Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: on the fly (used idiomatically: yes)
To achieve this you must buy textbooks , for otherwise all the effort that we have expended in writing this book for your benefit will have been wasted and we do n't like wasting effort . If you are to get the best from our book , you must keep buying other people 's books also , and hoard them as a precious collection . Put your name on an inner page as well as on the fly - leaf and do n't lend them . Of course , we hope that you will not just browse through our book in a bookshop , as you may well be doing now , but will buy and use it ! It will pay you dividends , so long as you do n't say " Silly old codgers " and put it on a top shelf .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Correct me if I m wrong , but did nt R5 imply from their commentry / report that 1 ) Rods ' goal was deflected horrendously past Southall and 2 ) Their goal was due to good play and a flash of inspiration by Snodin ? ? Well , from what I saw Rods ' goal was a very good goal — driven into the corner , and their goal was a short corner kick which was hit hopefully into the box … everyone was running out ( as you do ) but Wetherall had done extremely well and was covering the cross perfectly as a couple of Everton players lurked hopefully near the far post . Wetherall then stumbled and fell over on the appalling pitch in the centre of the 6 yard box ( as he was correctly keeping his eye on the incoming ball ) . This left 3 or 4 Everton players with a free attempt at goal … which they almost contrived to cock up . In other words bad luck .
Idiom: anything goes (used idiomatically: yes)
They have not appreciated that Brian Way in advocating so many exercises in direct experience was desperately and effectively fighting a battle against second - hand learning which characterises so much of our traditional ‘ empty pitcher’ view of education . Thus Brian Way opened the door to all kinds of activities ( games , relaxation exercises , ‘ warm - ups’ and sensitivity exercises , etc . ) to be done in the name of drama . The popular view expressed was that ‘ anything goes’ , because ‘ drama is life’ . It took Chris Day ( 1975 ) , writing eight years after Brian Way , boldly to affirm that , ‘ Drama … is not life’(p . 3 ) . I also suggest that much of the bewilderment felt by teachers about the nature of the subject that they were teaching can be traced to both Brian Way 's and Dorothy Heathcote 's disclaimer that drama could be important in itself .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
When Engles therefore tries to explain the passage from the second stage to the gens stage he has no theoretical tools to deal with this , and he lamely has to echo Morgan and to explain the passage in Darwinian terms dealing with natural selection . According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better . Such an explanation , quite apart from being completely wrong , is extraordinary in the light of the fact that both Marx and Engels warn throughout their work that biological models are inappropriate to human societies . What it does show , is just how much of a theoretical problem Engels had made for himself in creating this highly problematical gens stage of history where there were no divisions of any kind . The stage of the matrilineal gens was associated by Morgan and Engels with the higher stage of savagery .
Idiom: mum's the word (used idiomatically: yes)
She spoke coolly . ‘ And it might lead to an investigation of my own background.’ ‘ So , mum 's the word . And why tell me all this?’ ‘ I have to talk to someone .
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: no)
It did n't , I did and clad in my cagoule , glasses steamed up , and mouthing curses at the weather , I walked through the grey rain to Attermire and back to Malham . I 'd like to say that I remember something about the rest of that walk but I do n't , only that it rained , then it rained some more , and when it got fed up with that , it rained again . I reached the Buck Inn just at opening time and stood by the fire steaming so much that two Swedish students got lost in the fog going to the gents .
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
Large stones of lesser quality are also usually sold with a certificate of provenance . But in picking melees ( mixtures ) of medium - quality gems between a fifth and half a carat the kidnappers had gone for an area of the trade that is almost uncontrollable . These stones are the bread and butter of the manufacturing and retailing jewellers around the world , changing hands in packages of several hundred at a time without certification . Any manufacturing jeweller would honestly be able to take over a consignment of several hundred , especially if he were offered a 10 or 15 per cent discount on market price . Transferred into the settings around larger stones , they would simply disappear into the trade .
Idiom: pure and simple (used idiomatically: yes)
( ibid . ) And in language identical to that used in the Municipal Alliance critique of the Labour council declared that their object was to see that the society returned to sane management , and elected only business men who would look after the society 's interests first , and seeing that the present majority favoured representation by socialists only , they should be fought one by one as they appeared for re - election , until the confidence of the membership , at present abused and outraged , was restored , and the society stood for co - operation pure and simple . ( ibid . ) The Reform Committee set its sights on the quarterly meeting later that month .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
That could cause difficulties and if such an inhibition operated which did not apply to other bus companies it could make it difficult for management-employee buy-out teams to raise funds . However we are keen to see employees participating in their companies through share ownership . The more substantial that share ownership , the more voice employees will have in the running of their company and over issues such as change of ownership . In privatising the Scottish Bus Group in the pattern we have chosen , we aim to set up a number of new , viable independent bus companies which will ensure healthy competition . We obviously want to see those companies continue as viable units .
Idiom: work wonders (used idiomatically: yes)
The placebo effect One intriguing aspect of illness is that it can often be ‘ cured’— at least temporarily — by any form of medical attention . A medical investigation or injection can work wonders , and a course of tablets is almost as good . This phenomenon is known as the placebo effect , placebo being a Latin word that means ‘ I shall be pleasing’ . Research shows that over a third of people in pain get relief from inert tablets that they believe to be painkillers .
Idiom: from the horse's mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
Allen thought this ‘ a very ingratiating - type comment’ with no substance and no meaning ; he did not even make a note of it . Central America was not his patch , anyway . Having discounted that source , Allen next heard it from the horse 's mouth . Discussing with North in September 1986 how the arms - sales creditors could be paid off , he was alarmed to hear him say ‘ Well , maybe we 'll have to take it out of the reserves.’ Allen thought the statement ‘ devastating … little wheels clicked in my mind , that all my fears were probably true.’
Idiom: blow someone's mind (used idiomatically: yes)
I was beginning to get desperate . Drastic measures were called for . I sat down at the keyboard blowing my mind with Puccini . If all else fails this usually works and thus my eye fell upon my indoor tank , beneath the window , and currently occupied by six Uaru amphiacanthoides . Slowly a ‘ What if crept into my mind .
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: yes)
Cleo could not understand why Dauntless was not similarly enchanted by the place . Once they 'd come out of the house , he 'd shaken himself free of the women and had now adopted a surly silence . He 'd made no move to leave , however , and scuffed along behind them . Apanage glided forward beside Cleo , her robe trailing along the ground . One of the monstrous hounds had followed her out of the main house and now pressed close to her legs .
Idiom: squeaky clean (used idiomatically: yes)
Eager , mean hands immediately seized the telephone , and Mr Strange was " done " . Of course he was wrong , and like the Murphy Cup competitors , he admitted it . Another hero with foot and mouth disease , feet of clay and a mouth less than squeaky clean . But , surely , these were not such heinous " crimes " . No - one else on the course was harmed or hindered , unlike in the infamous case in California some 10 years ago , when one Jim Brown was convicted of beating , then choking , an opponent following an argument over where a ball should be marked on the green .
Idiom: cuckoo in the nest (used idiomatically: yes)
What a word ! It was love he was beginning to experience , and what a joke that was . How could he be falling in love with the beautiful cuckoo in his nest who was exactly the sort of pampered darling a poor doctor ought to avoid ? When she had tired of her games she would take wing and fly away , and even if she stayed , how likely would it be that she could ever settle down as that poor doctor 's wife ? He too realised that Matey was not pleased , but it was not their late arrival which was troubling her , but something else , as soon became apparent .
Idiom: by the book (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah is a lot further up er what it says in the book , no way near them Yeah you ca n't set it by the book so I just , you know Till it sounded right
Idiom: full of beans (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Hey , I say , chin up . No calamity in this house , eh ? Mama 's full of beans.’ ‘ She 's very tired.’ ‘ Take her to the sun .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: yes)
Matters are made easier for us in the United Kingdom since the time zone that all others are related to is that which passes through England — Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT ) . Countries to the east of us are in time zones with local time that is ahead of GMT , whereas local time and the time zones to the west are delayed with respect to ours . for example , when it is 4 o'clock in the afternoon ( 1600 ) — in England , it is 11 o'clock in the morning ( 1100 ) in New York ( 5 time zones to the west ) , 8 o'clock in the morning ( 0800 ) in Los Angeles ( 8 time zones to the west ) , 8 o'clock in the evening ( 2000 ) in Abu Dhabi ( 4 time zones to the east ) , and midnight ( at the end of the day ) in Singapore ( 8 time zones to the east ) . The position is complicated in 2 ways . first , countries modify local time by 1 or 2 hours , according to whether it is winter or summer , in order to make more use of the daylight hours .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
Shelley was laughing now , feeling that ease that happened more frequently these days , the ease that came when they were together and became , quite suddenly and pleasantly , totally relaxed with each other . He drove along a narrow private stony path . ‘ There is a regular bus service from Monte Samana for the guests , but this is the way the natives come , straight over the hill.’ He rounded a sharp bend , and suddenly the deep blue Mediterranean lay there , a secluded cove with an outcrop of dark rocks , and a semi - circular sandy bay . ‘ Oh , it 's lovely,’ breathed Shelley .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: yes)
Traders get away with such cruel treatment because of the general lack of control and concern on the part of airlines and airports . Heathrow , which has implemented some controls , is avoided by traders who realise that a stop over could result in a costly hold up and even prosecution . But even Heathrow has a long way to go . In 1985 the EIA published Injury , Damage to Health and Cruel Treatment , a report on the appalling conditions of transported wildlife . On the international scene nothing much has changed over the past five years , here are some examples of what they found :
Idiom: make head or tail of (used idiomatically: yes)
Then she telephoned Eliot at home and after that was about to leave when Shildon came , apologetic and saying he had met somebody who had delayed him . He sipped the lager she bought him and then he said : ‘ Tell me what Ruby was up to . Rosie said something about keys but I could n't make head or tail of it.’ Covering her impatience , she told him that some keys similar to MacQuillan 's desk keys had been found and Ruby had been trying to divine from them the identity of their owner . Then she got him to talk about his investigation .
Idiom: make the cut (used idiomatically: yes)
2 Lay the vinyl in place with surplus curling up the wall . Make easing cuts at external and internal corners . Err on the short side and cut a little further as necessary 3
Idiom: make the cut (used idiomatically: yes)
using ultrasound to break up kidney stones angioplasty ( clearing furred - up blood vessels ) keyhole surgery , where surgeons operate through small punctures in the skin instead of making a large cut , viewing their patients ' organs via an endoscope and watching the process on a screen removing the womb lining instead of doing a hysterectomy . MIT reduces the trauma of an operation and avoids long hospital stays and recovery periods .
Idiom: take it easy (used idiomatically: yes)
She pulled away from him . He closed in on her . ' Take it easy , ' he murmured . ' We 're almost out of here . ' ' Get off me ! ' she shouted .
Idiom: in bed with (used idiomatically: no)
‘ We can talk about anything you please,’ he dismissed the protest indifferently , but then the hand that had slid up to her hip tightened possessively . ‘ Only Jones is banned . I wo n't have him here in bed with us.’ Later , when they lay quiet and apart once more , Maria thought about his attitude , adding it to the oddly driven way in which he had just made love to her . He had been fiercely possessive , racked by an agony of passionate wanting and yet somehow retaining sufficient control to assert his mastery , denying her fulfilment , waiting until she was almost weeping with desire , as if he needed to hear her husky throbbing pleas confirming his dominion in the relationship .
Idiom: larger than life (used idiomatically: yes)
Sir Cyril backing arson repair appeal By Andrew Forgrave Daily Post Staff LARGER - than - life Liberal Democrat Sir Cyril Smith is to throw his weight behind an appeal to raise funds for repairs to the fire - ravaged offices of Liverpool MP David Alton . The 29-stone former Rochdale MP immediately offered to help after hearing of the disaster that befell his Liberal Democrat colleague . And former Liverpool City Council leader , Sir Trevor Jones , has volunteered to act as appeal treasurer .
Idiom: hold court (used idiomatically: yes)
The very sound of his name makes my sense of humour evaporate . Every encounter became a challenge , a test of strength . For hours at night he held court immediately over our hatch , inches above our heads . His audience was the crew , and the language their own , but he knew we sensed the content of the canisters of venom dropped into our claustrophobic sanctum . Old Ladjang remonstrated with him quietly , but the others were silent , and we realized that our captain was infecting them with a subtle but poisonous hostility towards us .
Idiom: off the beaten track (used idiomatically: yes)
It sleeps eight comfortably , and rents for between £ 352 and £ 489 each for a week if eight share , including hire of one car and flights , or £ 449 to £ 699 each if four take it . These examples are from Meon Villas ; not the cheapest company around , but with about the best choice of villas and apartments on the Algarve and , because it is largely a family - run company , it has an excellent reputation for looking after its customers ( 0730 66561 ) . Away from the Algarve , it 's not hard to get off the beaten track . The road up the west coast from Lagos to Lisbon , 150 miles away , takes you through a typically Portuguese mix of urban sprawl ( around the multi - fly - overed town of Sines , ) lovely countryside ( cork forests bordering a 30-stretch of beach between Sines and Tróia ) , and enchanting old towns ( such as Santiago do Cacém ) . Here the narrow streets lead to a town square shaded with trees .
Idiom: get a move on (used idiomatically: yes)
Rory moved near the stage , behind the tables where Kenneth and Mary sat , talking to mum . Boring Hamish and the horse - resembling Antonia were on the floor , him in a kilt , her still in her white bridal gown , both dancing badly and out of time , but seemingly thoroughly enjoying themselves . ‘ Well,’ he heard his mum saying , ‘ you two had better get a move on , or Hamish and Antonia will beat you to it.’ She laughed and drank from her glass . She wore a hat .
Idiom: up a tree (used idiomatically: yes)
If there is free space it is inserted at the correct node . Otherwise , the node is split into two nodes containing the lowest and highest values respectively . There may now be a place , but if not , this process can be repeated up the tree until a place is found for the new value . In this way , the correct sequencing is maintained . Thus there is no repeat of the search through overflow areas and/or frequent reorganisation that might be necessary to support index sequential processing .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
For example , we can choose how much to collect via a general income ~ tax , a payroll tax , a consumption tax ( such as a sales or value - added tax ) , and ~ so ~ on . We can also choose how much revenue to raise today , rather than in the future ( by varying the fiscal deficit ) . A general principle for an efficient tax system is to collect a given amount of revenue ( corresponding in the long run to the government ’s spending ) in a way that causes as little distortion as possible to the overall economy .
Idiom: to say the least (used idiomatically: yes)
I support my hon . Friends the Members for Wakefield ( Mr. Hinchliffe ) and for Halifax ( Mrs. Mahon ) in their general comments on the broad area of policy on residential and community care . Many people who care or who are cared for find it difficult to understand why they can not get the resources for that care when such vast amounts go towards people who are in residential care . Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . They also saw it as an opportunity to get the packages of care that they sought implemented as early as possible . My hon . Friend the Member for Halifax made the point that the rundown of long - stay care for the elderly in our health service and the move towards the elderly having the opportunity to go only into private nursing care is to be deprecated .
Idiom: at loggerheads (used idiomatically: yes)
The governing Bonn coalition is at loggerheads about the so - called 590-marks - jobs .
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: yes)
No . Do you want to have a go ? Well I 'll just do a little trick . If you 'd like to get into , if you move over that way . Now if you 'd like to get into the print menu again .
Idiom: hold someone's hand (used idiomatically: no)
Ruth looked , and saw Adam had at last reacted to something ; he was crouched low in his corner , eyes set on Jake . The two faces , so alike , gazed at each other . Jake stepped towards Adam , and held out his hands . ' Adam , lad , come now , and bring Undry . ' Adam just stared , fiercely .
Idiom: out of order (used idiomatically: yes)
I apo What did you say ? Did you say fuck ? Oh , Osmond , come on , give me the tape do n't be out of order . Shut the fuck , woman ! No !
Idiom: at a snail's pace (used idiomatically: yes)
That choice , of course , is not Slovenia 's alone and is , anyway , now hostage to other concerns . Ten years ago , after the Berlin wall fell and Germany was reunited , Europe 's democracies said that they wanted to repair the historic injustice of Europe 's division , when the countries of East / Central Europe became a type of war booty for the Soviet ~ Union . Today , as almost anyone east of the old Iron ~ Curtain will tell you , however , enlargement is moving ahead at a snail 's pace . Candidate countries must harmonize their political and economic systems with the so - called acquis communautaire ; current EU members want to ensure their ability to absorb enlargement by revising the EU 's structures . It is often heard that the current number of members already makes the EU 's work difficult .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: no)
where 's me structure gone , that 's not me structure . Yeah I think it 's erm Martin are n't I and he was going to throw you . All over the place . Yeah . I should n't worry .
Idiom: do the honours (used idiomatically: no)
In August , however , he wrote to the Goldsmiths : " Gentlemen . " When you did me the honour of appointing me to the Mastership of Stockport School I was led to suppose that the Income , inclusive of Ten Pounds paid by your Worshipful Company , amounted to nearly Three Hundred Pounds per annum , and from an Enquiry , however , during my Residence here , I have had the Mortification to find that the whole Salary was not more than £ 25 10 10½d , so that it was impossible for me to remain in the Situation without a Prospect of Church Preferment in the Neighbourhood , which I have no reason to hope for . I must beg therefore to give up the appointment and request you to accept my Resignation . Yet I can not relinquish the Situation without expressing my Obligation for your appointment though the Emolument fell short of what I was taught to expect .
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
Buyer said although space considerations make this difficult , it is being looked at . MARILYN MORGAN , section manager , in - store training , East Filton : ' We sell batteries but not watch batteries — they do n't take up much space . ' Apparently , watch batteries are just too small to be practical on our shelves . ' Could we sell boxes with flip lids for customers to put their recyclable rubbish in ? ' Such containers are available but we are told we do n't stock them because of lack of space .
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
Surely they could n't just let her go at the end of the three years ? ( Robyn goes into her long narrow living - room , formed by knocking down the dividing wall between the front and back parlours of the little house , which also serves as her study . There are books and periodicals everywhere — on shelves , on tables , on the floor — posters and reproductions of modern paintings on the walls , parched - looking potted plants in the fireplace , a BBC micro and monitor on the desk , and beside it sheaves of dot - matrix typescript of early chapters of Domestic Angels and Unfortunate Females in various drafts . Robyn picks her way across the floor , putting her shapely boots down carefully in the spaces between books , back numbers of Critical Inquiry and Women 's Review , LP albums by Bach , Philip Glass and Phil Collins ( her musical tastes are eclectic ) and the occasional wineglass or coffee cup , to the desk . She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag , and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day : well - thumbed , much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley , Mary Barton , North and South , Sybil , Alton Locke , Felix Holt , Hard Times ; her lecture notes — a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different - coloured inks , beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible ; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation .