Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: life and limb (used idiomatically: yes)
Dangling from one hand he carried the object he had brought from the corpse - strewn forecourt of the gas station . As he approached his defeated enemy , he felt no sense of triumph , which surprised him after all the frustrating years of hunting him down . Instead , he felt only a strong desire to bring the whole thing to a finish … to do what he had come to do , risking life and limb in the process . Reaching the silent wreck , Curtis walked up to the open driver 's door , which was hanging askew on one twisted hinge . He stood for a minute or so gazing down expressionlessly at the pale , bloodless face of the Prophet .
Idiom: watering hole (used idiomatically: no)
A secretary 's voice . No , Major Morton was not in , she had no idea . There was more implied than said : it was Friday afternoon , it was getting on , the watering holes were filling up . He wondered if he dared ring Brendan Bracken , perhaps drift round to Morpeth Mansions , who knew , Winston might be up , himself . But damn them .
Idiom: horses for courses (used idiomatically: yes)
It became clear during the piloting of the original interpreter training courses that there would be a need to train trainers with specific skills if the model were to be adopted on a national basis . Only a skilled community interpreter with teaching skills can teach community interpreting . It is horses for courses . Teaching language for the literature and history of a country is a valuable and essential exercise but it is as different from teaching community interpreting as dressage is from steeple chasing . Eventually the traditional route to professional training will emerge whereby qualified community interpreters will , after a defined period of professional practice and experience , be trained to pass on their skills .
Idiom: horses for courses (used idiomatically: yes)
That was Kenny 's strength . Mind you , I suffered a number of times because of this . Kenny had a ' horses - for - courses ' policy and he 'd sometimes switch to a five - man defence and leave out me or Peter Beardsley . He was slated for his tactics when they went wrong , but how often did that happen ? I think people were just dying to seize upon anything they could find .
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ It scares me to death . I just look at the aircraft and wonder ‘ Is this one going to stay up there’ . ‘ It is something I have had to come to terms with because in the past couple of years I have had to fly hundreds of times . It never gets any better , and I never do any less flying.’ Kylie hardly drinks , her occasional tipple is a pina colada , so that is not something she can resort to in order to overcome her nerves .
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
Ideally each knows the strengths and disadvantages of small as well as large schools . And it is the variety of a head 's management experience which provides a sense of realism . Ideals and a vision of education 's unrealized potential have to go hand in hand with pragmatism . Satisfactory staff relationships can not be achieved simply by issuing instructions . But heads do nevertheless need to say what has to be changed from time to time— and should see the need for change before their colleagues .
Idiom: dig deep (used idiomatically: no)
It was raining intermittently all the time they were in the cemetery , the pines bowing and shivering in the wind . Sometimes they had had to stop and take shelter under the closely planted - trees . If the weather had held and still been hot and dry would they have dug deeper ? Probably not . In spite of the rain , the earth was still as hard as iron .
Idiom: follow suit (used idiomatically: yes)
For now , you 'd better fasten your seatbelt.’ He was already taking his own advice . Paige followed suit with hands that trembled . She felt cold and clammy at the same time . ‘ We 're going to crash , are n't we?’
Idiom: in your blood (used idiomatically: yes)
Higher levels of protein in the urine can be linked with high - blood pressure or pre - eclampsia , so this would be an important warning sign for your doctor . Q. Is there a possibility of pregnancy diabetes ? Some sugar in the urine is fairly common in pregnancy , but if the level is high your doctor might run another test for sugar levels in your blood , to seen if you need special attention and advice about diabetes . Fortunately , most cases of diabetes which arise during pregnancy disappear afterwards . Q. Are you having problems with swelling ?
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
About er , ne , nearer two thousand than , than a thousand . Well these garish things always are . I mean , for that I could have , do a lovely one for under , a reasonable price , and they 're going straight for the cord . Yeah . Comes with matching pouffe and things like that .
Idiom: out of sight (used idiomatically: no)
Mullah ~ Mohammad ~ Omar , the Taleban leader who fled to Pakistan after U.S .- led forces routed his fighters in Afghanistan , has resurfaced with a message asking all Muslims to join his fight . Mullah ~ Omar dropped out of sight in late 2001 , but he is believed to be in hiding somewhere near the Afghan - Pakistani border . In a message distributed during the past several days in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar , his former stronghold , the Taleban leader said his forces are intensifying their fight against those whom he called foreign occupiers of their homeland .
Idiom: tit for tat (used idiomatically: yes)
There are probably lots of mixtures of slightly nasty strategies with nice and very forgiving strategies that are together capable of invading . Some might see this as a mirror for familiar aspects of human life . Axelrod recognized that Tit for Tat is not strictly an ESS , and he therefore coined the phrase ' collectively stable strategy ' to describe it . As in the case of true ESSs , it is possible for more than one strategy to be collectively stable at the same time . And again , it is a matter of luck which one comes to dominate a population .
Idiom: rough and tumble (used idiomatically: yes)
Some of them are returned to normal prisons before they ever make the intensive group therapy regime . But it 's what happens to the ones who succeed which raises serious questions . Many of them go through the freedom of Grendon , only to be returned to the rough and tumble of ordinary jails to finish their sentences . Will all the good work go to waste ? Male speaker
Idiom: steal the show (used idiomatically: yes)
By Chris Hutchins THE big names of British showbusiness were out in force at this year 's Royal Variety Show — but it was overseas performers who milked the loudest applause . American singer Gloria Estefan and Bolshoi Ballet stars Yuri Klevtsov and Madezhda Gracheva stole the show in front of a West End audience which included Prince Charles and Princess Diana . The power of Gloria was matched only by the grace of the Russian dancers . Another big favourite was 75-year - old tenor Josef Locke .
Idiom: every man for himself (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Best get on , get off and get out , love,’ said Malc gently , and went off to watch Tanya dispose of the tennis balls , leaving me to climb into my home - made stage gear . Tanya finished to a burst of indifference as a hand bearing a microphone was thrust through the curtain that separated the lions from the Christians . ‘ Take the mike , give us your dots , you 've got an eight - bar play on , then it 's every man for himself . What 's your name?’ ‘ Marti Caine.’
Idiom: up sticks (used idiomatically: yes)
Be prepared also for an interview with an immigration panel at the country 's High Commission or Embassy in London . It normally takes six months from filling out a form to getting permission to emigrate . Do your homework before applying to permanently up sticks . Check the comparative cost of living overseas as well as job prospects and wages . Remember also that few other countries have the same level of free health care and social welfare that we have in Britain .
Idiom: on the spur of the moment (used idiomatically: yes)
Women are being discriminated against.’ She got a big round of applause , but no one spoke in her support . It was an insight which came to her on the spur of the moment . Earlier she had always insisted that men and women were the same — all in it together . Now she thought differently .
Idiom: rise to the occasion (used idiomatically: yes)
Gould meanwhile was some 60 miles north of Hobart in the ‘ interior of Van Diemen 's Land’ at Spring Hill Inn , his thoughts engrossed in collecting . Aubdubon 's scepticism about Gould 's ability to meet the strenuous physical demands of life in the bush proved to be without foundation . Gould rose to the occasion and , driven by the feverish excitement of a treasure - seeker , surmounted every obstacle Tasmania 's chequered geography could throw at him . On 3 January he shot what he later called the ‘ Clinking Currawong’ , or Strepera arguta . With somewhat unconvincing ostentation , given Gould 's ignorance of Latin , he describes how he coined the most appropriate name for this unusual species .
Idiom: cast your mind back (used idiomatically: yes)
Fine thanks , very , very beneficial , yeah . Something er i it 's unlikely to be a negative response so if you hopefully it 's gon na be some form of positive response I 'm glad you should say that because if you cast your mind back to when we first talked I did say that if you were happy , and only if you 're happy , half a dozen introductions . Now we spoke about Bob Smith or whoever , tell me what 's his telephone number because I 'd like to meet the guy and see what he says .
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: yes)
A popular method is to use post cards . They can be held in the hand . The usual method is to write each main point and supporting information on a single card . Because they are small they do not give the audience the impression that you are reading from notes which does happen if your notes are on A4 size paper . Visual aids
Idiom: get it up (used idiomatically: no)
Well that was a glorious opportunity was n't it . Coming off the back of some more good build up play from er Leicester . Good little stand in ball there you see Laws ca n't quite get it up on it . No he big sticks there falling on his left foot . It maybe came down a little bit too slow for him .
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: no)
' One Balzac , ' wrote Karl Marx , ' is worth a hundred Zolas . ' By this he meant that authentic observation and insight will always trump the polemical or the politically correct . Mailer 's longest essay on the CIA in the 1970s was called , after Balzac 's masterpiece , A Harlot High and Low . His novel partakes of the Balzacian qualities of historical sweep , sexual energy and generational reach . The objective spoken by the central character , but clearly articulated by Mailer himself , is to get at , if not actually become , ' the mind of America ' .
Idiom: drop someone a line (used idiomatically: yes)
£ 5 for letters REMEMBER Office Talk is a publication circulated to everyone working in central departments . It is YOUR noticeboard , so if you have anything to say that you want others to know about , drop us a line on the 1Oth floor , Drury House , & . We will send £ 5 worth of Sainsbury 's vouchers to the authors of all published letters . RETIREMENTS
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: yes)
He lay down on the bed . ' I was just coming home when I got hit in the engine . Fortunately it did n't go off , but it made a hell of a mess , and I came down in a shell - hole just outside our wire . ' ' In no - man 's - land ? ' Killion said .
Idiom: in the final analysis (used idiomatically: yes)
A tactful environmental lobby , a sympathetic farmer and a smattering of goodwill on both sides may continue to produce encouraging results . But for how long ? In the final analysis a farmer must make a profit and all the economic pressures on farmers will eventually lead them to place agriculture before environmental conservation . So a conflict of interest remains . Already , for example , birds of prey which are saved from accidental poisoning by pesticides are being deliberately shot , trapped or poisoned as their numbers increase once more .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
I had promised him I would be there for the Visit.’ She bent over Yussuf and splashed water on his face . He opened his eyes , saw her and struggled to sit up . ‘ Away , woman!’ he said . ‘ I have no need of Copts.’
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: yes)
It could be invested : in art , in antiques or a second home . It could give your family a long - awaited and richly deserved holiday . Or it could help you re - structure your finances by paying off all you owe on store cards , credit cards and hire purchase . Up to £ 50,000 . YOU DECIDE HOW MUCH YOU NEED .
Idiom: under the table (used idiomatically: yes)
Slowly he rose to his feet . As he did so , some loose change fell out of his trouser 's pocket and rolled under the table . Jack crawled under the table to pick it up , then wriggled over on to his back , catching sight of something . Underneath the table , carved into the stone , was some kind of design . It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it .
Idiom: put a foot wrong (used idiomatically: yes)
Blackrock ‘ rescued’ by Ulster THERE can be no complaints about the running of last weekend 's Irish National Championship in Dublin . The Blackrock Club never put a foot wrong and the host association — the Bowling League of Ireland —‘also’ played their part in making it a worthwhile championship . However , sadly to say , there was one cloud which marred an otherwise super weekend … the absence of support from the BLI bowlers . If enthusiasts had not travelled from the Private Greens , the Provincial Bowling Association and especially , the Northern Ireland Bowling Association there would have been a sepulchral atmosphere about the whole thing .
Idiom: take it or leave it (used idiomatically: yes)
I do it the way I feel it . And people know it . Take it or leave it . That 's the way I do it . That 's the only way I do it . '
Idiom: go to ground (used idiomatically: no)
Give the players a bit more time . At the moment there 's too much whistle and so too many stoppages . Also they are very severe on the second man going to ground . If he does then , yet again , the whistle goes . The first player can hit the deck but the support , as it drives over , must all stay on its feet .
Idiom: have an eye for (used idiomatically: no)
Of course , a birth certificate allowed a man to be a bit flamboyant , while the directory , which might bring him trade , needed to be perfectly honest about what he was up to … In general , apprenticed originally as a silversmith as he was , Benjamin would always return to this professional description when all else failed . There was a certain entrepreneurial spirit about our man ; he seems to have had an eye for the main chance , and at no time more so than in 1854 , when he left behind the delights of Hoxton and begun a brief flirtation with the idea of running a lodging house . And he did so at what must have been a very fashionable address : 36 Wilmington Square , Spa Fields , peopled with Esquires and seemingly rather an unlikely location for such an enterprise . In 1852 , two years previously , there was a certain Samuel Baker Morris , Esq . , living at no . 36 ; by 1856 it was occupied by Charles Hilton Lawrence , Esq .
Idiom: pick up the tab (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's not a cost effect on us . Well . We should n't be picking up the tab . No . No .
Idiom: make the cut (used idiomatically: no)
By Bryan Azzopardi at Rare Moods Figure - hugging hair from Trevor Sorbie ! Perfect ‘ feathering’ makes the cut Hair is in excellent condition and these corkscrew curls really shine ! By Charlie Miller
Idiom: out to lunch (used idiomatically: yes)
Carolyn smiled and nodded to them , sitting down quickly . ‘ Johnson 's another one with his nose in the trough,’ said the woman , who was talking to Alan . ‘ Have n't you noticed how often he takes his dear friend Councillor Waverly out to lunch?’ Alan smiled and shook his head . ‘ I 'm naive , are n't I ? ’ he said .
Idiom: go to the mat (used idiomatically: yes)
White duly came down to London from his home in Wolverhampton — he is the senior member of a remarkable quartet of Elvis Gordon , Dennis Stewart and the banned Kerrith Brown who have all won medals at world level , yet all train in the back room of an Edwardian bath house . White faced the official carpeting , defused the attacks with a firm but polite dignity , and went off to catch the next train unaffected by the experience . He went straight back on to the mat to work with his judo partner of a decade and more , Brown . Characteristically , he refuses to make any secret of his work with Brown , whose Olympic drugs ban has one more year to run ; nor , in loyal fashion , does he have any doubts that Brown will return to competition and go straight to the top . ' There is n't a man in Britain who would be able to touch him at lightweight or light middleweight , ' he said .
Idiom: night and day (used idiomatically: yes)
Several air missions returning with their bombs still in place , much to the frustration of the pilots . Because it is ground offensive in sand , you want to be able to see that if you 're being shot , we could n't we could n't do that , and it became questionable whether we were actually going to be able to see the ground or not , so we called it aboard . As waves of combat mission flew out by night and day , the commander of this R A F tornado squadron warned that despite early successes , the task was never going to be easy . There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process . The tornados highly effective runway - busting bombs carry a personal message to Saddam Hussein from the R A F.
Idiom: lick someone's boots (used idiomatically: yes)
Julia nodded unhappily . ‘ I think it 's psychological satisfactions of that sort which he 's after and which Rosamund puts in his path . Just letting people know that , if he chooses , he could make life very uncomfortable for them , so they 'd better lick his boots had n't they?’ ‘ But it 's perverted,’ Julia protested . ‘ Only mildly so , in the Church 's terms at least.’
Idiom: pearly whites (used idiomatically: no)
To Jean at work , she said wonderingly , ' I know they all do , these days , I know that . But she does seem young . It does n't seem more than a few months since I was knitting clothes for her dolls — and now — ' She held up her needles , speared through the left front of a pearly - white matinée jacket . Alan 's parents were perfectly civilized about the marriage , and Alan took considerable satisfaction in the fact that he knew they were rather shocked . Serve them right .
Idiom: stand up and be counted (used idiomatically: yes)
Was he still threatening Graham ? Mike , beginning to feel some exhilaration as he thought about the piece he would now have to write , and write bloody fast , pushed the thought away . If he does lean on Graham again after tomorrow , then I 'll stand up and be counted . After tomorrow . If necessary .
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
The nose was rather hooked , slightly splayed , a ‘ tribal’ nose , thought Lee , the skin brown like wrapping - paper but pearlized as if touched by moonshine . The hair was black , cropped short , the mouth looked like a casket holding mighty documents , and the eyes — the eyes were blue like electric shock - waves and held Lee as the eyes of an O'Toole or Cooper hold the audience when in close - up , like magnets , obliterating backdrops , Chinese plains , crazy broads , plots , accompanying scores , Orson Welles , everything . Lee turned her head away , looked down at her own navel and tried not to think about her mother . From this face came the question about the Ayckbourn play . ‘ No , I didn't,’ Lee answered , and waited .
Idiom: head south (used idiomatically: yes)
On Monday morning , I stood in a queue at the Diamond , and waited for the Dublin coach . It came at last , a huge long - distance coach , with high steps in the doorway . Soon we were off , heading south on the coastal Sligo Road . When we crossed the River Erne , at Ballyshannon , we turned inland , driving between hilly green fields and wet woodland , near the banks of the river . There was a long halt , as a traffic jam piled up ahead .
Idiom: raise the roof (used idiomatically: no)
A wide selection of cars are available , and all manufacturers try to include a range to suit varying disabilities . The fact that the car must be returned at the end of the hire term means that the range of adaptation is limited to those that can be easily attached and removed , eg hand controls , wheelchair hoists , rotating seats , etc . If you wist to alter the car struturally , eg raise the roof to take a seated wheelchair passenger or change the doors to ramps , you would have to obtain a car through Car Chair , Gowrings or Widnes Car Centre Ltd , or buy the car on hire purchase . For most cars you will have to give up the whole of your mobility supplement for the three year period . You may need to make an advance payment ( the difference between the total cost of the three year hire for the vehicle selected and the amount of finance available from mobility supplement ) , but for smaller cars there may not be anything to pay .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah . Right okay . Now erm all the gifts that you give at Confirmation the whole idea of Confirmation in well one of the main ideas of Confirmation is taking on board for yourself what your parents promised for you in baptism . Yeah ? And erm the we are given or they h one of the reasons or the purposes behind Confirmation is to give us the strength to use the gifts which God 's al has already given us .
Idiom: take it or leave it (used idiomatically: yes)
Not merely poetry in motion , but surrealist poetry ! As with the Hebrew prophets , there were no greys , no subtle shades . Though he is meticulous in his choice of words and turns of phrase ; his attitude , his demands , are for black and white : take it or leave it ; but at least recognise that you have been offered it . SELF HOOD , POETRY AND MUSIC In the year in which they met , 1954 , Layton had two books of poetry published — he does nothing by halves!— and Leonard was clearly dazzled by the man 's prolific genius .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: yes)
It is well known that he organized the transportation of Dürer 's Rosenkranzfest ( a painting full of Habsburg symbolism , including the portraits of Maximilian I and Pope Julius II ) across the Alps from Venice , with four bearers to hold it upright . This great canvas is one of the few of Rudolf 's collection to remain in Prague . Rudolf 's reign saw a growing interest in decorative arts of great refinement and opulence , as found in the work in gold and jewels of the Jamnitzers or the designs of the Vredeman de Vries family , the pietra dura panels of the Castrucci or the glass and cameos of the Miseroni family ( see p. 121 ) . The third and fourth rooms were adapted in 1965 by F. Cubr and house paintings from the collection founded by the Emperor Ferdinand III . Some of these came from the Duke of Buckingham 's important collection , bought at auction in 1648 by the archduke Leopold Vilém , brother of the emperor .