Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in my book (used idiomatically: yes)
I shall bluff it out at least until my next dole cheque . These people seem to forget that results do not mean a thing in football and are only of secondary interest to a manager . In my book the only time a manager should consider resigning is when he starts believing his own programme notes . What these boardroom blouses and toerags at the turnstiles do not realise is that football management is not a skill to be acquired through hard work , but a gift from God . Those blessed with a prophetic vision of soccer 's future , like Mike Channon and myself , are often completely ignored or misunderstood , whereas charlatans who would not know one end of a football from another , the Reg Pybuses and Howard Wilkinsons of this world , suck up to mediocrity and call it talent .
Idiom: rough edges (used idiomatically: yes)
But can it threaten your relationship if you try to change your loved one too much ? Are women more prone than men to finding fault ? And what 's really wrong with knocking a few of the rough edges off your partner ? Andrew Lloyd - Webber 's new wife , horsewoman Madeline Gurdon , has tried to smarten him up . She 's encouraged him to cut his hair and lose weight , and still Andrew somehow ca n't help looking a little scruffy .
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: no)
The Japanese drift-net fishery for squid alone accounts for between 7000 and 14,000 Dall 's porpoise each year , and there are no reliable estimates for the incidental catch by Taiwanese and Korean drift-netters in the squid , salmon , and tuna/ billfish fisheries . Japanese scientists , however , have been denying that drift-nets have had any significant effect on Dall 's porpoise . In 1975 , Dr Seiji Ohsumi , senior biologist at the Far Seas Research Laboratory , wrote that ‘ many porpoises were incidentally caught by the salmon gill-net fisheries annually , ’ but he saw ‘ no evidence to show a decline in their population density . ’ He concluded that the population size of Dall 's porpoise was remarkably large ( it was estimated as low as 790,000 in 1983 ) , and that ‘ the effect of incidental catch was negligible . ’ In this typical example of scientific doublespeak , the burden of proof is , as usual , thrown on to conservationists to show that a fishing technique has an unacceptable effect , rather than on the fishing nations to show that the method is ecologically sound .
Idiom: couch potato (used idiomatically: yes)
Soldiers in the Australian Army are facing a new and unexpected enemy — the silence of the country 's desert regions . Army psychologists are attempting to curb fear among troops , used to life in the cities along Australia 's eastern seaboard , of the vast , still space they encounter during operations in the Outback The era of the passive media consumer — or ‘ couch potato’— may be drawing to a close if they discoveries of the ingenious Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are any indication . Media products and gadgetry on the near - horizon are likely to shift the stance of the average individual from one of passivity before a television set to one of activity when faced with ‘ Total Vision’ . Director of The Media Lab , Nicholas Negroponte , forecasts that interactive media ( next year sees the launch of Commodore Dynamic Total Vision and Compact Disc Interactive ) will mean that future generations are likely to regard our media decades as an epoch of inertia .
Idiom: strain at the leash (used idiomatically: yes)
Cut the engines and get us aboard . ' The roar decreased in volume . The shuttle stopped , trembling , as if straining at a leash . A silhouette appeared against the light streaming through the cabin doorway . ' Ace ? '
Idiom: turn the tables (used idiomatically: yes)
Erm from you from your experience in the , the negotiating of that , that kind of er deal and just from what you saw of it working in factories , er do you think that management quite explicitly sought to , to create some division or was the division that arose wh you 're talking about the fitters being on a different scheme from the other members of the workforce ? Well can I say that er if I might say so first of all , I think that the , the antipathy that existed for a period actually came more from the workshop , rather than the management . The management er clearly desired to implement the scheme er with the minimum amount of frustration er to anyone , although you 've got to understand that as an engineer working a , a big milling machine for example , if someone comes along and said er , you know you could stand that job on its side different to what you 've got it at the moment , and you could do two faces instead of one you know , by turning the table and you know , by use of various tools er decrease the time factor , there was the , it was a fear that our members may work themselves out of a job . And I was quite conscious of that . But er at that time there was plenty work coming in , erm there was , there was no need for us to be apprehensive , and so therefore we had to convince the management that in the best interests of everybody , having agreed that the scheme would go on across the whole spectrum of the workforce , was to move reasonably , you know , quickly through the various machine departments and introduce with a minimum amount of frustration .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
Yet this very fact raised two serious problems for the structure of enterprise . They concerned its supply of capital and its management . By and large the characteristic enterprise of the first half of the century had been financed privately — e.g. from family assets — and expanded by reinvesting profits , though this might well mean that , with most of capital tied up in this way , the firm might rely a good deal on credit for its current operations . But the increasing size and cost of such undertakings as railways , metallurgical and other expensive activities requiring heavy initial outlays , made this more difficult , especially in countries newly entering upon industrialisation and lacking large accumulations of private investment capital . It is true that in some countries such reservoirs of capital were already available , amply sufficient not only for their own needs but also anxious to be drawn upon ( for a suitable rate of interest ) by the rest of the world 's economy .
Idiom: night and day (used idiomatically: yes)
Like the stately swan gliding serenely over the water , few suspect that under the surface the legs and feet are going at a rate of knots , with the result that the following items are in the pipeline , if not already attended to:— 1 . The light over No . 6 which has been burning night and day for 2 months , now operates as it should — from dusk to dawn . 2 . The fencing at Groves Road is to be repaired when funds are available .
Idiom: jump the queue (used idiomatically: yes)
I remember seeing lots of traffic lights , mostly red ones , zip by and then the lights of Goodge Street underground station , some of which were still working . Then we were staggering into a hospital casualty department and I was grateful Bunny was there — they can be dangerous places on a Friday night . Rayleen helped too , or rather her uniform did , giving us a pseudo - official status which meant we could jump the queue . The fact that she could swear like a trooper and at one point told a nurse that I was a security guard escaping from a hijack attempt , also helped . I was lucky , of course .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: yes)
Erm so you have to do something now before you actually retire . Having bought back the service then erm that is what I referred to earlier as reckonable service . You to buy back however many years you buy back will count in your pension and lump sum calculation at the end of the day . Something that 's not actually mention there is withdrawn contributions . If I can just briefly mention them .
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
You must face the music , darling . I ca n't do it for you . How can I just ring her out of the blue and tell her that her daughter has married the first Italian she 's met , without telling any of us?’ ‘ Well,’ Constance wheedled , ‘ tell her I 'll be ringing with some news . You do n't need to go further than that .
Idiom: catch the sun (used idiomatically: no)
The river curved in wide sweeps through the flat of the Vale , with hedged fields surrounding it , and in the middle of one great meander there was a steep - sided hill on which the city was built . It was like a mountain of walls and houses and streets rising out of the Vale with the river curling round its feet , lapping at the high walls . The light glinted off a white tower at the very summit of the hill , and Riven caught the glitter of metal on the battlements as a helmet or spear blade caught the sun . In the river around the walls were crowds of boats filled with a multitude . Their noise could be heard even at this distance , and a hint of the smell drifted down the wind .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
the package is approved the package is accessible to the specified user i.e. the LIFESPAN module access rules are satisfied . The package structure below the specified root package is then traversed to determine which packages need to be updated to take account of the later versions of modules in the steering file and the consequential impact on all levels of the structure . In doing so it checks the following : all packages are approved
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
Subject : Re : Leeds : One up the Gary Glitter ! ! On Tue , 18 Jan 1994 , wrote : I think we 're the better all round team when playing well so a win is certainly not out of the question . The lads just have n't been doing the business over the last 2 or 3 games though have they ? The back 4/5 will have to be as solid as they have looked in recent games .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Once bent away , it could n't be bent back and the rib transfer carriage would n't transfer . So the needle had to be replaced . I 'm not sure how I bent the metal strip , but one possibility comes to mind . When the stitch is transferred to the main bed needle , the main bed needle comes forward to slide into the gap below the transfer needle and between the metal strips . If the needle was bent , it could push one of the metal strips to the side .
Idiom: at your fingertips (used idiomatically: yes)
to help teachers to use the technology to encourage learning in the children they teach . The MEP Project is largely concerned with information technology , but the fact that information skills are an important section of this £ 9 million project indicates how importantly such skills are regarded . Accordingly , it is envisaged that in the emerging society information technology will be all - pervasive and the technology will bring a world of information ‘ at your fingertips’ . Undoubtedly , the retrieval of information will be easier , organization of information will probably be better managed and there will be so much more information available at the press of a button . Some of the present generation 's problems with information will therefore recede , but they will be replaced by others : and chief amongst these are selection , interpretation and evaluation of information .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
Remember , your speech will reflect not only on those you are speaking about but upon yourself . Gathering Information Before even attempting to write your speech , take stock of the information you have to hand and see where the gaps occur . Only then should you set about researching in order to fill your speech out , make it interesting , witty , or whatever style of speech you would like to make . Beware , however , of drowning yourself in pages of notes .
Idiom: man of the cloth (used idiomatically: yes)
Steve Parcell might look like any other vicar but to the Gloucesters he 's Captain Parcell and a man of the cloth . I 'm the padre chaplain with the Gloucesters here in Ballykelly . How can a man of the cloth equate being a padre with the army ? I think very easily . I think that the first thing that one would have to say is that we work for the Ministry of Defence , and not the Ministry of War and therefore we are about defence , we 're about the maintenance of peace , erm this you know maintaining of justice etc etc .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: no)
We require not a shift in the ' balance of power and influence ' but an entirely changed modus vivendi between the two dimensions . At bottom , this critique revolves around the feeling that many groups of professionals ( in our case teachers ) are organised around professional skills rather than client needs . Wilding ( 1981 ) provides a trenchant account of this critique in the wider framework of all the social welfare professions but much of what he has to say rings many uncomfortable bells in our schools . An important qualification is that we are looking at groups of professionals and the manner in which they are organised rather than at individual teachers — at this latter level there can be little doubt that many individual teachers do respond to client needs despite the structure around them . The basic failure is perceived particularly acutely in the social welfare professions , and it is based upon a wide range of features such as the failure of some services actually to deliver the goods promised , failures of responsibility and neutrality , the loss of the service ideal and , in extreme cases , the disabling effects upon clients .
Idiom: burn the midnight oil (used idiomatically: yes)
The head of the college , Captain Lyndon Taylor , considered the pupils fortunate to have such a " thorough and gifted teacher who made the most of her cheerful and vibrant personality " . In her spare time she managed to complete her Master of Education degree , writing a thesis on African education . Ingrid and other loyal friends spent long hours burning the midnight oil with her when it came to the final typing . It was worth it . Her expertise was gaining recognition .
Idiom: in full swing (used idiomatically: yes)
She seems a little slow off the mark when she asserts that the attempt to control drugs became ‘ a War only when crack emrged’ . This is rather like saying the second world war only started when the doodlebugs started falling . Rhetorically and strategically , the war was in full swing before crack was identified as the principal enemy . ( As for the war metaphor itself , that began to appear not long after the first world war stopped . ) There are certainly pretty aperçus to be found , such as the observation that men objected to women smoking in public because one smokes for oneself : it was the display of female narcissism ( that got up their noses .
Idiom: foam at the mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
' Demented I tellee , ' Sally Dade said , revelling in this juicy bit of news that brought her so much attention . ' It 's as true as I stand here … had it from Mary Daniels as works at the Galleon . He was near foaming at the mouth she said . ' ' Oh , nonsense ! ' Salt was unable to take this exaggeration .
Idiom: buy time (used idiomatically: yes)
In the loyalist camp an intense controversy on strategy was in progress and was to continue through the following months . ( It led to the partial withdrawal of the present writer from my political party and was a factor in my decision in the following year to join with others in setting up a new political party , the British Ulster Dominion Party . ) One section of loyalists correctly forecast that the proposed constitutional convention was an exercise to buy time and that the Westminster government would ignore its recommendations as cynically as it had ignored earlier constitutionally expressed wishes of the loyalist majority . The electoral campaigning in the constituencies , they said , had to be accompanied by a strengthened UWC and mended fences with the paramilitary organisations . They urged that if the loyalist political parties were to go into the convention without having in reserve the weapon of the general strike , they would be as naked and helpless as Aneurin Bevan , the post - war foreign secretary , had said Britain would be in international councils if she were unilaterally to discard her nuclear weapons .
Idiom: from scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck . Now unless we think that dreams can unravel very fast in the mind , much faster , and there is some evidence that that 's true actually , that dreams can in fact happen quicker than you could think of them in conscious time . Nevertheless , I think Freud 's view was that er the erm , if it was a really long complicated dream , you were recalling a previous fantasy rather than er necessarily creating from scratch because of this particular stimulus . I dunno . Has anybody ha ever had a dream like that ?
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: yes)
He needed to placate Tories and his domestic critics while avoiding the economic and political havoc that would be caused by announcing an imminent referendum that might lead to the United ~ Kingdom ’s withdrawal from the EU . The time that he took to decide what he would say attests to the difficulty of squaring that circle . In fact , as Cameron ’s speech made clear , his solution to his dilemma – to buy himself short - term peace from his critics at the expense of potentially making his ( and Britain ’s ) problems more intractable in the long term – is hardly new . It was already clear that Cameron wanted to push any possibility of a referendum into the most distant possible future . The idea that he would seek to renegotiate the terms of Britain ’s EU membership is also familiar from his earlier speeches and interviews .
Idiom: make history (used idiomatically: yes)
Not surprisingly it was the study of history that gave birth to the social sciences . Yet , despite the rapid growth of these more recent subjects , history retains its traditional importance in higher education , since its social , cultural , economic and political concerns provide us with an interdisciplinary approach to problems that includes the perspectives and many of the methods of the various social sciences , yet also seeks to establish a broader , overall assessment of the issues it examines . The diversity of skills it develops makes history graduates particularly attractive to employers who seek flexibility of mind rather than specialised expertise in a single discipline . This is the case in most spheres of public and private management and administration ( eg civil service , commerce and industry ) , just as it is in public relations , sales - promotion and the media . In an age of rapidly - changing methods and technology , perception and adaptability are prime requisites for a successful applicant for employment .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: yes)
At first there seems plenty of choice to make … LASTABILITY … but at the end of the day , it really lacks depth Blue Baron Oh look , it 's Richard Branson going for another record in his big balloon — go on , bomb the bearded bigwig !
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
SEEING STARS On another hot , perfect midsummer day 40 years later , I was in Borrowdale chatting to Owd Sid from Maryport . A few weeks earlier he had phoned me out of the blue — I think he was checking to see how many of his cronies were still alive ! During a reunion in Lancaster , he suggested guiding me up some easy routes on the roadside crags in Borrowdale . Sid and Gordon contrast starkly with a climber in modern gear .
Idiom: state of the art (used idiomatically: yes)
The research team includes highly motivated materials characterisation experts ( Drs . John Barry and Tim White and Professor Gordon Dunlop ) with whom the successful applicants are expected to interact on a daily basis . The research team will be supported by state - of - the - art processing and characterisation tools and extensive workshop and technical assistance within the two departments . Successful applicants may be eligible for assistance with travel and removal expenses . Salaries for these positions depend upon experience , but range from $ 28,792 to $ 43,096 for Research Fellows and from $ 43,984 to $ 51,015 for Senior Research Fellows .
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: yes)
She snoozes until it 's time to be fed , And best double cream is churned . It goes without saying — the fireside chair Is naturally hers by right , My claim is met by her unblinking glare ,
Idiom: out to lunch (used idiomatically: yes)
Seek her advice on what is happening in your department . Give your secretary some time today and then she 'll do her best for you . Come Friday , take her out to lunch ( and make sure that it 's the best restaurant around and , furthermore , that you pay — not the company ) . REMEMBER A super - secretary is an extension of the PROFITBOSS .
Idiom: make ends meet (used idiomatically: yes)
There is no doubt that both had hard lives . Mother served her time as a dressmaker with a maiden lady who had a business in Kirkby Stephen and made a bit of money that way . But she also had to keep house for Aunt Bessie and for a lodger she had to take in to make ends meet . He was a schoolteacher and a very nice man , I understand , but there was n't much opportunity for Mother to go out and have a little enjoyment and apparently Aunt Bessie did not encourage such things . She had a sister who was much more understanding .
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: no)
There 's , there 's drugs in there , there 's drug in that house , I 'm sure Hard stuff as well as the grass . Well I , I , I 'll , what I 'll have to do is have a word with the local police on this , cos it 's not something I can deal with tonight . Oh no it was just Yeah , I 'll , I 'll bring that up for you and see what it is .