Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: fast and furious (used idiomatically: yes)
He also opened a gold deposit account and at one stage paid in a lot of money . The account was then allowed to lie dormant while Yousefi collected the cheque books sent out at regular intervals . Then in June he began to write cheques at a ‘ fast and furious pace’ . Yousefi was caught when he tried to cash a cheque at a London bank but the name of Garawand was on a defaulters list . Police found credit cards in both the name of Garawand and Yousefi they also took the keys to a white Ford Transit van , which they discovered in a car park .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: yes)
A woman who was sacked because she was pregnant has won almost seven thousand pounds compensation . Mrs Maria Ashmore , from Chalgrove in Oxfordshire told an industrial tribunal that she lost her job as a credit controller with Buckinghamshire - based Wellcom Business Communications , after she announced she was having a baby . The company had claimed that Mrs Ashgrove was replaced because of serious errors in her work . A new scheme to cut the suicide rate among farm workers has been launched by the Samaritans . Every week , up to four farmers kill themselves , and the numbers have increased as the recession in agriculture deepens .
Idiom: out and about (used idiomatically: yes)
it 's not Strike It Lucky , I ca n't stand that it 's called Barrymore yeah , that 's good , he gets people out the audience and he goes out and about and sort of meets people with talent and gets them to do singing and that with people with bad throats no , he 's good it was funny there was some can can dancers on at the end and there were sort of ladies in their sixties and he joined them
Idiom: pleased as punch (used idiomatically: yes)
Life had been - kind to her and there were few lines on her face , except in the corners of her eyes and around her swanlike neck just beneath the chin . She looked serious though as she confided in her daughter : ‘ I dunno , Carrie . I was pleased as punch when yer farvver came ' ome an ' told me Joe Maitland ' ad offered ' i m that job . Now I 'm not so sure . It ai n't what ' e 's bin used to , but then nor was that watchman 's job wiv the council .
Idiom: mend fences (used idiomatically: yes)
Everybody has their own style and tone , and we do n't all have to be clones one and another . She has her own tone and style and I 've seen it very effective . Do you feel you will have to mend fences now ? Well , there will be a certain amount of explanation that will have to be done , because Geoffrey Howe is a well known , well liked figure among many people that I deal with er but now , and for some time now , for a year now , it 's I who have been dealing with them and I hope I 've inherited some of the work and some of the trust which he helped to create . Do you think now there will have to be a lot of morale building within the party ?
Idiom: dig deep (used idiomatically: no)
This leaves their challengers with the uphill task of performing early to a half empty venue , or , in the case of SENSER , consigned to the early morning graveyard shift , by which time most of the audience has ( literally ) crashed out . Still , WONKY ALICE bravely kick off with suitably weird and psychedelic poppy guitars , playing the ominous ‘ Caterpillars’ with the desperation of dying men to a barren Academy . SPITFIRE — last minute replacements for the ironically ailing Dr Phibes — dig deep as well , living up to their name by frazzling the dreadheads with some painfully raw guitar trash . In a scene straight out of This Is Spinal Tap , wigwams stand onstage draped in white gauze . It 's hard to work out what is going on as strobes explode and the shadowy , interchangeable members of HAWKWIND ( for it is they ) hide inside their ethereal pyramids .
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
She asked Mrs Phipps , as delicately as she could . ' Why else would there be so many fal - lals and thingamajigs on those cakes ? ' the widow said , wearily . ' They were all out to catch Henry 's eye . The fancier something looked , the better he thought it tasted . Cherries , chocolates , walnuts , and anything in silver paper — Henry always wanted the best of anything and everything .
Idiom: pull out all the stops (used idiomatically: yes)
But as specialisation increases , such practices are dying out and the production chief who gives all his business to one or two companies is viewed with frank suspicion . Good working relationships with suppliers are , however , very important . A production person never knows when he will be asking a supplier to pull out all the stops and finish a job in a matter of hours . Good relations with creative people are also essential , for you may have to advise the art director that the transparency he has chosen wo n't reproduce too well . You will certainly have to show him and his writer every stage of the job so that they have the opportunity to make colour corrections and spot spelling mistakes .
Idiom: thick and fast (used idiomatically: yes)
But they made him realize that he was getting across what he wanted to get across , and not a holy - sounding fog of words . If the people of Lincolnshire were thought by their bishop not to understand Ramsey in a pulpit , this was not the opinion outside the diocese . The invitations came thick and fast . He was bad at saying no . He could not lecture for the Archbishop of Canterbury because he was already committed to lecture for the Archbishop of York .
Idiom: catch fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Voice over This tip is in a wooded valley classed as being of outstanding natural beauty . The rubbish that 's been legally dumped here over the years has now caught fire . It 's been smouldering deep below the tip for at least six weeks . There 's a school nearby and environmentalists are worried about the possible effects of fumes given off from the burning rubbish .
Idiom: go places (used idiomatically: no)
One rather novel feature , fitted by David Fenton just after the aircraft came onto the UK register , is a Rockwell wing - leveller system which is linked to the turn & slip and the VOR . By engaging the system the Bölkow can be relied upon to tract and accurately overfly any VOR , while in non - VOR mode the aircraft can , if wished , be turned onto a compass heading using a dedicated knob on the T & S in the manner of a full - blown airliner . Since the Bölkow is designed to go places — Nigel had returned from Cannes only a few days before my flight — this is a most useful addition allowing the relaxed study of maps , approach plates etc , without the constant monitoring of the aeroplane . It probably makes for more relaxed passengers , too . In flight the aeroplane is quiet and the cabin doors seal well .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: no)
The move is good both for him and Coventry because he 's joining a manager who believes in him and understands the mechanics of his game . Bobby Gould was the same sort of striker . He had no great ability , apart from sticking the ball in the back of the net , either . Finished Quinn has joined a boss who wants him and likes him , and if that 's not there the player will never produce the goods .
Idiom: shake a leg (used idiomatically: yes)
I do n't know why she wore it ; my memory was n't that bad . Maybe hers was . ‘ Come on , shake a leg,’ I said . ‘ That 's not my leg,’ she said without opening her eyes . ‘ Really ?
Idiom: take to the hills (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We urge people not to keep large sums of money in their houses . The safest place for any significant amount has to be the bank.’ WHEN beat bobby Bill Clapperton needs to escape the pressures of urban policing he takes to the hills . And the Cleveland police constable hopes others will follow in his footsteps and ease the pressures on one of Britain 's most famous walks . Bill has devised a coast to coast walk to rival the hike made famous by Lakeland legend Alfred Wainwright .
Idiom: in the fast lane (used idiomatically: yes)
PRACTICAL HAIRCARE MIAMI STYLE STYLING TRICKS FROM CLAIROL FOR LIFE IN THE FAST LANE Miami , Florida is THE place for girls who like to live life to the full . Clairol decided to put their new gas powered styler to the test on a jet - setting local .
Idiom: out of sight (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr Marshall told them you could forecast the weather with pine cones . After lunch they all trooped back down to the beach with plastic bags and jars for specimens , and Carolyn lagged behind . Following the tidy path through the pines , past a picnic site with slaked wooden tables and large litter bins , she was soon out of sight of any other people . There was the sound of the sea , at a distance , like regular quiet breathing . There was the secretive rustling of the wind in the tops of the pines .
Idiom: song and dance (used idiomatically: yes)
But the idea that in many of his works Shakespeare shows something exquisite or innocent threatened or crushed is not new : it is to be found in the writings of Hereward Price ( 1947 ) and in an ordinary introduction to Venus and Adonis . It had even occurred to me . This theme has a curious persistence , but one does not need a song and dance about it . Mr Hughes should be judged not on this , then , but on the detail that his work throws up . He believes Venus and Adonis , with its attendant sonnets , makes Shakespeare the only writer to have Adonis refuse the advances of the goddess .
Idiom: run a mile (used idiomatically: yes)
This means that if you are a male diabetic smoker with a high cholesterol level , your blood tends to churn out atheroma like a Jersey cow makes cream . Let 's hope you do n't also suffer from high blood pressure ( which increases both the rate of atheroma build - up and the heart 's workload ) or obesity ( which also increases cardiac workload ) . The biggest risk factor of all is an inherited predisposition , which is why life insurance salesmen run a mile when they hear that your dad died of a coronary at 35 . Compared with these major risk factors , the contribution of life stress and the much - ridiculed ‘ coronary - prone’ or Type A personality ( aggressive , ambitious , restless and excessively concerned with time and deadlines ) to a person 's coronary risk profile is small . Very high alcohol intake increases your coronary risk , but a small amount — say a glass of wine — may protect , as may hard water ( goodness knows how ) and sunshine .
Idiom: by the same token (used idiomatically: yes)
Yet in the afternoon the council put its weight behind a scheme that would selectively subsidise and increase the earning capacity of a small group who are by no means the worst paid members of society , and this largely at the expense of the previously agreed underfunded NHS and the taxpayer . The rather weak reason given was the waste of the resources used in training these people . By the same token we should build more fighter aircraft so that expensively trained officers may be ' enabled to get back to work . ' Pilots cost vastly more to train than doctors , after all , and some may say there is an increasing demand for them . The list of other ' expensively trained ' groups is practically endless .
Idiom: under the table (used idiomatically: yes)
' Did she marry out there ? ' Leni did n't answer , did n't look at Agnes , just sat with her hands held primly in her lap . The big cat climbed stiffly down off the desk and squatted on a box of cat - sand under a corner table , staring straight ahead with a sublime conviction that it was invisible . Agnes said : ' She must have got some new identity . Her British certificate has n't been renewed for twenty years . '
Idiom: in broad daylight (used idiomatically: yes)
The police say they 've increased patrols in the St Peters area of Cheltenham where Mr Martyn lives . He says that residents must have seen what happened . It was in broad daylight . He hopes someone will come foreward with information . Until Mr Martyn moves , he must now keep his invalid car safely locked up inside his flat .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: no)
And I felt like I remember sometimes feeling as a child when I was doing something a bit difficult , a bit daring . I felt ‘ Ooh , what an adventure!’ Silly , was n't it , when all I was doing was going down the road to the Post Office ? But it was a little achievement , going out in the rain that day when there seemed nothing on earth to want to get better for , and feeling better all of a sudden . And I had a funny thought — I suppose part of the excitement of getting out again after so long , all that oxygen — ; here , this is silly , you 'll laugh at this .
Idiom: back to square one (used idiomatically: no)
This takes a copy of vital boot sector and hard disk partition information during installation , and checks both disk areas during boot - up to ensure they have n't changed . Watch out if you run SuperStor or Stacker on your machine , though — unless BOOTSAFE is pointed at the ‘ real’ hard disk — drive D — you 'll trigger a false error message . Finally , there 's an option to create a ‘ rescue’ disk ; a bootable floppy containing vital hard disk info , enabling you to go back to square one if the worst comes to the worst . The checksummer part of CPAV is relatively slow and creates a file in each directory , called CHKLIST.CPS , which contains a checksum of all the files in that directory . The multiplicity of CPS files produced is , I guess , an attempt to deter viral attack .
Idiom: green with envy (used idiomatically: yes)
Indeed Corris sketches out diagrams that show these subsystems as separate , giving the possibility that third parties will be able to slot their offerings in there somewhere . The longing and impatience to be privatised , so as to be able to invest freely to keep up in a rapidly evolving public telecommunications world , is evident in every pronouncement from Deutsche Bundespost Telecom . The latest outpouring of new ideas for the shape of its services in the latter part of the decade from its erstwhile state - owned sibling British Telecommunications Plc , described here by Chris Rose , must leave Telekom green with envy . British Telecom is now exploiting its freedom as a commercial company to the full , where Telekom has to hand over all its hard - earned profits to prop up a grossly overmanned and inefficient postal and post - bank service . At the moment , users perceive the BT operation as a monolithic network and services , but this is set to change under the new vision .
Idiom: go through the motions (used idiomatically: yes)
He turned round and walked towards the stage . The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . Mechanically going through the motions , repeating his words , hardly aware of the small Monday night audience , hardly aware of the new girl hesitantly feeding him Lesley - Jane 's lines , he was in an agony of apprehension throughout the performance . But he had to play his part through to the end . The end of the play , one curtain - call , and then , sod it , he 'd risk another slap on the wrist from the arch Mr. Ward .
Idiom: play it cool (used idiomatically: yes)
easy does it erm not talking to me for some reason . erm something like play it cool boy I do n't know what it is , it 's really crap though . something school boy Is Eleanor not talking to you ?
Idiom: give someone the creeps (used idiomatically: yes)
The elegant impressive residence fought to retain her dignity and slowly collapsed upon herself . There was a groan , a sign and then silence . The old houses give you the creeps do n't they Bill ? Yeah , did you hear that noise hey ? Makes you feel like a murderer sometimes this job do n't it ?
Idiom: word of mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
Form of the contract The law on this is very easy and is contained in section 4 : ‘ … a contract of sale may be made in writing ( either with or without seal ) , or by word of mouth , or partly in writing and partly by word of mouth , or may be implied from the conduct of the parties.’ In this respect contracts of sale of goods are different from contracts for the sale of land . Whereas there are no particular formalities for the former , a contract for the sale of land is unenforceable unless there is some signed , written proof of the contract 's existence , Law of Property Act 1925 , section 40 .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
There is a comprehensive system of navigation and approach assistance available for air traffic operating within control areas and in instrument flying conditions that enable pilots to comply with these regulations . It is necessary to both study and understand the facilities available , and to be familiar with the calculations and preparations involved so that once a pilot can maintain a performance in IFR conditions within the prescribed limits and under stress — he must also be in a position to make full use of the facilities available to comply with the traffic patterns and procedures required . Before studying the procedures described further on , it will be helpful to be familiar with a few facts and suggestions for making personal " rules of thumb " and simplified tables as aids to mental calculations . Heading groundspeed and timing calculations Estimation of drift But , for all practical purposes you can say that a wind angle of 60 ° produces maximum drift .
Idiom: take someone to task (used idiomatically: yes)
They will play five Tests . Overdoing the expressions of regret TELEVISION 'S merciless eye does footballers few favours and perhaps it is unfair to take them to task too readily for their occasional excesses . Maybe they have always gone on at opponents , teammates and referees , but their rantings are now shown in close - up and full colour . They might bear that in mind .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
This represented a modest rise of 2.9 per cent in total federal spending and was predicted to result in a cut of 1.5 per cent in real terms ( after adjustment for inflation ) . Budget Director Richard Darman stated that the budget was " reformist " in intention , its main thrust being to shift " mandatory " federal spending away from the middle class towards the poor . The budget 's prediction that the current economic recession would be short - lived , and that the economy would soon show signs of growth , was widely doubted especially in the light of the latest unemployment figures and economic indicators [ see below ] . According to the administration 's budget proposals , the budget deficit would reach a record $ 318,100 million in fiscal 1991 but drop to $ 280,900 million in fiscal 1992 , based on an estimated 5.7 per cent rise in revenues to $ 1,165,000 million . Darman stated that the size of the 1991 deficit reflected ( i ) an increase of $ 105,500 million in estimated outlays to help pay off debts resulting from the collapse of savings and loans institutions , or " thrifts " [ see pp . 36843 ; 37412 ] ; and ( ii ) a decline of $ 87,000 million in estimated receipts resulting from a weaker than expected economy .
Idiom: come to a head (used idiomatically: yes)
What is happening is that car - owning families are buying another . Alongside the Sierra or the BMW , the Peugeot 205 or the VW Golf . It all comes to a head at weekends and bank holidays . Leisure journeys usually follow routes that would be painful , or impossible , by rail . With branch lines axed , the only practical rail journeys begin or end in a city .
Idiom: on the money (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ When will you go?’ Warner 's voice was business - like , now , trying to mask the defeat . ‘ We 're agreed on the money?’ ‘ Yes.’ ‘ Today.’
Idiom: up to the hilt (used idiomatically: yes)
It was beginning to fail even then.’ Theodora was n't sure she followed him . ‘ The estate was mortgaged up to the hilt in the thirties when farming was n't paying . Things picked up in the forties , of course , during the war . But he was that stiff - necked the old Baron , and Mr Louis , the present Baron , he 's the same , they could n't make it pay even when times got better .
Idiom: chew the cud (used idiomatically: yes)
like painting the fall - pipes or mixing the lamp black . ( The theory was he was chewing the cud for his own son , Gideon , who was highly rated but failed goalie trials
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: no)
This is the whole things behind weight training , it 's not a thing I 've ever done it cos it I would find that boring , it 's er too mechanical for me . But erm the idea is you give a certain load , a reasonable load , to a muscle and it will cope with that then you increase the load and it increases the muscle power to deal with the increased load . This is how these men make themselves into all those freak things where muscles bulge all over the place , they look as if they 're about to , I 'm not quite sure , they always remind of erm those balloons , you know , that pop off beach balls , they look a bit like that . But that 's how they build their muscles you see , it 's all very scientific and they and they 're very dedicated and they know how they do it . No the , the principle of it is good , we could all do with a bit more muscle building than we have .
Idiom: buy time (used idiomatically: yes)
Talks continue between MTM and its banks , following its breach of covenants . MTM 's debt stands at £ 70 million . The appointment last week of company doctoring group Postern to work on an MTM recovery should help in buying time with the banks . Postern boss Trevor Swete was in Middlesbrough last week talking to executives . Last week , we inaccurately described David James , the company doctor at the helm of Eagle Trust , Davies & Newman and Lep Group , as a Postern director .
Idiom: early bird (used idiomatically: yes)
Fossil birds are distinctly rare , and to find a well - preserved and complete example is a palaeontological event . The evolution of flight led to generally light and fragile skeletons , and it is perhaps not surprising that avian fossils are so uncommon , and when found , so often fragmentary . The derivation of the birds from a reptilian ( possibly dinosaur ) ancestor is certain , and because the earliest fossil bird , Archaeopteryx , is Jurassic in age , it is usually assumed that the split from the reptiles occurred in the earlier part of the period . Cretaceous birds are generally scarce , and some of the ' toothed ' birds that are known , like the flightless , aquatic Hesperornis , seem to be difficult to relate to any of the living species . It is probable that like the mammals the roots of the great variety of living birds are to be found in the Cretaceous , but fossils , which could document this , are only now slowly coming to light .
Idiom: speak volumes (used idiomatically: yes)
There are some aspects of our personalities which may not come over in the brief span of an interview , but which those close to us know only too well . Family , friends or working colleagues see us more clearly than we realise . We may keep certain parts of ourselves well hidden from view , but our behaviour can speak volumes about attitudes , preferences and prejudices , some of which can be important when it comes to dealing with disputes and differences of opinion or possible action . Unfortunately , what may appear obvious to all but ourselves , even our best friends do n't tell us . Maybe it is feasible for you to find someone who knows you well enough to comment ( friend , family or colleague ) and to give you some personal insights .
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah , exactly . I mean , that must be a thousand pounds ' worth of air tickets . And they lost a fortune on their house , trying to sell it . And erm , It took him twenty five minutes on , on his computer ,