Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
Despite an extrajudicial bargain that , if Galileo confessed his error , he would be treated leniently , the final censorship was a sentence of life imprisonment . Although this was commuted to house arrest , Galileo remained embittered in the belief that the other side of the bargain had not been kept . What Federico Cesi once wrote of the members of his Lincean Academy applied to Galileo with a vengeance : ‘ All we claim in common is freedom to philosophize in physical matters.’ There can be no denying this was an issue . It is doubtful whether it was ever such an issue for Wilkins .
Idiom: no strings attached (used idiomatically: yes)
Others may have had a succession of live - in boy or girl friends , lasting as long as it suited them both . Others may have maintained a long - term extra - marital affair . This kind of no - strings - attached use of sex seems to combine the best of both worlds , leaving a woman free to pursue her career and a man unshackled by the commitments of a heavy mortgage and all the other responsibilities that go with a family . But at midlife there are certain realities to be faced . Many may have discovered that the trouble - free lifestyle they had planned has turned out to be a good bit less well - regulated and tidy than they had expected or intended it to be .
Idiom: get a life (used idiomatically: yes)
Every word that comes out of his mouth is ‘ happening’ or ‘ intense’and his favourite ‘ Hey man , this is rock and roll’ . ( Dave Fanning interview 8 Oct ‘ 91 ) . I 've just one more thing to say — Simon , get a life and some new cliches ! ! SOUNDS BETTER ON PAPER As an avid reader of Hot Press and several other music mags , I recently decided that I was spending too much time reading about music and not enough time listening to the stuff .
Idiom: by dint of (used idiomatically: yes)
The crime is to disclose an official secret , probably even if extracted from the accused at the point of a pistol . But the major plank of the defence was provided by the remarkable lady journalist Suzanne Cronjé . By dint of careful and meticulous research she was able to provide the defence with evidence that every significant statement published in the Sunday Telegraph had been published somewhere already in a newspaper , a magazine or a book . In short , if one had assembled a number of publications and collated them , one would have had everything that the prosecution claimed was a state secret . In his summing - up , Mr Justice Caulfield could not have evinced a more robust hostility to the Official Secrets Act , sharing a widely held belief that it was long out of date and an intolerable interference with freedom of speech , and that it provided a justification for prosecutions ranging from the serious to the grotesquely ridiculous .
Idiom: watering hole (used idiomatically: yes)
One of the clan groups was given the responsibility for securing the delivery of the food to the warehouses , but the internal divisions and the lorry drivers ' loyalties mean that some food is always stolen , or lost to corruption . There is no law against theft or murder in Kismayo and no - one with the ability to enforce it , if it existed , anyway . Out in the bush the nomadic people still drive their camels and cattle over huge tracts of land , but the herds have been decimated , and along with the drought , some watering holes are now out - of - bounds as clan allegiances shift and change . Some tracks are littered with hundreds of carcasses signifying an immense extension of the famine if the remaining livestock continues to die at this rate . For now the nomads are surviving , but time most be short for them .
Idiom: dead wood (used idiomatically: yes)
Contrary to popular belief , recent studies reveal that wood ( especially firewood in the shape of logs rather than small twigs and branches ) has become so scarce that in many villages only the rich can afford to buy it . The bulk of firewood burned today is in twigs and branches . The poor rarely fell trees : they mainly lop off small branches , twigs , roots and dead wood . Threat of market forces In Pura , a village in Kamataka , Professor Amulva Reddy and his colleagues from the Indian Institute of Science found that 96 per cent of the wood that poor families burned was in the form of twigs .
Idiom: keep your head (used idiomatically: no)
Do n't mumble . If you have an audience of about a hundred people at least one will have hearing problems , difficulty understanding English , or difficulty understanding your accent . That is another reason for keeping your head up , so that such people can see your lips moving as well as hearing what you are saying . If they have to turn to their neighbour and ask for a repetition of what you just said , the resulting muttering will also prevent other members of the audience from hearing what you say next . If you know in advance that some people are hard of hearing you can seat them accordingly .
Idiom: blow hot and cold (used idiomatically: yes)
We applaud her stance . But only a full and detailed commitment from Darlington Health Authority will put people 's minds at rest . IN our many dealings with the police we have found that they can blow hot and cold . Sometimes they are keen to have media help in solving a crime , other times they are more reluctant . Now there appears to be a third tactic selectivity .
Idiom: hit the jackpot (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Musicals are jolly . You know when you sit down in your seat the performance is going to be uplifting and you will leave the theatre humming a cheerful tune.’ That was certainly the philosophy during the times of economic crisis in the early Eighties when the original run of Barnum played to packed houses , and when the National Theatre hit the jackpot with its first musical , Guys And Dolls . Psychologist Dr Glen Wilson , author of The Psychology Of Performing Arts , believes an evening of song and dance can actually change people for the better . ‘ Musicals give a direct emotional lift,’ he says .
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm . Mm . Erm but the more general training er sort of across the board that came up for staff in general was certain things that are , are bound to happen for example on course training will happen . Update on H E C G software , negotiation skills , train the trainers , group work , resources , presentation skills , interviewing skills , m marketing our guidance , adult update for E Os , the with the unemployed , employer work , personnel skills , recruitment and interviewing skills , employer legislation update , summaries of guidance , careers guidance agreements , management training , business financial management , supervisory skills , supervision of probationers , appraisal interviewing skills , careers education and guidance for careers officers in equal opportunities . I asked Liz specifically to put on the list this one that I try trying to do with E Os , the group work one
Idiom: think twice (used idiomatically: yes)
But this hardly seems sufficient , as an armoured defence , to deter any but the most casual of killers . Perhaps , as the attacker 's jaws open wide to grab the small , furry shape , the potto acts like a jerking hedgehog and thrusts the back of its neck at the biting mouth . Possibly the shock of feeling hard spikes in what appeared to be a soft , yielding morsel of food would be enough to make some predators think twice , but this is not particularly convincing . If the spikes were sharp , like the dorsal fins of many fish , the strategy would be easy to understand , but their shortness and bluntness mean that , for the moment , the potto remains another puzzle . Sharper spines , including the most fiendish known .
Idiom: on the ropes (used idiomatically: yes)
True , there was a mixed Italian and German team climbing not far away , heading for the Traverse of the Gods ; he could see them but for some reason they could n't see him . He tried to shout for help , but was too weak to raise even the feeblest of cries . He could see that Longhi , the lowest on the rope , was in a bad way ; his hands kept slipping . It was no surprise to the Russian when an anguished cry rang out : ‘ Falling ! Hold me!’
Idiom: as a rule (used idiomatically: yes)
As a rule , he arrives at the office at about nine - thirty in the morning .
Idiom: by the same token (used idiomatically: yes)
The banks are benign , stable shareholders . Most German manufacturers have their ' house bank ' , often a major shareholder and locked into an enduring relationship . By the same token , big manufacturers are often shareholders in their chosen bank . The drawbacks of this relationship are its stolid dullness and its tendency to focus power in a small circle of people . The overriding benefit , however , is its readiness to take the long view .
Idiom: alive and kicking (used idiomatically: yes)
He had been muttering vows of romantic love , rather sullen . He slipped into Bulgarian and became not absurd . Other people , alive and kicking . Other people to blot out a face . I went to sleep near him , on the floor .
Idiom: in broad daylight (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Why , are n't you ready yet ? You all seemed to be going over pretty smoothly.’ ‘ Look here : that was in broad daylight over a single strand of wire , not under fire from any machine guns , and with no patrolling goon with a gun to meet us on the other side . Quite apart from that , and even if the lights are fused properly , it will take double the time on the night itself . In the block we start running from just in front of the ladder , but on the night we 've first of all got to run from the block to the wire , which is twenty yards away in the nearest place and then put the ladder up .
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: no)
‘ I just want to get this season over and start from fresh again,’ added the ring - rusty world No 55 , also forced to play in glasses for the first time . ‘ Considering everything , I was quite pleased with my form , but I was n't sharp enough to take my chances.’ Birch has seen contemporaries Ken Doherty and James Wattana come of age this season and now he wants a slice of their action . He has sat and matched the former world amateur champions shoot up the rankings and said : ‘ I 'm glad to see them doing so well but it 's annoying when you know you are as good as them but are not able to do anything about it . ‘ There appears to have been a connection between my thyroid gland condition and eye trouble.’
Idiom: off and on (used idiomatically: no)
You do n't , for yourself , do you ? And I 'm out a lot , I tend to just slurp down a cup of Slimma - soup , stick a wee dollop of quiche in the microwave or something while I 'm waiting for my Carmens to heat up . Och , just round to my Mother 's , basically , just to get out the house — I 've never been one just to sit in listening to the Central Heating switching itself off and on . But see Derek he 's that jealous ! Honestly , always was , ver - near Divorce Proceedings every time I went out with emdy for a Campari after the Country Dancing …
Idiom: make a clean break (used idiomatically: yes)
Actually we did press him a bit and he gave the usual reasons . He was getting stale , wanted a new sphere of activity , was anxious to get away from London . Gossip has it that his wife had recently left him and he wanted to make a clean break . That was probably the reason . Thank God he did n't use that blasted word " challenge " .
Idiom: once and for all (used idiomatically: yes)
While this complex of overcrowding and decay colours the lives of all who live in St Ann 's , it has a special significance for those who are in poverty as well . Everyone finds necessary household maintenance and repairs an unwelcome financial burden , but for the poorer such expenses may be quite nightmarish . Indeed , here one can detect a good example of how rich one has to be to be poor : precisely because a poor family can not afford expensive but once - and - for - all repairs ( assuming such repairs to be feasible ) , household maintenance must either be neglected , or undertaken in a cheap but piecemeal fashion , where any improvement is partial and temporary in its effect . In the long run , of course , not only is this inefficient , but it costs more than the single , substantial investment . To neglect maintenance , however , is only to shift the burden from one part of the household budget to another .
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ How ? You 're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again ? You know how pissed off Kolchinsky was when he got the bill the last time you did that.’ ‘ No , I 've got a more subtle approach in mind . The damsel in distress.’
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
The book opens with an explanation of why some drugs are banned , details of testing procedures for competitors , what happens if a test fails and how drugs are misused . ' Once the final decision has been reached and notified to the individual concerned , the result and action should be published by the governing body to its membership . ' Such deterrent action seems obvious but there has been an across - the - board reluctance by BCU committees over the years for the membership to have been informed of punishments handed out for any misdemeanours . One limitation of the book is that it related to UK names only . If the competitor falls ill while abroad the book does not help .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: no)
Their agility gives them the edge , not so much in dispossessing an attacker but in evading attempts to win back the ball and in creating time and space for passing and regenerating their own offence . It is a technique quite remarkably absent from the English game and has not yet been conquered even by Des Walker , whose introduction to Italy has been faltering . Walker relies on his speed to the ball and the change of the back-pass law has exposed his weakness in releasing it constructively . Of course , learning to pirouette can be difficult in an English winter on waterlogged pitches where nimbleness seems only to be required by strikers slipping sliding tackles . But this is the area where English football lags behind the Continent .
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: yes)
The Yamaguchi - gumi claims a membership of 23,000 gangsters , or " yakuza " as they are called , who engage in businesses , both legal and illegal , including drug - trafficking , gun - smuggling , prostitution , extortion and real - estate swindles .
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
There was a laugh . ‘ Besides , he 's wanting to take an army to England , to overthrow Henry Tudor and set the Duke of York on his rightful throne . So who 's the King 's new Lieutenant in the Isles , with commission to uphold the King 's justice and keep the peace ? And take for his reward the lands of the folk he decides have broken the law ? Archie Campbell , the bold man .
Idiom: turn heads (used idiomatically: yes)
The room was in an uproar , the children huddled together and all screaming . The big nun 's arms were flailing while the other two attempted to hold her . It was Sister Aloysius who turned her head and cried to one of the bigger girls , ' Go and fetch Reverend Mother ! Take the children . Take them with you .
Idiom: pick up the pieces (used idiomatically: yes)
Hardly a week passes in which the Defence Campaign does not monitor incidents of harassment or malpractice by officers from Tottenham . If the police hope to gain the trust of the people of Broadwater Farm , they must begin by showing good faith towards those that the residents have chosen to represent themselves — the local council and the community organisations here . It is we , after all , who have to pick up the pieces and begin again the struggle to live our lives with dignity , and in freedom from arbitrary and authoritarian policing . Leading Article : America 's Panamanian legacy From Mr MILLARD SCOTT and Mr SHAUN WATERMAN
Idiom: make the cut (used idiomatically: yes)
It is very easy to look at diagrams and read how it is done , but quite another matter when you have to get down to soil level with thousands to do and a foreman standing over you ! A proper budding knife will be required — a penknife is no good at all— which is like a planting trowel in that both ends are used and the handle is not just for holding in the hand . The knife blade makes the cut , but the budding knife handle has a thin wedge - shaped end that is used , on turning the knife round , to open the cut . Select a strong healthy stem that has borne a good bloom , or is still carrying one that has gone over the top , and look at the stem lower down — to see if you can find nice plump axillary buds or eyes in the leaf axils — these are latent growth buds , and they are going to become your new roses ! You can either cut this stem away , as you would at pruning or after flowering , or , if you are only budding one or two , take a bud and leave the stem standing .
Idiom: under the microscope (used idiomatically: yes)
These viruses have received most attention because their high pathogenicity , narrow host range , and complete safety to vertebrates and plants , make them ideal candidates for biological pest control agents . Most baculoviruses have one feature that is unique to insect viruses — they produce occlusion bodies in which the virions are embedded . Occlusion bodies ( OBs ) can be from a few hundred nanometres to several micrometres across and these viruses can therefore easily be seen under the light microscope , which greatly aids diagnosis . This feature allows the virus to persist in the environment even though its host , the insect larva , may be present for only a few weeks during the year . The coding moth ( Cydia pomonella ) granulosis virus is illustrated in Fig . 2 .
Idiom: rewrite history (used idiomatically: yes)
Fantasias on Operas by bellini NICOLOSI ( piano ) Another of Marco Polo 's largely successful attempts to rewrite history . For the general view of music - making in the Nineteenth Century is inaccurate : time has winnowed away the reputations of many of the figures best known at the time , and completely obscured the smaller fry that occupied nine - tenths of the publishers ' catalogues of those days . One of the reputations that has taken a bit of a bashing is Sigismond Thalberg 's .
Idiom: head south (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Keep activating every thirty seconds until we get lock - on,’ said Brown . ‘ Chuck , start to sweep round Kensington.’ Moxon took Cromwell Road , then headed south down Gloucester Road towards Old Brompton Road . The antenna got a lock . ‘ He 's behind us , heading north,’ said Moxon 's colleague .
Idiom: turn a blind eye (used idiomatically: yes)
Three decades of success in China , and a decade in which India supposedly overcame the old , slow , “ Hindu rate of growth , ” are ending with both economies slowing precipitously . And both are slowing for the same reason : stalled reform , which is a direct result of governments being so satisfied with today ’s conditions that they fail to address tomorrow ’s rising dangers . China ’s government continues to turn a blind eye toward banks that lend to the politically well connected , or that tolerate companies – mostly state - owned – with poor financial discipline . Indeed , total public- and private - sector debt in China is now around 200 % of GDP , up by more than one - third in five years . Reckless lending is undermining efficient allocation of capital and preventing China from drawing a line under the investment- and export - led growth model of the past three decades and basing future growth more on domestic consumption .
Idiom: kiss of life (used idiomatically: no)
When you 're lips tighten with growing he will plump them out ; when you 're eyes go hard and adult he will keep them dewy ; when you 're hair turns grey he will paint it black ; he will wipe off rouge and years ; push your teeth back in ; erase your wrinkles . Sixty years from now you will bless him . He dead , and you dying , he gave you the kiss of life.’ Thank you very much . Can you remember how you chose that subject ?
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
The first two landing stages touched by the excursion ship after leaving Brunnen and heading south into the Urner See are part of the story . After rounding the imposing sheer cliff face of Seelisberg , it is rather surprising when the boat draws inshore to moor at a little pier with no sign of village or community in sight . The landing place is for a meadow lying on a shelf or terrace beneath the cliffs : the Rutli meadow where representatives of the three founding cantons met in 1307 to take a solemn oath confirming their Everlasting League to defend the liberties their valleys had inherited against tyrants . The next landing stage , this one at a tree - covered spur projecting from the opposite shore of the lake , bears the sign " Tellsplatte " ; nearby is a memorial chapel to the folk hero who is reputed to have leapt ashore at this spot escaping from an Austrian - manned boat that was carrying him to prison . The Tellsplatte lies at the base of the Axenberg mount , part of the precipitous east face of the Urner See .
Idiom: turn a blind eye (used idiomatically: yes)
A Brigade statement said : ‘ The decision to disband has been taken by the leadership and will prevent any members reforming under any other name.’ The IRA has said it is determined to stamp out drug dealing . It has accused the RUC of ‘ turning a blind eye’ to the problem in Nationalist areas . The IPLO is an off - shoot of the Irish National Liberation Army . The IRA regards both as no more than gangster bands .
Idiom: shuffle off this mortal coil (used idiomatically: yes)
Ay , there 's the rub . For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause . Richard Burbage was right , of course .
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: yes)
' Have you never seen a UFO ? ' I shake my head and trawl my spoon through the last of my soup . THE SOUNDBITE VERSION of the Deee - Lite story you probably know : a Russian émigré ( Super DJ Dmitry ! ) , working as a go - go dancer in New York clubs , is introduced to a bald New York textile designer ( Lady Miss Kier Kirby ! ) by the fountain in Washington Square on a sunny day in 1982 . They live together and , a few years later , start making music together . A Korean Japanese musician ( Jungle DJ Towa Towa ! ) sees them perform , gives them a tape of his music and is invited to join .
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: no)
I nodded , told Emil I 'd be back , and followed Zak down the Great Hall and round a comer or two and came to a buzzing gathering of people in an area like an airport departure lounge . An enormous banner across a latticed screen left no one in any doubt . Stretching for a good twelve feet it read in red on white THE GREAT TRANSCONTINENTAL MYSTERY RACE TRAIN , and in blue letters a good deal smaller underneath , THE ONTARIO JOCKEY CLUB , MERRY & CO AND VIA RAIL PRESENT A CELEBRATION OF CANADIAN RACING . The forty or so passengers already gathered in happy anticipation wore name badges and carnations and held glasses of orange juice convivially . ' There was supposed to be champagne in the orange juice , ' Zak said dryly .
Idiom: raise hell (used idiomatically: yes)
Hellraisers At some point during the fifties the press coined a phrase , not entirely new but then fashionable , for any actor who emulated the lifestyle of Errol Flynn , if only in part . All they had to do was live life through an alcoholic haze and generally raise hell — hence the term ‘ Hellraiser’ . One man had it down to a fine art — Lee Marvin . For him raising hell meant having a wonderful time .