Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: put down roots (used idiomatically: no)
What a rock this can be in the shaky marriages around us . Many people start their marriages wondering how many affairs their partner has already had , and wondering if they can compete with the possibilities that might threaten them in the future . In contrast , trust is like the precious soil in which a relationship can grow and put down secure roots . This trust can be blown away or eroded . If this happens , it can take generations before trust can once more be established in a family .
Idiom: come to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
SEVEN Drunk , or mad , or stupid ? Or maybe utterly sane , perhaps it was he who could not come to grips with the topsy - turvy world they all now lived in , Edward thought . When he had come off the phone the night before and Erica had asked who it had been , he had replied , with a certain confidence and an audible distaste , ‘ Someone talking nonsense’ . But after meeting Morton , the verities had slipped once more .
Idiom: get stuck into (used idiomatically: yes)
NOW here 's an adventure yarn to set your teeth rattling , choc - a - bloc with full blown ‘ Boys Own’ sock it to 'em action . Fast paced , well acted , beautifully filmed in the famed Blue Ridge Mountains , possibly the last forested wilderness of the United States , this is a movie which insists you sit on the edge of your seat while skulls are cleaved and scalps lifted by the score . Starring cast Daniel Day - Lewis as Hawkeye , the legendary hero of Fenimore Cooper 's panoramic tale of derring - do set during the French / British wars of 1757 in and around New York State , Michael Mann 's production dispenses with any namby - pamby pretence of squeamishness and gets stuck into the gore from the opening scenes . It 's certainly not for the prissy of nature but then the original novel was also considered at the time rather racy . Daniel Day - Lewis grabs the part of Hawkeye with both hands and becomes transformed as the buckskin - clad , 18th century equivalent of Rambo , with knife and tomahawk ready .
Idiom: public enemy number one (used idiomatically: yes)
She looked at Rourke , and saw that his eyes had narrowed on her , glimmering faintly . He had no right to look at her that way . She had done nothing wrong , yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one . Into the silence she said , ‘ Yes , that 's true , I do have a key . Adam gave it to me the other day so that I could lock up .
Idiom: get it up (used idiomatically: no)
Direct pressure Elevate it Hold it up , now you 're reducing the pressure to the area because the heart 's got to pump harder to get it up there okay , so we hold the hand or the limb higher than the heart and that will reduce the pressure still further , the ends of the blood vessels contract so how can we help them to contract even more ? Direct pressure Direct pressure over the wound , not your hand but the casualty 's if they 're still conscious blood clots yes , what 's helping it to clot is a special process in the blood
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: yes)
Will he , if it remains voluntary , reassure farmers who would like to take up the scheme that the payments will not be reduced during the period for which they take it up — that is , for five or even 10 years ? Does he appreciate that the great advantage of the scheme in the Somerset Levels , which I represent and where I live , is that all parties interested in the conservation of the wildlife and landscape of the area are sitting down and talking together ? That represents a great advance and we believe that , in the long term , something valuable will come of that . Mr. Gummer My hon . Friend has put his finger on a major advantage of the situation , which is that conservationists and farmers in environmentally sensitive areas are learning to work together .
Idiom: one of those things (used idiomatically: yes)
Making inspections on cattle on page four , erm , one thousand one hundred and forty two inbred , and five hundred and twenty three bred . Is one thousand one hundred and forty two incorrect inceptions or whatever , correct , is n't that very high ? Yes , it 's the , the failure to keep bovine identification breed re records by two or three far farmers and it 's one of those things where if you 've got a lot of animals and you have n't marked them , then you get a lot of incorrects , and that 's why we 've got to go through it . So it 's just two or three people , and not ? Yes , yes , yes .
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: yes)
He beat hundreds of rival customers to win possession of one of the metallic blue XJ220s — the world 's fastest sports car . A friend said last night : ‘ It will cost a fortune to get this car back to its former glory . ‘ On a normal car some panel - beating and touching up would do the trick , but this is no normal car . ‘ The slightest bang can ruin the finely tuned engine . ‘ The car is at the garage now and Elton has been told the damage can be repaired and the car will be back on the road as soon as possible.’
Idiom: take someone for a ride (used idiomatically: yes)
32 KENT AND EAST SUSSEX STEAM RAILWAY There are 16 steam engines waiting to take you for a ride from Northiam , the setting for Anneka Rice 's famous ‘ Challenge’ , to historic Tenterden , the station seen in ITV 's ‘ The Darling Buds of May’— you can even travel in Ma Larkin 's steam train ! The seven mile journey is an experience not to be missed . 33
Idiom: live wire (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr Tom stood in front of her , pulled out his pincenez on the spring in his lapel , eyed her from her feet upwards , turning away without a word and marching , practically , straight out of the building . One of his new partners was Mr Barlow , M.P. , for whom I first worked . He was an ex - barrister , a very live wire , who could justly claim to be the founder of the present vastly expanded business . Prior to his arrival Sotheby 's ( still specialising heavily in books at this date ) had an unwritten agreement with Christie 's that they sent them any pictures brought to their offices and in return Christie 's sent them any books they received for sale . Mr ( later Sir ) Montague Barlow was astonished to hear Tom Hodge say that , of course , a fine Frans Hals must be sent to Christie 's : that was the end of the unwritten agreement .
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's not brilliant but it 's a lot better . Had to laugh yesterday towards the end of er our round , it was really tipping down , misty , fog , could n't see a hundred yards I had this almighty s I said well I 'll let the six iron , I did this almighty swing the ball went one way and the club went right up the top of a tree . It must 've been fifteen foot at least up in the air teetering on a top branch . I thought oh my god , lost me six iron , all of a sudden crash , it came down . Old Louis he did n't know which way anything had gone .
Idiom: fall short (used idiomatically: yes)
This situation is largely the result of predictable post - crisis economic dynamics , as firms and households in advanced countries repair their balance sheets . But it also reflects non - cooperative policy choices . Indeed , attempts to coordinate economic policy across the G-20 , which accounts for 85 % of global GDP , fell short of what was hoped for in 2010 . So what would a coordinated set of global economic policies look like ? First , it would include credible plans in Europe and the US to restore fiscal balance .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
Right , in this particular case it is of no serial correlation is our null hypothesis . Right so again large test statistics whether they 're Ts Fs or kie squares . Larger dis large test statistics mean rejection of the goal right erm there 's no simple rule of thumb with kie squared you just have to look at the erm actual tables to find out what the critical values are . However , latest th er Microfit not only gives you the test statistic but gives you erm the significance level , probability value er which erm that test statistic is significantly different from zero right so if we are looking at that serial correlation test statistic of two point zero eight right we would accept the null hypothesis of er no serial correlation , right , or would n't be able to reject it strictly . Would n't be able to reject the null of no serial correlation , right , until we reach fifteen percent significance level .
Idiom: nine times out of ten (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm . while her husband Yeah , if she 's got a young family , I mean , nine times out of ten it 's her that 's got to watch them rather than saying to the husband , oh I 'm off to play football dear ! See you later ! Mhm .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: yes)
Care was taken to stamp out the fire , and as Lucy watched Silas at work she was struck by his meticulous attention to detail . Her only task in the clean - up was to empty the two jam jars of snowdrops , but instead of disposing of the flowers she took them with her . Driving home in the minibus , she offered Silas an apologetic smile as she admitted , ' I had n't the heart to throw them out . ' He stared straight ahead . ' Are you hoping for something special ? '
Idiom: on paper (used idiomatically: yes)
Vince Luck was brought in as finance director from Northern Foods . Christine Jackson , a Manchester - based national officer of the Equal Opportunities Commission and personal friend of Horsley for thirty years , became Director of Personnel in charge of Equal Opportunities . After some agonizing over whether they were confident enough to do their respective jobs , ex - Big Flame member Tony Hodgson became Production Manager and Liz Cooper gave up her job as Circulation Manager of the New Statesman to take up the same position on the new paper . At the capitalization party a number of well - wishers had wandered in from the various Labour movement campaigns and organizations which shared the Caxton House office block with NoS . One of them had been Keith Sutton , taking a break from editing the anti - Murdoch strike paper , the Wapping Post , in the office below .
Idiom: no laughing matter (used idiomatically: no)
’ Clarke came across as a bit of a lad , which I suppose is what he wanted . It is a humorous response . But the result is no laughing matter . The England manager does not have the confidence of the nation . He might have the will to fight back , but everyone is asking the same question : ‘ Does he have the way?’
Idiom: bugger all (used idiomatically: yes)
Subject : good idea Whoever put in the plea for more info about injuries , reserve and general team gossip should be given an electronic pat on the back . Living up here in the wilds of Geordieland I do n't tend to find out much except what is in the national press ( in other words bugger all ) . It would be great if all you people with access to YEP , radio Leeds / Aire , Look North and programme notes could keep the rest of us informed ? From :
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: no)
Airlines opposes new environmental standards European airlines are resisting EC moves to improve their environmental standards . The airlines , facing their fourth successive year in the red , are urging the EC to drop plans to lower maximum noise levels and nitrogen oxide emissions , arguing that they could increase operating costs , reduce the resale value of operators ' fleets and put them at a competitive disadvantage to international rivals . The draft directives still have to be adopted by the European Commission , approved by EC governments and the European Parliament . New noise standards would then take effect in April 1995 , with emissions rules coming into operation in 1996 and being tightened further in 2003 .
Idiom: head over heels (used idiomatically: yes)
Is it true you have a tattoo on your body ? Yes , it 's a ripe pear on the left cheek of my bottom ! I was only 14 when I first fell head over heels for Don . I used to call him Pear , and one day I had this tattoo done . As a child actress you had some nasty moments on the film Roar , did n't you ?
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . It did occur because the depression was so er , was so long erm , but by and large , farmers do n't go out of , do n't cease erm , production just because of a couple of years of er , poor harvests or low , low prices . Right , I mean the exceptions to , to the sort of , that general sort of rule of thumb are enterprises where variable costs account for a large proportion of total costs , things like egg production , pig production , they tend to be very short run supply elasticities tend to be very high in those type of enterprises , primarily because most of the costs , alright , are tied up in , in variable costs . Alright , you do n't need expensive machinery , large amount of land , right , to produce or , or pigs . I 've got a number down here , er , seventy percent of total costs of egg production are var are variable costs , and essentially that 's the feed , the chicken feed .
Idiom: for the time being (used idiomatically: yes)
We need to be satisfied that the cost and delays that would be involved in such a course are justified both to resolve this matter and to provide the assurance that all the issues have been fully examined . We expect to come to a conclusion on that in the next few weeks . In the interim , as an earnest of the importance that we attach to this matter , my Department has today issued article 14 directions to prevent the county councils from granting permission for the applications for the time being . I will let my hon . Friend know the decision when we have made it . Question put and agreed to .
Idiom: go from strength to strength (used idiomatically: yes)
Nikolai Demidenko ‘ Nikolai Demidenko is recognised as being one of the most immensely gifted pianists of his generation … in 1985 he played with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra to a packed Ulster Hall during the Belfast Festival at Queen 's . Since then his career in the West has gone from strength to strength.’ ( Geoffrey Crankshaw , Musical Opinion , London , May 1991 ) Any festival would be proud of a comment such as that above , showing as it does that Nikolai Demidenko 's first great success in the West was with us .
Idiom: young blood (used idiomatically: yes)
Reputable to whom ? Not authority I hope . Well , that 25-yard volley makes it two - nil to the young bloods . Time for some refreshment . Dipso facto
Idiom: in the bag (used idiomatically: yes)
Date : Mon , 10 Jan 1994 10:23:51 GMT0BST Subject : jesus ! we have n't drawn Arsenal It was a very close run thing though , three balls left in the bag . Away to Oxford ca n't be too bad — could this be the year ? ? Well , it 's good to be back on the list and catching up on the mountain of messages .
Idiom: man and boy (used idiomatically: yes)
Not quite , I suggest . The collegiate and cathedral tradition in which many English singers received their training is comparable in some respects to the context in which medieval ( and Renaissance ) singers received theirs . It is one in which a repertory with a large a cappella element is cultivated on a daily basis by men and ( usually ) boys , all of them relatively young , who hold positions in a cathedral or chapel ( often for a relatively short time ) for which there is much competition . They are singers for whom singing and rehearsal are constant duties that are not always ( to say the least ) touched by concerns of high art . The prevailing notion among them is one of a versatile , professional competence , constantly kept in trim by a cappella performance , that can readily be turned to music more ambitious and enjoyable when liturgical duties are over .
Idiom: on ice (used idiomatically: yes)
Okay . Margaret . There 's a little girl fallen over on the ice . Oh ! What 's the matter ?
Idiom: under the microscope (used idiomatically: yes)
In each case it seemed clear that local adaptation was taking place , showing — as far as Pearson and Weldon were concerned — that natural selection was an effective evolutionary mechanism . The biometrical defence of Darwinism was paralleled by the work of the German biologist August Weismann ( 1834–1914 ) on the cellular basis of heredity . After doing some early work inspired by the recapitulation theory , Weismann began to study the behaviour of the reproductive cells under the microscope . When the cell nucleus was stained to bring out its internal structure , minute rodlike bodies were observed and were called ‘ chromosomes’ because they absorbed the colouring so well . By the 1880s Weismann was convinced that these chromosomes were the bearers of heredity .
Idiom: fly in the face of (used idiomatically: yes)
Just as an aside , thi this is an issue that 's currently being grappled with by Litchfield City Council , where the circumstances are erm albeit on a slightly smaller scale similar with with the historic city , and they are commissioning research on this very subject of of service pro provision in in new settlements . My second point , and it refers to again er something that Barton Willmore referred to and that 's the question er an engine of growth , and it seems to to me that that that such a settlement would become an en engine of growth in in the countryside , not least because of of the it would become self fulfilling , er and it would be the obvious sort of sink hole , as Mr Thomas said , for for subsequent land allocations , I think , erm this this point has been touched upon by both the representatives from Leeds City Councils and from Cleveland , Leeds City Council appear not to want it in the Leeds York corridor for just that reason , the representative from Cleveland , who unfortunately is n't here today erm does n't want it in the North of the county for for what I understand to be to be that same reason , erm and the Inspector at the Stone Basset erm enquiry in Oxfordshire , and I I do refer th to this in my evidence , he he drew a very similar conclusion about this when he said , and I quote , once destep once established the new town would generate a momentum of growth that would be difficult to contain , such growth , if allowed , could further harm the rural character of the countryside and the villages in this part of Oxfordshire , I think that conclusion can be applied to North Yorkshire , and I certainly have n't heard anything that would convince me that that such growth once it started could could be controlled , and indeed the the record of controlling growth against erm projected requirements in the structure plan to date has has not been good , witness earlier comments on the structure plan overshoot . I think just to conclude the the engine of growth argument , erm , has obviously been raised in relation to other new settlements , notably Cambridge and and this has been referred to already , erm the situation in Cambridge is different to York in in that the level of growth that 's that 's anticipated for that city is is is significantly higher , and the new settlement erm proposals there have been considered in in that regard and and just for the record C P R E have supported the the new settlement in that particular location , but it does seem to me that the returning to your basic point , that that erm if one applies those circumstances in Nor North Yorkshire it does fly in the face of of established policy in the structure plan , and the overriding er policy is is one of restraint in what is is considered to be one of the country 's most sensitive environmental areas , thank you . Thank you . Er Mr Brook , and then Mr Curtis .
Idiom: in the saddle (used idiomatically: yes)
Egon Wertheimer had written not long before : After the inglorious fall of his Government , accompanied as it was by a whole series of faux pas , Ramsay MacDonald 's future , crowed the wiseacres of London , was not worth a single cent . Yet he sits more firmly in the saddle than ever . His leadership was never less disputed than at the present moment . For this his ability to compromise and reconcile is beyond doubt responsible in part .
Idiom: down at heel (used idiomatically: yes)
Only the historic fact that he gave the Irish capital the first public performance of what would become the most popular of all oratorios . Played at the New Music Hall , Fishamble Street 250 years ago tomorrow . The live anniversary performance of Messiah by George Frederic Handel ( C4 , Monday : 8.30–11.40 pm ) will be given some way from down - at - heel Fishamble Street at the Point Theatre . The first playing was dedicated to various charitable purposes . The 1992 performance , to be marketed for audio and video use , will benefit the Planet 24 company of producer Tony Boland and Bob Geldof .
Idiom: hit the road (used idiomatically: yes)
If I chanced to hit the right road , I should certainly get into the midst of the robber band and be beaten because I had no money ; if I did not find the road , I should be beaten of course .
Idiom: make a meal of (used idiomatically: yes)
Penelope Huntley , who would very much have liked to have gone on with the discussion , found herself swept out of the office , and walked slowly down the road , flushed with a mixture of disappointment and excitement . In New Scotland Yard John McLeish was trying , increasingly irritably , to clear his desk so he could go home . Bruce Davidson was making a meal of explaining a straightforward case essentially because he was trying to impress Catherine Crane . Not that he was succeeding ; Sergeant Crane was sitting , legs crossed , only just not fidgeting , as Bruce Davidson wore on through a lot of unnecessary detail . It was unprecedented for any woman to have that effect on Davidson , whose success in this field was legendary .
Idiom: too clever by half (used idiomatically: yes)
A month later , with polling day only two weeks away , Baldwin took the lucky chance of a long - standing ‘ non - political’ engagement to address the Peace Society in the Guildhall and used the occasion to tilt the balance in a still more pacific direction . It was one of the last of his evocative flights of homespun philosophy . There was a lot of ‘ this dear , dear land of ours’ , of ‘ the level evening sun over an English meadow’ , of ‘ the rooks tumbling noisily home into the elms’ , but there was also a good ringing pledge in which the ambiguity , although present , was neither obvious nor too clever by half . ‘ I give you my word’ , he said , ‘ that there will be no great armaments.’ A correspondent of The Times thought it was ‘ like the first hearing of a great symphony’ , and Harold Laski , never one to be outdone in either flattery or hyperbole , wrote to Baldwin that it was ‘ the greatest speech a Prime Minister has ever made’ .
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
And it 's all done with flashing eyes , waving arms , tossed heads and wringing hands . Eventually the women pick out what they want , the traders praise their keen eyes and good sense — at least , I assume that 's what they 're praising . Money changes hands and everyone is delighted.’ ‘ You 've had yourself quite a time,’ Nathan observed . His mouth curved in amusement , but his narrowed gaze was thoughtful , as though her observations had surprised him .
Idiom: turn a blind eye (used idiomatically: yes)
Indeed , several tenth - century royal consorts are shadowy figures of doubtful legitimacy , and it is possible that Æthelred 's first , who like Ælfgifu of Northampton never witnesses charters , was not a fully - married wife . Even so , churchmen must have disagreed with Cnut 's behaviour , although perhaps many did so diplomatically , that is to say , silently . However much Cnut may have played the Christian king , he was , like other rulers , willing to turn a blind eye to church teaching when it suited him . THE USES OF RELIGION : CNUT , PIETY AND CHRIST All the same , most of the time it was expedient to follow where the church led .