Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
( 2 ) The aggregate Community turnover of each of at least two of the parties concerned is more than 250,000,000 ( two hundred and fifty million ) ECU . As an exception the Merger Regulation does not apply if a merger has its primary impact within one Member State . This is the case where more than two thirds of the Community turnover of each party concerned in the merger is in one and the same Member State . In such circumstances the provisions of national merger control will apply . There are special provisions for banks and other financial institutions , for which turnover is replaced by a calculation based on the ratio of assets to loans and for insurance companies , for which turnover is replaced by gross premiums .
Idiom: fight shy of (used idiomatically: yes)
This chapter outlines the main changes which are taking place in the spatial distribution of the British population and examines the migration patterns which form the principal mechanism behind these trends . Particular attention is given to the accentuation of the drift from North to South since the late 1970s , the current scale of population deconcentration from the major metropolitan centres to smaller towns and more rural areas , and the emerging population patterns in the so - called ‘ inner city areas’ . Each of these constitutes a traditional area of policy concern , but with the exception of the New and Expanded Towns programme and half - hearted attempts at assisting labour mobility , successive governments have tended to fight shy of the direct management of migration and population distribution , preferring to use indirect measures affecting the location of jobs and housing . Because this approach appears to generate some undesirable side - effects , this chapter concludes by arguing that closer attention should be given to more direct ways of influencing migration patterns . These should be aimed at reducing tendencies towards social polarization and at achieving a better matching of people with appropriate jobs and local facilities , thereby increasing not only individuals ' quality of life but also the efficiency of public and private investment .
Idiom: look the other way (used idiomatically: yes)
How could she have known , I thought , and not done anything about it ? Now I 'm not so sure . She would have had every reason to look the other way . Besides … .’ She stopped .
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
this morning in our statement . I read that as well . Well unless there are any other issues that people want to rai any other items people want to raise on this issue , I propose we close now , resume at ten o'clock in the morning , and we will go straight into matters , well matter two C , to look at the di criteria . Thank you . Can I remind you we will not be sitting after lunch tomorrow , but what I would hope is we could probably deal with C and E in the morning , b by one o'clock .
Idiom: see stars (used idiomatically: no)
We have a per capita consumption 25 per cent below that of the Swedes and the Argentinians , 30 per cent below the Americans , 40 per cent below the Belgians and Swiss , and 50 per cent below the French , Germans and Japanese . I say to ministers : put this particular bottle of ineffective medicine in the cupboard and forget about it . Seeing silver stars Heather Couper recalls the early days of London 's Planetarium MANY HAPPY returns to the London Planetarium — 25 years old this weekend .
Idiom: get stuck in (used idiomatically: yes)
We know there 's a problem and we 've all gone back in and . Er this week 's production sheet er and I wonder of Ian could bear in mind that he should try and keep an extra ten tonne when he 's looking at his reserves here just in case and we do n't get stuck in the middle of an export . He 'd already he 'd seen the bags going up and he 'd already got that in his head . But you see he knows he 's got ta keep something back .
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
You can Pick the other one up as well . And then you put that down where you think is the right place and you get really pissed off cos it 's moving really slowly and moving the board outline as well . Yeah ? It picks up the board outline .
Idiom: no sweat (used idiomatically: yes)
If only he could keep in touch with that centre of himself , which somehow , mysteriously , enabled him to do this acting business — then all the rest would be his . Far from arriving at Exeter College , Oxford , in April 1944 as a grateful Jude the Obscure , he roared into the University apparently ready for anybody . The RAF training was no sweat , thanks to Philip 's crack preparation in the ATC . The University work was not difficult — English and Italian . It was out of season for rugby and so he had plenty of roving time and the nights were growing longer .
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
The North Shore of the island of Oahu is a land of full - time contemplatives . There , water - gazing is a way of life . If you turn your head seawards as you drive along the Kam Highway , you will find a ribbon of water - gazers between you and the sea . They might be surfers looking for surf , or spectators looking for surfers , but mostly they are just wave - watchers , bearing witness to the shifting moods of the ocean , timing the pulse of the patient . Hawaiians on the North Shore are the exegetes of the Pacific , expert in deciphering the ocean .
Idiom: free rein (used idiomatically: yes)
Without her , British government attitudes could change . Mr Major sounded chilly in his first meeting with the Israeli prime minister , Yitzhak Shamir , and Mr Hurd was rudely snubbed during his visit to Jerusalem in October , after the Temple Mount killings . So , goes the conspiracy , the Foreign Office can now give free rein to its instinctive Arabism . Since it is also instinctively pro - European , as well as pro - Arab , Britain will adhere to a tougher European line on Israel after the war , even at the risk of offending the Americans . It sounds a convincing theory .
Idiom: an old flame (used idiomatically: yes)
get you out of my mind . Mealticket Song Me and my old flame came wining - and - dining At this restaurant .
Idiom: jump to conclusions (used idiomatically: yes)
This is an important medium in the school , since a fair proportion of teachers do not actually teach the pupils they hear talked about . Its effect was described to me by a white probationary teacher : A lot of teachers jump to conclusions about pupils before they 've even come into contact with them and broken through the pupil 's resentment . They jump to these conclusions and these conclusions are passed round in the staffroom . You only have to sit in there and you hear the rumours and the gossip that 's going around and the thing is , in the staffroom it 's always the bad kids that are talked about , never the good ones , which I suppose makes sense in a way , but as a new teacher , you come in , you hear these rumours like , I used to hear rumours about Kevin ( an Afro - Caribbean pupil ) and I thought , ‘ Oh , God , I 'll have to watch out for Kevin , everybody thinks he 's a trouble - maker and that means he 's bound to be in my class’ , but I mean it 's not as simple as that , it really is n't …
Idiom: on paper (used idiomatically: yes)
and curl it Mm . display it on the top she saved on wrapping papers and the bows want to get some petrol , have to get some get some what did you ask in Guilford to what , why you asked for B H S about ? , erm do you think erm It 'll come to me
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: no)
I had forty or fifty thousand in hundreds . The bills were n't sequentially numbered or marked in any of the large variety of ways I could imagine . I wadded one into my shoulder holster as an ace in the hole , packing it down with the gun . Then I made a fist - sized roll of the rest and shoved it into my deepest pocket . You were never entirely safe from prying fingers in Chinatown , but I had to give it my best shot .
Idiom: in the offing (used idiomatically: yes)
The board is based upon LSI 's embedded version of the R3000 , called the LR33020 Graph X Controller , supports 25/33 and 40MHz operations . Other competitors also gunning for the R3000 X - terminal market are Integrated Device Technology Inc and Performance Semiconductor Corp. At the same time , Intel Corp and Motorola Inc are also in the offing with their versions of chips for X - terminals . The Racer X Board comes in two versions , an 8-bit colour or monochrome unit . Both versions include 4Mb of RAM expandable to 8Mb .
Idiom: take a bow (used idiomatically: no)
‘ Come into the garden , Maude.’ Albert clasped his hands together in front of his chest and looked suitably forlorn . The song ended and Albert took a bow . Next , he sang about ‘ Wine Flowing in the Garden of Eden’ and then got the audience swaying gently from side to side to the tune of ‘ My Jane , my Pretty Jane’ . ‘ The Flying Falcons,’ bellowed the Chairman , as the stage became alive with muscular men leaping and somersaulting .
Idiom: make history (used idiomatically: yes)
This is an utterly tentative suggestion ; but the question ‘ To what is the image true?’ clearly deserves some sort of answer . The Zuwaya and the manufacture of history It is necessary to consider how tribesmen made history and what social relations underlay their production of knowledge about the past . Among the Zuwaya history was not a specialized occupation ; the relations were for the most part those of patrilineal descent . The framework of analysis was not narrative nor progressive nor dialectical but genealogical .
Idiom: sweep the board (used idiomatically: yes)
By Geoffrey Norris MAXIM Vengerov dazzled everyone who heard his winning playing at the 1990 Carl Flesch Violin Competition in London . So much so that , when the various category prizes were announced , he all but swept the board . Jury , audience and critics ( including me ) were overwhelmingly pro Vengerov , whether he was performing Bach , Beethoven or Paganini . He is not yet 20 , but his technical control , confidence , brilliance and intellectual depth display an outstanding maturity .
Idiom: neck and neck (used idiomatically: yes)
Sources within Coopers suggest that Deloitte in Australia will shortly announce it is to side with Coopers , and the firm is confident that the Canadians will follow suit . The position in Canada is critical . Both Coopers and Touche are neck and neck in the market place with the Canadian firm , Deloitte Samson , just a fraction behind . If the Deloitte firm joins with Coopers , Touche Ross , as a representitive of DRT , will be at a huge disadvantage and the gloabl aspiriations of DRT will be utterly wrecked . If that happens , the logic behind the Deloitte strategy will have disappeared and some in the profession are predicting that Deloitte US may have to admit defeat and reconsider its position .
Idiom: hammer and tongs (used idiomatically: yes)
Jack was confused but I was not . I knew what Mum was talking about . Then they really went at it , hammer and tongs — so loudly , in fact , that neither of them heard or noticed Dad enter the room . I coughed loudly and scraped my foot on the floor to draw their attention to who was standing quietly listening to them rowing . ‘ I owe five pounds an ' some interest if yer must know,’ Mum shouted .
Idiom: far and away (used idiomatically: yes)
The pinafore version naturally needed a blouse and items in unbleached white cotton were the cheapest of all to produce . This realization led to several white calico garments ; fulsome petticoats , frilled blouses and fancy nightdresses being the most obvious , all of them generous with material . Moira is convinced that ‘ at this stage there was no conscious effort to recreate the past in the styles — one thing just led to another — but there was in terms of the prints ; with old reference books proving far and away the best place to find ideas.’ By 1969 Laura was spending much of her time poring over old books — the endpapers of novels were a rich source of small prints as were old plates , teapots , and patchwork quilts , in fact anything that caught her eye in a variety of odd shops . And she had begun to form a unique library of prints she liked .
Idiom: dead meat (used idiomatically: no)
It was provided with a direct link to the London and North - Western 's Camden Station and so animals were driven direct to it from the trains . Wolverhampton , Bristol , Shrewsbury , and Liverpool also built new cattle markets close to railway stations . The dead - meat trade increased in the 1860s as a result of restrictions on the movement of live cattle in order to control the spread of cattle plague . It was a vital part of the railway freight business . Seymour Clarke , General Manager of the Great Northern Railway , told the 1869 Parliamentary Select Committee on the transit of animals that his company sent meat from almost all the 197 stations on its lines .
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: no)
COMPARISONS are never more odious than when they involve children . But nevertheless this week 's startling news that Nicholas MacMahon , the four - year - old Mozart - loving computer genius , could talk and read before he was a year old set me wondering about my own wild - eyed nine - month - old infant . I mean , he seems to share many of Nicholas 's earliest baby reactions — an extremely low boredom threshold , a destructive reaction to toys and household objects and a born love of music ( well , he can bang a saucepan lid in time to the theme tune of Neighbours ) . The more I read of the early months of Nicholas MacMahon the more convinced I became that I too was rearing a prodigy . I even bought a set of those flash cards with pictures and words such as Cat , Dog , Rabbit , Mummy and Daddy in my attempt to awake in him a hunger for knowledge .
Idiom: on top of the world (used idiomatically: yes)
Voice over The Grand Prix season roars back into life this weekend . Nigel Mansell and the Williams team from Didcot are on top of the world with three straight wins … already Mansell is in provisional pole position for Sunday 's Barcelona Grand Prix . Cheltenham Town have a relegation battle on their hands tomorrow in the GM Vauxhall Conference … they have to beat Welling United at Whaddon Road to stand any chance of staying up . Gloucestershire have not been faring well in the Benson and Hedges Cup .
Idiom: leave well alone (used idiomatically: no)
Worrell had achieved any captain 's dream of knowing that his players would give their last drop of sweat just for him . After so many years , there was little about the game that he did not know , and tactically he was a highly skilled operator who , his players knew , would stay calm in a crisis . Undoubtedly , he was a conservative captain rather than an adventurous one — James records that Worrell once said to him ‘ In cricket you leave well alone’ , which , James felt , went deep into his method as a captain — but , for all that , he was not afraid of making changes if he felt they were needed . A famous one was dropping Ramadhin before the third Test in Australia and replacing him with Gibbs , whose Test career thus far had been fairly ordinary ; Gibbs took eight wickets in the match to see his team home and was under way as a real Test bowler . James gives an account of one of these wickets which shows Worrell 's tactical ability .
Idiom: fall short (used idiomatically: yes)
The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims . The handsome and sombre costumes , historically accurate , are relieved by colour only in the auto - da - fe , which seemed to belong to another production and signally failed to make the flesh creep , even when the fire was lit in the victims ' underground cage . Such a heroic venture requires heroic singing , and that is where it seemed this enthralling evening would fall short of its target . Edmund Barham 's wooden acting as Carlos would have mattered less if he had been vocally more alluring and if his stilted phrasing had taken a hint from Mark Elder 's conducting . He is a good tenor , and it was a good effort , but in this Verdi role that is not enough .
Idiom: tongue in cheek (used idiomatically: yes)
No - one spoke for five minutes as they both glorified in the sun and the light fresh breeze . Yanto finally broke the silence . ‘ I suppose you 'll be off to Colonel Murchison 's this afternoon with this weather and all?’ he said , with tongue in cheek . ‘ I thought.’ Selwyn 's reply was interrupted by Renee Nelmes 's shrill voice as she yelled out of the bar room window at two boys who were playing on the roof of the concrete pillbox built in the far comer of the pub 's front lawn .
Idiom: hard cheese (used idiomatically: yes)
There was a lot of Low fat cheese . Hard cheese . Just near er M forty two there 's a lot of er roadworks and there were a I 've just had me friends down from er
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: no)
Such differences as there were would be short - term ones , such as problems for sterling or changes in interest rates . He had not been able to identify any change over the past 50 years which could be linked with the economic policy of any party . In the long term , he said , the government would not take us out of the recession ; the recession would work out naturally . He believed that the government had lost credibility , first by denying that any recession ever existed , then by claiming it was only minor , then by claiming that though perhaps it was severe the recovery was just around the corner . The outcome of this was that if finally recovery did actually start , no - one would believe them .
Idiom: turn the screw (used idiomatically: yes)
Despite greasy conditions which made handling difficult , Aussie full - back Gary Jack again proved an inspiration — sparking the first try after 20 minutes . He raced 50 yards up the right before the ball was swept left for David Plange to dive over . Mark Aston added the touchline kick to his earlier penalty — and then turned the screw with a drop goal . Just before half - time prop Craig O'Brien rounded off some brilliant Hull KR handling to give the 2,844 crowd something to shout about , Mike Fletcher adding the goal . But Eagles sub Hugh Waddell set up a try for winger Mark Gamson after 58 minutes , and loose forward Tony Farrell went in from 20 yards to confirm their superiority .
Idiom: body blow (used idiomatically: yes)
ROGER WESTERN/ Leader Voice over Just when there 's talk of the recession at least loosening its grip comes a body blow to Gloucestershire 's economy . The engineering firm , Meco is to close its plant at Ashchurch near Tewkesbury , making around 350 staff redundant . The local defence industry 's already suffered from Government cutbacks , now the demise of British coal mining appears to be taking its toll .
Idiom: at the crossroads (used idiomatically: yes)
For one thing Miss Martineau writes well ( although her editor might have dampened an American passion for ' inside of ' and ' outside of ' , and corrected her mistaken belief that Boeing made McDonnell Douglas 's DC-10 airliner ) . She also writes with purpose . When a car drives slowly into her taxi , stationary at a traffic - clogged crossroads , it is more than the stupid accident it would be in London , New York or Sydney . Because the taxi should not have been there , the car - driver expected it to move — even though it plainly could not . As Miss Martineau points out , ' expecting something to happen because it should ' is very Japanese , an automatic consequence of Japanese society 's rigid order .
Idiom: go through the motions (used idiomatically: yes)
The government should declare a willingness this evening to put some energy or resources into maximising electoral turn out among E C voters . The importance of ensuring a high turnout amongst E C nationals surely warrants something more than the complacency and drift that has come to characterise this government 's whole policy towards the European community . Tonight Mr Deputy Speaker , the Conservatives have gone through the motions . Law and treaty demand that boundaries be withdrawn er be redrawn and E C citizens given the vote . These orders fulfil that bear minimum and it will be left to others to do that job well .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
Is there any other team of middle initials to match the A match ? Well , the Cs looked promising to begin with , with R.C. Russell and C.C. Lewis to kick it off in style , but after finding a find opening pair in B.C. Broad and T.C. Middleton , and two more seam bowlers in M.C. Ilott and G.C. Small , I ran out of likely candidates , although two Kent discards , S.C. Goldsmith and M.C. Dobson , could be in the running . Eventually , I realised that the only side to match the As are the Js . He is my J. squad : A.J. Stewart , D.J.
Idiom: from scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
There is a danger here in that some of the material contained in a past report may be outdated , so look out for this and revise where necessary . A further danger is that adaptation may mix different individual styles and make for poor reading . Nevertheless , it should be rare to have to draft a common report from scratch . Do read other reports , including those of competitors , that are available . For example , parts of a report on one medium - sized company in the plastics industry may contain data relevant to your report on the industry , and creative swiping is common in business , provided your report is internal .
Idiom: pull the plug (used idiomatically: yes)
THE Ireland women 's hockey squad will travel to Italy for a weekend training camp in November as part of the build - up to next year 's World Cup finals in Dublin . Although precise details have still to be firmed up , Terry Gregg 's panel are likely to face the Italians in two friendly internationals . It has also been agreed that Italy will pay a reciprocal visit to Dublin in April when they will take part in a Four Nations competition to replace the Home International championships , following England 's decision to pull the plug on the domestic series last season . Wales have also confirmed that they will be taking part and Ireland 's other opponents have still to be determined . OLYMPICS
Idiom: break someone's heart (used idiomatically: yes)
Resentment . That was what it had been , what she had felt all along , she accepted a little later when she was in a state to sort and make sense of shocking new knowledge . She had always resented Luke , and feared the way he made her feel — because she must have sensed from the beginning the power he could and did have over her ; because he had deprived her of himself when he had had her dismissed from that very first job back in South Africa ; because something had led him to misjudge and despise her , and he was unable to see the truth ; because she had always known that he could break her heart … As he had just broken it . Her looted heart , first ransacked of all that she had to give and then shattered .