Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: donkey work (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm Mind you , it 's the bloke in the front keeps do n't he ? Keep tucked in behind the side always said to you , the bloke in the front , mate , he does all the donkey work , picking up drags you round do n't it ? Whether he punches hole in the wind , in the air or not I dunno , like cards . Yeah .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
In 1953 , I was sixty . Michael was going to retire that year . In the spring , he had to have a heart by - pass operation , and that was a time of anxiety and distress . I learned then how very kind people can be in times of grave illness . Michael made a good recovery , and was well enough to enjoy the international conference given at the time of his retirement .
Idiom: go overboard (used idiomatically: no)
But like Cancun itself , Ringo was not all he seemed . The real Beatle was in Monaco and this imposter , once found out , was swiftly deported . You can understand why Cancun initially went overboard on ‘ Ringo’ . The resort is only 20 years old and grabs at any chance for a celebrity to add sparkle to its budding image as the Florida of the Nineties . Less famous visitors are tempted to a concrete strip of newly - built luxury hotels which divide the waters of a natural bay on one side and the Caribbean on the other .
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: yes)
He had no successor , in the sense of someone doing an identical job . His functions were now split between several officers who specialised in counter - insurgency . Had he been around at the time of my capture I do n't believe I 'd have made it very far . I owed my life to Martinho . There was no question of that .
Idiom: spit it out (used idiomatically: no)
Mhm ? You do n't like it ? Spit it out then . Spit it out in here . Give it to daddy then .
Idiom: make a meal of (used idiomatically: yes)
There is hardly a spadeful of soil anywhere in the world that does not contain some of them . Most are only a few millimetres long . Only one is commonly noticed , the silverfish that glides smoothly across cellar floors or is occasionally discovered making a meal of the dried glue in the bindings of books . Its body is clearly segmented but it has very many fewer divisions than the millipede . It has a well - defined head with compound eyes and antennae ; a thorax bearing three pairs of legs , the result of fusing together three segments ; and a segmented abdomen which , while it no longer has limbs on each segment , retains little stumps as signs that it once possessed them .
Idiom: call someone's bluff (used idiomatically: yes)
You 've already admitted that you would give in willingly.’ ‘ Yes , I did , did n't I ? But you dare n't take the risk of trying it on in case I was calling your bluff and would refuse you . But with all this soft talk of falling in love again you think a refusal would n't be a consideration.’ His eyes blackened angrily and Ruth supposed she had been right and exposed him for what he was — a cool bastard .
Idiom: take a shine to (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Nor mine.’ Colin sat back in his chair and cocked his head . ‘ You have n't taken a shine to the girl , have you?’ ‘ Of course not . I 'd just like to be able to repay her generosity.’
Idiom: fit the bill (used idiomatically: yes)
Male speaker The RAF was looking for something to work in the arctic , the desert . Only the Lockheed Hercules would fit the bill . Hercules conjures up the image of a weight lifter . It sums up how it carries large loads .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
He did n't . Another accused Ashdown of ‘ arrogance’ , but quickly withdrew the charge . Paddy retired virtually unhurt after a characteristic bit of Para boldness under fire : ‘ Who would you rather have as Foreign Secretary : David Steel or Gerald Kaufman?’ he demanded , inviting a show of hands . He got the decision . But it was close .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: yes)
you can pick up phone 's that cheap these days , probably for about fifteen quid for er , have a decent phone yeah , right and there why , why , I mean I 'm not saying , at the end of the day its all taxed up towards you making money mm now ideally what I 'd like to do is to have a chat with somebody , a
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: yes)
EPA officials say they do n't know who prepared what 's come to be known as the EPA 's hit - list . As for the list 's members , who serve terms at the pleasure of the President , many have not been asked back . With budget cuts slicing the agency 's own scientific staff to the bone , that leaves the agency with plenty of bureaucrats , but fewer experts than ever . Hunt for the last wolf in Norway WHAT MAY be the only wolf in Norway now has a £ 2000 price on its head .
Idiom: pack a punch (used idiomatically: yes)
But these are restrictions you have to live with on a budget machine . There are drum machines which allow more programming scope and greater flexibility — for instance Yamaha 's own RY30 and Roland 's R70 — but they 're more expensive and do n't have the RY10 's ' use anywhere ' portability , nor its basic simplicity . Sonically , this little machine packs a real punch , has a very commendable number and variety of sounds , and is a very modern - sounding drum box . MODS AND ROCKERS Lee Jackson of Ampeg I was recently invited to visit the home of Ampeg and Crate amplifiers , in St Louis , Missouri . During my visit I spoke to tubeman extraordinaire Lee Jackson , about his history , and the future of Ampeg under his guidance …
Idiom: fall into place (used idiomatically: yes)
New Natural Styling Pre - Styling Lotion was then applied to prepare and protect her hair prior to perming . Technical Director , Robbie , chose Schwarzkopf 's new Natural Styling Number 1 lotion , which is particularly good for normal and fine hair . Sue 's hair was wound onto rollers using the directional technique , following the contours of her head and giving a more natural result by allowing the hair to fall naturally into place . The major cause of hair damage during a perm happens in the rinsing process . A perm makes the hair more porous but it is the rinsing that causes the hair to swell , which is when the damage is likely to occur .
Idiom: run amok (used idiomatically: yes)
One minute there had apparently been an entire nation , set upon racial purity and world domination , and then the next … As the years passed , my cousin came to encounter this phenomenon again and again . There were Peace Rallies in the 1960s , with stone - throwing anarchists running amok . But , the next day in court , these same stone - throwing anarchists complained that they were nothing more than innocent bystanders , who had been brutalized by policemen and thrown into Black Marias . And the policemen themselves , when accused of baton charging peacefully protesting women and children , denied that they had ever done any such thing .
Idiom: wear the trousers (used idiomatically: yes)
On occasion , it might refuse to work at all and we find ourselves longing for the days of youth when it would stand at attention regardless of any identifiable sexual stimulus . There you are , trembling and writhing with lust , feeling passion in every corpuscle , and the penis is snoring away regardless , leaving you in a state of mortal terror , wondering whether it will every work again without the assistance of a rope and pulley . While suffering from a temporary bout of impotence in my early twenties , I considered all the possible remedies ( from exotic aphrodisiacs to penile splints ) before paying a visit to my local GP , who consulted some weighty medical tome before advising me to avoid wearing excessively tight trousers . Premature ejaculation is another can of worms entirely . You 're in the mood for a long spell at the crease , but the penis decides that it ca n't wait to get the game over and done with before heading back to the pavilion to put its feet up on the couch .
Idiom: in the nick of time (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm . Absolutely . We got here in the nick of time or we would have had the rotten table otherwise . Mm . It 's a bit nearer nine now .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
That they ask you specific questions of that naming it 's a multi - choice more importantly in your written answers you will have to in , you are expected to include and correct systematic ohms for any organics that you deal with . Plus , of course , it means you 're gon na go back in that direction so if they say something like erm two chlorapropane active with you need to be able to get structural formula from that name . So you really have got to get to grips with it ! They 're something you should be using right the way up to the to the actual exams . And , there 's at least eight discs available at the present time , and more could be made available .
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: yes)
He intended to build up a small collection of workmen 's clothes , a Brabant smock , a fisherman 's outfit of yellow oilskin and a sou'wester , a grey linen suit of the sort worn by miners , straw hat , wooden clogs , so that he could dress his models in them . If this strikes us today as quaint , peculiar in its literalness , we have to remember that he was addressing , through his parents , a nation that prized practicality . Dutch to the bone , his ambition was to paint the world realistically . There were problems , however . His realism was not the realism of his forebears .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: no)
Following Paul 's route was easier said than done as there were so many confusing tracks . For the newcomer to the area it 's a bit like being in a maze . It 's easy to get lost but never for very long . We took one wrong turning — Vanessa firmly blamed me — but it was soon corrected . It was worth getting back to Paul 's route for it soon brought us to Hardy 's birthplace , a small thatched cottage just outside Higher Bockhampton .
Idiom: saved by the bell (used idiomatically: yes)
Have you got your purse ? Well the erm , oh . Saved by the bell ! I think , I think in fact you 're , you 're not having the problems that we 're having where it 's very difficult so you 've got er a really nice representation but have n't quite gone far enough . Cos we did actually , we went to before we went , putting the things together making sure that we were n't starting the next activity until the , the rooms would be finished .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Real - life narratives never have beginnings . But it is at least necessary to start Mary 's story on the morning of Tuesday , 12th January 1937 , when she was fifteen years old . It was a moment of horror in a childhood lived on the edges of the occult east of London . At that time , Mary 's mother had a strange , possessive relationship with another woman ; an affair which young Mary was only just beginning to understand . Both women arrived without warning one morning at the home of Mary 's grandfather , which had been the girl 's permanent home .
Idiom: bleeding heart (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We reflect society,’ a director of soap once remarked . ‘ We must not try to lead it.’ To reflect society can only mean comedy , in such a world , if a work is to convince as any sort of mirror , and the preference of other nations for melodrama and the bleeding heart has nothing to do with the habitual temper of British life . The grumbles of J. Alfred Prufrock in early Eliot are endurable if they are meant to be ridiculous , but only then ; and sitting around on Margate sands , or anywhere else , trying to connect nothing with nothing may be all right for Harvard men abroad , but ( as Eliot must already have discovered when he wrote The Waste Land ) it has nothing to do with the daily life of the Londoner . Or with living anywhere .
Idiom: every last (used idiomatically: no)
The woman winked at Samson . ‘ We all know thy kindness , Betsy!’ somebody called . ‘ Five minutes up Old Nick 's Entry and th'pockets cleaned of every last farthing!’ There was a burst of laughter and the woman shrieked something that was lost in the hubbub . On her lonely perch , cut off from the amiable mindless warmth of the mob , Jess shifted , taking a cautious step back towards the edge of the counter .
Idiom: see red (used idiomatically: no)
Severe winter conditions create much hardship for the isolated Settle–Carlisle line and the railway provides the only reliable form of transport at such times . No 31410 leaves Blea Morr tunnel with the 08.57 Leeds–Carlisle train on February 1983 . Cardiff–based single–car unit No 55032 carrying the dragon and red ‘ V ’ of Provincial 's Welsh ‘ Valley Lines ’ is seen near Porth at the head of a Barry Island to Treherbert train on 15 August 1985 . Two–car diesel parcels unit ( No 55972 and 55982 ) passes the fine North Staffordshire ‘ Jacobean ’ gables of Stone station en route to Birmingham . The Class 127 units were modified ( for Parcels sector use ) after their eventual replacement by emus on the St Pancras–Bedford route .
Idiom: go to the wall (used idiomatically: no)
Jesus our pioneer overcomes apparent failure . Let's go back to the Greek idea of Jesus entering into our sinfulness and weakness . If you ever get the chance of going to the catacombs in Rome you will see on the walls a very popular image of the cross shaped as an anchor . Sometimes the anchor will be fashioned as a fish-hook . The fish-hook image had an interesting story behind it .
Idiom: get the boot (used idiomatically: yes)
He grabbed the end of the case before it hit him and stepped backwards using my momentum to take me forward and off balance , then he shoved back . He was stronger than he looked and I stumbled back into his partner . Both of us went down and rolled off the hard , wet pavement into the gutter , but it was me who cracked the back of his head en route and me who got a boot in the stomach which even my US Navy parka did little to cushion . I had the good sense to let go of the trumpet case and try and keep rolling out of range . Then my head hit something else and I realized it was one of Armstrong 's rear tyres .
Idiom: go from strength to strength (used idiomatically: yes)
This team meets every Thursday under the Chairmanship of James Freeman . As in all situations of change there are those who are able to offer support and those who find it difficult to accept . James is certain that the railway is now in a more secure position and will go from strength to strength . He was at great pains to comment that ‘ to say that John Bunch ( Locomotive Superintendent ) has too much power is a travesty’ . He is certain that John is absolutely committed to the Watercress Line and aims only at achieving what is best for the railway .
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
At first it did , though that was before the incident . The room may well have been as it was then , twenty years ago . The passing of time had eroded the picture from his mind as much as he could possibly allow it , so that now the two images were one and the same . It was undoubtably a shame , he had concluded , that they should endure such a loss of dignity . Just as well they were unaware of it .
Idiom: ride high (used idiomatically: yes)
By the late ' 80s , no longer could we be described as the ‘ sick man of Europe’ . On the contrary ; Americans , Japanese and European commentators were talking about an extraordinary economic renaissance in the UK . Our international reputation was riding high , and Conservative policies on privatisation , choice and competition were — and are — being copied in many parts of the world . Even , on occasions , by the British Labour Party . How was the transformation accomplished ?
Idiom: take it easy (used idiomatically: yes)
Calm down and stay where you are . All right , so it 's a mystery , and there 's not a lot you can do to get to the heart of it yet , but you do n't have to let it get to you . Just sit back and take it easy while I think.’ She subsided into silence for a few minutes , her glance going around the room , her fingers twining restlessly in her lap until his hand reached out and covered hers . ‘ Stop it,’ he said .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: yes)
Daily Mirror / Sporting Life Grand National winner Kildare Slippy and the powerful My Texette are among the stars in a brilliant supporting card . Kingswell Limo , Duagh Colours and Skelligs March are three to follow in the Wey Plastics Puppy Derby semis at Wimbledon on Tuesday . The Limo , a sub-28sec performer , has the style to go all the way in Saturday 's final . Toulon and Lets All Boogie at Walthamstow and Harbour Breeze at Hackney are other Tuesday fancies . CRAYFORD 's Some Rabbit was tagged The Fugitive when he went on the run from his Essex kennels .
Idiom: the rest is history (used idiomatically: yes)
He put them on sale in the beginning of December 1980 ; by Christmas they had sold out . Wade Smith was given salesman of the year in January and promptly left to set up shop on his own . He immediately set off for Germany in a van and the rest is history . His four - storey department - style store is testament to that . The shop now caters for the mainstream market , but it was built upon bringing in exclusive trainers from Germany in the early Eighties , trainers that had nothing to do with America , but a lot to do with the nomad Scousers , and Wade Smith often supplemented his stock by buying from Liverpool ‘ entrepreneurs’ with time on their hands to travel to Deutschland and acquire , by various methods , the much sought after , exclusive Adidas Trim - Trab .
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: yes)
You know on that murder squad Aye . when it said the bottles had stuck to the blood on the carpet ? Well no wonder ! How many in there bottles now ?
Idiom: up for grabs (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We would n't necessarily be a big network to compete with the PTTs , but we 'd probably go to the PTTs and say , ‘ Hey , we have this big network , do you want to use it ? ’’ The Nynex - Hitrail joint venture company would likely be called Hermes , said the source , and its capital opened up to other European partners . Choice of location for the joint venture company is still up for grabs , the source said , although Hitrail , which is based outside Amsterdam , is lobbying for the Netherlands , while Nynex would like to have it in its own continental back yard in Brussels . KEWILL TAKES BATH ON GERMAN UNIT Kewill Systems Plc has decided its 1991 acquisition of still loss - making Weigang MCS GmbH of Stuttgart was a mistake , and is to sell the manufacturing software company to Seitz Industrie Lsungen GmbH.
Idiom: in the can (used idiomatically: yes)
Asbach of Rüdesheim , in Germany , produces Asbach Uralt , the leading German premium brandy . Pimm 's is produced to the original unique recipe and bottled at Laindon . In addition , Pimm 's in a can ( ready mixed with lemonade ) is now widely available throughout the UK . DISTRIBUTION United Distillers has a worldwide network of distributors , which provides sales and marketing support for its brands in every country .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
We are all in the business of making people laugh — and in Carry On films there is only one way to do that — good old slapstick humour . ’ And Jim had some familiar faces around to make him feel at home . ‘ Bernard Cribbins is my old mate , June Whitfield is priceless and Jack Douglas was lovely to have on board , ’ he says . ‘ But you ca n't help missing the old favourites too — like Kenneth Williams , Charles Hawtrey and the wonderful Sid James . ’ Jim was the star of 10 Carry Ons before he went off to America to become a Broadway star .
Idiom: call the shots (used idiomatically: yes)
Taking the piss out of this is , let 's face it , a little easy . The truth is that C is a convenient scapegoat for those upset by The Shamen 's commercial ambitions and looking for a way to convince themselves that , underneath it all , Colin 's still credible . But , remember , it is Colin who calls the shots . As he points out , the idea ( and a lot of the lines ) for ‘ Ebeneezer Goode’ were around before Mister C. And The Shamen had long had their sights set on the charts . OK , some tracks which feature C upfront are pretty atrocious ( the woeful ragga rap of ‘ Coming On Strong’ , the rabbity rap of ‘ Fatman’ ) .
Idiom: on the ropes (used idiomatically: yes)
It was a real challenge for us to go down the cliff on a rope .
Idiom: get it up (used idiomatically: yes)
Mhm . Right . So we got it up that way . Mhm . That 's quite clever , use gravity to help you along .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
Scientists are now working on a computerised driving system which would automatically keep your car a safe distance behind the vehicle in front and over-ride the driver 's controls in the event of an impending accident . The prototype Safe Driving System by Mazda of Japan is designed to help motorists , as well as reducing fuel consumption and air pollution . At the heart of the system are two inter-linked computers , one assessing the environment outside the car , the other checking the driver 's judgment according to the position of the pedals and information from sensors . In ‘ follow ’ mode the system matches the pace of the car in front , guided by cameras on the car roof and laser-operated radar to measure speed and distance . More advanced still is ‘ traffic jam ’ mode which maintains a safe speed and distance in stop-and-go traffic .
Idiom: for good measure (used idiomatically: yes)
She brought her hands up , clasped them together , said impulsively , ' Oh , do say yes , Dr Neil , sir , Miss Mates — help a poor , lonely orphan , ' and this last flew out without her even thinking , and certainly dissolved Miss Mates , even if Dr C , as she privately thought of him , looked a little sardonic . Miss Mates , indeed , kissed her on the cheek , said , ' Oh , you poor thing , ' which made Sally - Anne feel a little mean , even if it was the last copper - bottomed clincher — that was her Uncle Orrin this time , not Papa — which got her the job . For good measure , she added , a trifle pathetically , ' I am a good girl , really truly , even if I ca n't give you any references , and I will work hard , I promise . ' ' Oh , we sha n't give you any opportunity to be anything else , Miss McAllister . You 're sure you want her , Matey ? ' drawled Dr Neil , still sardonic , but his use of Miss Mates 's nickname was the final sign that he was prepared to take her on .
Idiom: meet someone halfway (used idiomatically: no)
They ca n't get hold of batteries . And then you 're gon na take 'em into Derbyshire and then they 're gon na go to Bosnia fairly quickly . They 're going to be collected alright I 'm gon na meet them halfway actually between here and Derbyshire erm at the end of November beginning of December and they are actually going , the last lorry leaves Derbyshire on the tenth of what a time I had on that , it was wonderful . That 's right .
Idiom: in the saddle (used idiomatically: yes)
By Khrushchev 's own account , Beria was arrested on the instruction of the Politburo by Marshal Zhukov and Colonel - General Moskalenko , Commander of the Moscow Air Defence District . Marshal Konev is believed to have presided at his trial . Shortly thereafter , the Party took the unusual step of assembling the Armed Forces heads and demanding their collective endorsement of Beria 's arrest — a step which might not have been judged necessary by a leadership firmly in the saddle and truly confident of its prerogatives . Four years later , Khrushchev again enlisted the support of Marshal Zhukov ( now Defence Minister ) in his struggle against the Stalinist rear guard ( the so - called ‘ anti - Party group’ ) , which had produced a Politburo majority in favour of his resignation . Thanks to Zhukov , critical Khrushchev supporters were brought to Moscow in time for the Central Committee meeting which then overturned the Politburo 's verdict .