams , such as Reading , Camberley and Swindon .
Idiom: under the table (used idiomatically: no)
Dad pushed Mum indoors and Frankie and I followed quickly . Then Dad shot home the bolt , though this did n't stop us opening the window to see the end of the rumpus . We saw Maggie drag Billy from under the table where he was on his knees praying for ‘ the good Lord to send down lightning and scatter all these wicked people’ . The police took one look at him and decided to leave him for later . But while they were hauling various protesting individuals off to the police wagon Maggie got him indoors .
Idiom: nine times out of ten (used idiomatically: yes)
More than most of the zillion poker hands I 've ever played , I confess , I 've lost sleep over this one . The first few hundred hours of thought made me regret my bet ; but the second couple of thousand convinced me that I 'd played it right . If I had n't made that bet , and had n't then gone both ways , nine times out of ten Jude would have shown a beaten hand and raked in half the pot — while the lads trashed me for letting him off lightly . This , alas , was the tenth time — the freak one that you hope will happen to someone else , while you gasp at poker 's infinite potential for cruelty . Sure , I was aware of the possibility that he too could have the perfect hand — even that he had cunningly rolled that five to mislead my own investment when I could have collared his .
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: yes)
The kind of repair cost in excess of £ 500 . Male speaker You can adjust them , but in the long term it does damage them . Voice over The tell - tale signs of erosion here inside the cylinder head , plus obvious coking up all evidence of damage caused by unleaded petrol , used by unsuitable cars .
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: yes)
In 1988 , Julie had a year like Helen Dobson 's , a year in which she never felt she could lose . However , in 1989 things started to go all wrong as she developed a hook in the very week before she went to the English at Burnham and Berrow Much of the season , by her high standards , was bitterly disappointing but , by dint of " plugging away " , she began to rediscover her form during the week of the English Intermediate won by Lora Fairclough . By Southerness , she was back to her considerable best and it goes without saying that it will be interesting to see what this most confirmed of amateurs will make of 1990 . Fascinating though it was to watch how the women coped with bad weather and good at Southerness , spectators could have learned rather more about the players and their golf had there been portable scoreboards with the leaders on , the last day , not to mention a leader - board behind the home green . All this extra work could have been tackled by youngsters but , unfortunately , the Scottish schools were back and there were no children hanging around looking for something to do .
Idiom: hands down (used idiomatically: no)
I have familiarised myself with some of the feminist writers on art , women , and power — Linda Nochlin , Whitney Chadwick , Griselda Pollock . But I would like to ask : Is there anyone out there who could write about these issues , particularly about women and art , in a simple straightforward way , so that it does not sound like reading a P.H.D. essay , and what 's more , using the same sort of language and form that have been handed down by mainly male - dominated art historians ? I would really like to see some drastic sweeping away of the turgid sort of historical writing that necessitated some of my fellow students , not too familiar with art history , reaching for their dictionaries . This — not to understand the artworks themselves — but the fathom out what the writer might be getting et .
Idiom: out of the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
Estimated at $ 400,000–600,000 , bidding was brisk till it was knocked down at $ 2.2 million ( £ 1.375 million ) on the phone to New York dealer Wheelock Whitney , acting on behalf of his cousin Ted Pillsbury for the Kimbell Art Museum , underbid by Herman Shickman . As before , still - lifes offered the greatest surprises . An unusually delicate Jan Davidsz . de Heem , of fruits , oysters , and wine glasses on a ledge , had been sold by Joseph Widener of Philadelphia in 1912 as part of a cleaning out of lesser pictures from his already famous holdings : the lovely reject brought $ 1.4 million ( £ 875,000 ; est . $ 350,000–450,000 ) , sold to a private collector against Johnny van Haeften . Picard sale of Charles X Restoration furniture Paris auctioneer Jean - Louis Picard is selling the most important collection of French Charles X Restoration furniture and art objects to be seen on the market since the Castille Collection sold two years ago .
Idiom: over the counter (used idiomatically: yes)
The three major US car makers saw their stock prices decline after analysts predicted quarterly losses on their North American businesses for the first time since the 1982 recession . But European car makers fortunes were mixed . Volvo 's over - the - counter US shares jumped more than $ 5 on word of a merger with Renault , while Jaguar — the object of a run - up since Ford hinted at takeover plans two weeks ago — fell nearly a dollar on word that rival General Motors will take only a minority share in the British car maker . Bank fails to halt sterling 's slide By PETER TORDAY
Idiom: for Africa (used idiomatically: yes)
Trying to classify conflict is pointless . The one useful generalisation about war in impoverished Africa is that it takes place where there are not many expensive weapons for soldiers to kill each other with , but where the conditions of organised life are so fragile that its disruption causes lots of civilians to die of famine and disease . Into these horrible circumstances steps Mr Harding , equipped with a real descriptive talent , some unlucrative freelance commissions , and a liking for Africa and its peoples . Against the odds , he seems to have enjoyed himself . From his own observations , and such scanty and often mendacious published sources as exist , he pieces together accounts of what seemed to be going on .
Idiom: out and about (used idiomatically: yes)
Visit a museum or an exhibition and find out about other explorers like Sir Francis Drake or Marco Polo . In the Country When you are out and about in the country make sure you keep the Country Code . 1 Enjoy the countryside and respect its life and work .
Idiom: once in a blue moon (used idiomatically: yes)
The chromosomes are simply unable to pair up . Aristotle commented on the mule 's infertility in 350 BC , but since then there have been sporadic accounts of fertile she - mules — particularly , in retrospect , on some special occasion like the birth of Julius Caesar . Cum mula peperit ’(when a mule foals ) is the equivalent of our own ‘ once in a blue moon’ . The Polish scientist , W. Bielanski , reviewed all the available reports of foaling in mules and hinnies since 1527 — about 30 in she - mules and 2 or 3 in she - hinnies . As far as is known there are no reports of fertile male mules , though they are far from impotent .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
Since their widespread introduction in the 1960s , drift-nets have already laid waste enormous areas of open ocean , especially in the North Atlantic and North Pacific . Drift-netting is becoming recognised as the most indiscriminate method of fishing ever devised . As most drift-netting operations are carried out in international waters where little or no international agreements are in force , it is extremely difficult to control this destruction of life on the high seas , or even to get an accurate picture of its magnitude . Japan , Taiwan and South Korea are the three countries most responsible for drift-netting , and are operating mainly in the North Pacific . Other nations that use drift-nets include the US , Italy , and Spain , while Denmark in the 1970s had a large drift-net fishery for salmon in the North Atlantic .