Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
' The top one . ' Apgood skimmed through Brigitte Schickert 's certificate , her husband 's name , parents ' names , place and date of birth , and the address of the Leistritz farmhouse , Dornhausen . ' I hope some of these names mean something to you ; they do n't ring any bells with me . ' ' That 's all right . I just wondered what else you could tell me . '
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: no)
He said he doubts whether Chancellor Kohl can muster the decisiveness and courage to do the right thing against all opposition .
Idiom: go downhill (used idiomatically: yes)
The world before 1910 . I often think of it . My grandfather saying that everything was going downhill , my grandmother talking of progress , but neither expecting it for that year or the next , they did n't dream of real change , not in their lifetime nor their children 's . ‘ One morning someone tipped the truth to Anna . The old story , the old truth , the facts .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
I listened to the BBC headlines the next morning , and they said , ‘ Yesterday parliament gave overwhelming support to the government handling of the Gulf crisis.’ I believe that the opposition should have insisted on having a vote on a motion in which the government could have asked for support , and we would have put down an amendment saying that we thought that sanctions should have been given longer . As it was I think we upset a lot of our own supporters , and others in the country , without any real gain in the long run . But we all made clear , including me , that once the fighting started , we 'd support our troops . Why do you think so few people in your kind of position have actually stuck their heads above the parapet and cried ‘ No’ ?
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: yes)
It has to be said that many of the BUF 's ‘ orators’ would not be hard to improve upon . There was , for example , their great parliamentary hope at Whitechapel , Teddy ‘ Kid’ Lewis , a professional boxer . He was almost illiterate and could make only one speech , which he had painstakingly learnt by heart . Unfortunately , his hecklers also learn it . Each time that he got up to speak at a meeting , they would chant the lines in unison with him — even correcting his lapses of memory — until the predicted riot broke out .
Idiom: go public (used idiomatically: yes)
A more critical appraisal becomes possible as partners step back to regard each other . The realities of what living with this other person might be like begin to be registered and weighed up . Although a measure of ambivalence is quite usual , it is at this point that a decision is made about going public . With the greater prevalence of cohabitation as a prelude to marriage , many couples feel they make their public commitment to each other when they set up house together and sign the joint mortgage form . They may think that they are realistically aware of what they are letting themselves in for and what they need to know about each other 's strengths and weaknesses .
Idiom: cross the Rubicon (used idiomatically: yes)
This was used as the basis for invitations , issued at the end of 1857 , to the nobility of every province to form committees which would draw up projects for the emancipation of their peasants . Once the commitment was public , and peasant expectations soared , it rapidly became clear that the government could not back - track without risking explosion from below . Though he showed no very clear signs that he realized it , the Tsar had crossed the Rubicon , carrying the nobility with him . Noble energy was directed into the debate over the precise terms , rather than the principle , of early Emancipation . The government 's overriding concern to ensure domestic stability ruled out the possibility of landless Emancipation .
Idiom: sick and tired (used idiomatically: yes)
An MP was this week accused of scaremongering when he warned that a European ban on tobacco advertising could bring job losses at a Darlington factory . Mr Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington , claimed the decision by the European Parliament to ban cigarette adverts could be ‘ extremely damaging’ for Rothman 's International , which employs 800 people in the town . But Mr Alan Milburn , Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for the town , said he was ‘ sick and tired of scare stories about a threat to jobs at the factory.’ Mr Milburn paid a three - hour visit to the McMullen Road factory on Thursday afternoon when he toured production lines and met management and workforce representatives . ‘ The factory seems currently to be booming and increasing its market share,’ he said .
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
The juggler wowed the crowd by keeping ten oranges up in the air .
Idiom: out of order (used idiomatically: no)
Obviously , success in some of those early films had their effect on Wil he promoted himself to a star on the strength of them . I do n't expect any of the players in Cwmni Theatr y Dreflan will suffer from any such illusions of greatness . Alaw Bennett Humphreys and her husband , Gareth , and Huw Alun Roberts take the leading roles in a Welsh adaptation of a Ray Cooney play , Allan o Drefn ( Out of Order ) . Gary Nicholas 's translation means Welsh speakers can see the play well before an English version is staged in September . Nic Parry produces it at Theatr Clwyd on Monday and Tuesday of next week .
Idiom: let bygones be bygones (used idiomatically: yes)
The potential for violence during Mr Mandela 's visit was illustrated when he cancelled a visit to a township outside Ladysmith yesterday after an ANC supporter in the township had been shot dead and another seriously wounded by unknown gunmen . In Pietermaritzburg Mr Mandela brought traffic to a stop when he went ‘ walk - about’ in the main street . Later , at Mooi River , north of Pietermaritzburg , he called on ANC supporters to ‘ let bygones be bygones and forget old grudges against Inkatha.’ His appeal for reconciliation was in marked contrast to the attitude of the Stalinist leader of the ANC in the Natal Midlands , Harry Gwala , who in interviews has said : ‘ We will kill Inkatha if they attack . We wo n't greet them with Bibles.’
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: yes)
and so on . The average national property value is calculated and assigned to the appropriate band , i.e. band D in this case . From this base , the tax bills for properties in both higher and lower bands are calculated . For example , the average property value in England in 1991 was deemed to be 80,000 , i.e. it is located in band D — between 68,000 and 88,000 ( column one ) . This means that this band ranges from between 85 % and 110 % of the average property value ( second column ) .
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: no)
‘ It was hard work but you used to have some enjoyment out of yourself . There 's no enjoyment now much , is there ! Wherever the pub is , whether it 's in the docks or the full of the town , that does n't make much difference . They used to sing the shanties on those big owd deep - water ships . We never used to .
Idiom: pack a punch (used idiomatically: yes)
But these are restrictions you have to live with on a budget machine . There are drum machines which allow more programming scope and greater flexibility — for instance Yamaha 's own RY30 and Roland 's R70 — but they 're more expensive and do n't have the RY10 's ' use anywhere ' portability , nor its basic simplicity . Sonically , this little machine packs a real punch , has a very commendable number and variety of sounds , and is a very modern - sounding drum box . Simon Trask & Eddie Allan RRP :
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
When the adventurers are able to enter , there is still a guardian to overcome — a suit of animated plate armour which attacks at once . It stands just beyond the doors . After the adventurers have overcome this , they can take stock of the shelves and tables . There are several usable magic items here ( and some the adventurers wo n't be able to use ) , but their form is always unorthodox and sometimes rather unpleasant . The room itself has several tables with linen and silk covers , cupboards , chairs and the like , and there is much general bric - a - brac in addition to the magic stored here .
Idiom: give up the ghost (used idiomatically: yes)
Oh ! It 's a matter of taste . But I think they 've more or less given up the ghost . See poor and all that . Terrible thing !
Idiom: ride roughshod over (used idiomatically: yes)
However that may be , Cnut 's considerable generosity to Canterbury implies that he did have good relations with Æthelnoth , and this possibly made him the more determined to control the selection of his successor . He evidently intended that this should be the royal priest Eadsige , who took over some of Æthelnoth 's duties in 1035 and succeeded him in 1038 . As he became a monk at Christ Church as a preliminary , it looks as though Cnut did not feel able to ride roughshod over the church of Canterbury . Other royal priests raised to the episcopate were Ælfwine , who became bishop of Winchester in 1032 , and Duduc , who received Wells a year later . These men must have been close to the king , and no doubt had considerable influence with him .
Idiom: cut and dried (used idiomatically: yes)
Covent Garden deals in it , as do many provincial wholesale markets . But nurseryman Peter Summers of Teme Valley Nursery at Tenbury reckons that the English variety is far superior . ' The French mistletoe ( exactly the same species ) is cut earlier and dries out more because of the distance it comes , ' he says . ' That is why the berries drop off sooner . ' The French , though , have retained far more of their apple orchards .
Idiom: odds and ends (used idiomatically: yes)
There was no - one there . It was a cheerless , comfortless room ; only tattered books on makeshift shelves and an old - fashioned record player suggested any kind of relaxation ; no radio , no television . There were no pictures on the walls but on the mantelpiece , amongst a random collection of odds and ends , there was a framed photograph of an elderly woman ; her hair was gathered into an old - fashioned bun on the top of her head ; she had a smooth , rather spoilt face and an expression of absolute serenity . The photograph was inscribed : ‘ To Alfred from mother , at 75’ . A single - bar electric fire stood in front of the empty grate and a wing - backed chair , threadbare and with broken springs , was drawn up in front of it .
Idiom: turn heads (used idiomatically: yes)
Everyone in the cinema , everyone except the five youths , jumps and screams . The box of liquorice torpedoes leaves the hand of the girl next to me . as if in a slow motion sequence from a Peckinpah film I see the torpedoes escape from the box , turn head over tail as they rise , reach their zenith , and begin falling again , towards the heads and shoulders of the youths in front . The sweets land . The youths jump up , shouting with terror and disgust and begin waving their arms about , flapping at the air , furiously brushing their hair and shirts .
Idiom: have a few (used idiomatically: yes)
AND THAT 's it . Regrets ? We had a few . We never really got to hang out with Ice Cube , as initial exchanges did not bode too well . ( rap it if you like ) .
Idiom: give something a miss (used idiomatically: yes)
Rather disappointingly there is not too much to be scared of in summer . It 's certainly a narrow aréte , but I found the tiny loose stones of Am Bodach 's unstable path far more disquieting than this ridge , with its well - worn , solid path snaking comfortingly across to the last top between us and our goal of Sgurr a ' Mhaim . However , winter would transform it into something perilous in the extreme , even with crampons and an axe , and I 'd give it a miss during that season unless you 're an experienced mountaineer . If anything , by this time I would have welcomed the security not of a rope , but of seeing Sgurr a Mhaim about a mile closer . It had been a long walk so far , and it was n't over .
Idiom: to the letter (used idiomatically: no)
She judged the first to be that of some official and wondered what such a one would be doing there at an hour now close to midnight . ‘ You have your orders,’ she heard the cultured voice say . ‘ Obey them to the letter and you will be well rewarded — any bungling or playing the fool and I doubt you 'll live to tell the tale!’ ’ ' Twill be as ye says , constable,’said the obsequious voice . ‘ All neat and tidy - like!’
Idiom: take a bath (used idiomatically: yes)
In this kind of hotel you will sleep on the floor , wear a kimono ( provided by the management ) instead of pyjamas and share a bath with strangers . You 'll also be given a new toothbrush every evening . Of course , if you 're more comfortable in a lounge suit or twin - set and pearls , prefer eggs and bacon for breakfast , insist on using the same boring toothbrush day and night , and like to take baths alone , then you can go to the Hilton . There 's one in London too . In the Japanese hotel your bed is a comfortable mattress on the floor .
Idiom: force someone's hand (used idiomatically: yes)
It is this which strengthens claims that Richard 's usurpation was a series of panic responses rather than a coherent scheme . But this is not the only explanation . It is possible that Richard 's letter to York did mark the beginning of a planned chain of events but that something then forced his hand and he found himself having to deal with Hastings before his plans had matured . What the ‘ something’ was can only be speculation . News of Richard 's letter to York may have leaked out and alerted Hastings .
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: yes)
The side levers ( Silver and Knitmaster ) , Change knob ( Brother ) and card levers ( Toyota ) must all be in the patterning position of course . You do n't need the extra brushes or rubber wheels for slip . As with tuck the punched holes on the card select the needles that will knit , while the blank select the needles that will slip . However , the basic rule for knitting slip and choosing the card are different . You can slip two or more needles side by side and most of the time it is preferable to do so in order to get a more definite design effect .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: no)
" I know , Miss Lucchesi told me " " May I walk a little way with you ? " Alice looked down the road and then back to Miss Lucchesi 's door with something like panic in her eyes . " Yes , " she said at last . " If you like . "
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: yes)
Although the Royal Navy was slow to appreciate the danger posed by Exocet in the Falklands conflict , it soon made amends . Just as the sinking of the Israeli destroyer Eilat by Egypt 's Russian - made styx missiles in 1967 spawned the new breed of anti - ship missiles such as Exocet , the destruction of HMS Sheffield is already causing a radical rethink by the world 's naval planners . As the only country with first - hand experience of modern missile warfare at sea Britain will benefit from its hard learned lesson . If the United states Navy had operated Sheffield , Congress would have openly debated the affair and heads would have rolled . Is the British MoD really serving anybody 's best interests by refusing to come clean ?
Idiom: in the same breath (used idiomatically: yes)
Kavanagh was buried there in the family plot after his death in 1967 . Signs point the way along a twisting path towards the site but give no warning of what is to come . Apart from a pile of fading wreaths and evidence of recent digging , the grave of Ireland 's most revered poet , spoken of today in the same bated breath as W. B. Yeats , is unmarked . The second grave is behind a roadside fence in the garden of the poet 's pebble - dashed birth - place in Mucker a mile away . It has the wooden cross and deck of old stepping stones which , until six weeks ago , identified Kavanagh 's final berth in Inniskeen .
Idiom: on the blink (used idiomatically: yes)
The silence disturbed me — more than the voice . I did n't know the forecast , but could see we were in for a storm . The floods had extinguished on the first stroke of the eleventh hour and I was sat watching the lightning fluttering like an electric city on the blink behind Gorsley Wood . It 's pretty when it 's silent . Down below the watchman was finishing his round , slow voice echoing between the buttress :
Idiom: bring up the rear (used idiomatically: yes)
Nomos ( Greek for melody , they tell us ! ) are four musicians from various parts of this island who find themselves living and playing in Cork . On concertina is Niall Vallely of the well - respected Co. Armagh musical family;Gerry McKee hails from Antrim but has spent what seems like a lifetime playing his mandocello in Clare;Liz Doherty from Buncrana is on fiddle , and bringing up the rear is Wexford bodhran beater Frank Torpey . Traditional music at its very best ! Festival Ceilidh with The Panama Band and exhibition dancing from The Belfast Set Dancers
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
DAVID REID / School Board member ; 1.40 JIM DELAHUNT Hearts have tonight asked two of their longest serving players to help raise the money required to redevelop Tynecastle . The players will form part of a six man committee set up to oversee the Subscription Scheme which chairman Wallace Mercer hopes will entice fans to help pay for the renovations . Hearts skipper Craig Levein and midfielder Gary Mackay are the players who 've agreed to join two members of the supporters federation , one from the shareholders association and chairman Alex Kitson on the committee .
Idiom: get it up (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ No , of course not . She 'll love it . She wo n't be able to get it up on her own anyway . She 'll just have it when she goes out with you . The four healthy children lay sound asleep , their breaths coming and going almost visibly in the light from the street lamp that came through the flowered cotton curtains .
Idiom: do the honours (used idiomatically: yes)
For the second year running the theme of the world 's leading book fair ( until 5 October ) has been Hispanic . The Mexican Nobel prize - winner Octavio Paz gave the inaugural address , and the Kongresshalle houses a big exhibition on Mexican written culture , with inscribed tablets , stele and Prehispanic codices , through to the present day . Actually , the former Soviet Union had been invited to do the honours but declined , not being up to it organisationally nor economically at present . Far from feeling second best , the Mexicans have taken up the challenge with vigour : ‘ We aim to be a cultural invasion of Frankfurt and the rest of Germany’ , said the Mexican commissioner , Eugenia Meyer . Dutch paintings : the state collection
Idiom: anything goes (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's like it 's it was a you know it 's been and still is an experience you know it 's sort of n none of us almost you know we we do n't realize it 's happening and you know you like back on the minutes of . We 've tried to keep our our support group also you know to go back sort of as loose as possible that we have n't great great format of a chair and a secretary and a treasurer although we do have that frame work because we 've discovered we also needed some sort of structure . And if you look back at the minutes and then Yona I think she 's great as the secretary because she does n't let anything go but on the other hand she 's pretty informal about and the way th that over the weeks you know somebody er Julie or June or Mervia Ann come up with the suggestion that they maybe feel why do n't we do this and then by the next week it 's turned into a a rally or a big picket or or a record . I mean they 're they 're all gon na do this this record next week erm the quarry men are going to do their own record with . You know and it 's a sort of awareness you know then and and now we talk about , Oh we 've got to stay together after the strike I mean what what are we going to do .
Idiom: off the mark (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes , and who owns both horses ? That 's Prince Khaled Abdullah . Khaled Abdullah , well you 're first in , quickest off the mark , so you win yourself ‘ Racehorses of nineteen ninety’ . Paul Stone from Kidlington , Mick Casey from Abingdon and Andrew Norton from Thame and Ivan Lomas from Carterton , all of them win the runners up prizes , which is Time Form 's ‘ Horses to Follow’ . Do you know the prize that you 're winning ?
Idiom: in the bag (used idiomatically: yes)
I think they were on their own . Were they er l loose or were they in a packet ? In a packet in a bag . I just take That 's that 's the apples .
Idiom: see the light (used idiomatically: yes)
Little else had been done to harmonize or soften the concrete 's grey immensity . But this was what he liked , the wide expanse of turbulent sea , browny - grey , white - laced under a limitless sky , windows which he could open so that , at a touch of his hand , the faint continuous boom like distant thunder would instantaneously pour into his office in a roar of crashing billows . He liked best the stormy winter evenings when , working late , he could see the lights of shipping prinking the horizon as they made their way down the coast to the Yarmouth lanes , and see the flashing lightships and the beam from Happisburgh Lighthouse , which for generations had warned mariners of the treacherous offshore sands . Even on the darkest night , by the light which the sea seemed mysteriously to absorb and reflect , he could make out the splendid fifteenth - century west tower of Happisburgh Church , that embattled symbol of man 's precarious defences against this most dangerous of seas . And it was a symbol of more than that .
Idiom: say cheese (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's more like a grimace . This is me , David . I 'm not a photographer , asking you to say ' cheese ' . What 's happened ? ' ' How was Moira Charles ? '
Idiom: all wet (used idiomatically: no)
I 'd like to stay lying down for a bit to make my headache go away , but I made a puddle on the pavement and I got to move . I get up and lean against the window and sort of pat down my coat . I 'm all embarrassed cos my mac 's all wet with the pee . There 's a big warm patch on the back . My trousers and socks are wet too .
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: no)
Voice over The Soren Larson was on her first voyage for seven months when the accident happened . She 'd been completely refitted in Gloucester docks and was on her way to Southampton via the Gloucester to Sharpness canal . The crew tried to sail her through a narrow gap at a bridge in Purton . But that gap was too tight .
Idiom: head for the hills (used idiomatically: no)
GEAR TEST 40–50 litre RUCKSACKS Paul Traynor heads for the hills with seven mid - sized rucksacks , ideal for long hostel - based routes or shorter backpacking trips . Here 's how they fared There are times , especially in winter , when the average daysack just ca n't handle all you want to shove into it .
Idiom: tongue in cheek (used idiomatically: yes)
Because , Nizan asserts , Friedmann is unable to perceive the necessity of the organic link between theory and practice , he is led not only to the purely academic conclusion that it is incorrect to speak of the " philosophy " of either Lenin or Stalin , but also , and more significantly , to an inability to perceive the fundamentally different objectives pursued by Lenin and Trotsky . " There is no longer any possible comparison to be made between the man who is actively organising the construction of socialism , and the man who is endeavouring to wreck it . " There is nothing tongue - in - cheek about these statements . Nizan is not simply mouthing the party line here . This is the expression of a man deeply committed to the practical development of the Soviet socialist state , dismissive of esoteric philosophical debates which fail to take into account the material conditions of the socialist experiment , and preoccupied above all with the need to defend an increasingly isolated Soviet Union from potentially damaging criticisms , however well intentioned they might be .