Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: get stuck in (used idiomatically: yes)
Sandeep Joshi , who is playing league cricket for Hayes this summer , comprehensively beat England 's key middle - order batsman several times . ‘ Robin improved with spin in India and I think he will be able to get runs against Warne this summer,’ said Fletcher . ‘ He 'll get stuck in against him and we all know if the chips are down when the seamers are on , Robin is the one . He 's got tremendous guts . ‘ We are not underestimating Warne but the pitch at Old Trafford did respond to spin .
Idiom: take heart (used idiomatically: yes)
So let us be serious : our purpose here is not to kid anybody , to try to convince you that things are any better than they seem . They ai n't . It is , however , to suggest that we all take heart . To heed the lessons of history . To take comfort in the simple truth about Hard Times : that however rotten things might seem at the moment , they will most assuredly seem altogether quaint fifty years from now .
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: yes)
He said : ' It was a struggle at first , because when we took over , we discovered that most of the team had left , so we had to find players quickly . ' We 've searched the local leagues for talent in an effort to bring in new blood , and hopefully a few more will be coming in the near future . ' Bridge moved up a place at the weekend to fourth from bottom , without playing a game , as Bedlington had three points deducted for playing an ineligible player , and so swapped places with the Darlington club . Shute will probably start the game tomorrow night , as he has work doubts over defender Dave Bowman and striker Mark Shield , while another midfielder , Micky George will have a fitness test . Noel Young , signed from Evenwood , will make his debut .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: no)
Good ! That 's if I Well I 've given some , I 've not gone all the way round . I spent about an hour and a half this morning , I thought well it 's time to stop . It 's very time consuming though innit ?
Idiom: high and dry (used idiomatically: yes)
I have heard stories where such people will offer you something that appears to be ‘ too good to be true’ . ‘ When you expect a deal to happen they may tell you there has been a last minute problem and the people either providing the funds or the guarantee either require a non - performance bond to be put up or require some kind of payment up front to prove you really mean business . The money , however , always disappears — leaving the professional high and dry and minus a considerable sum of money . ‘ A little bit of knowledge is dangerous,’ concludes Mr Hann . ‘ These fraudsters will give you enough information to make you greedy and that 's when you are ready to be scammed because you are expecting to make a fortune.’
Idiom: put your foot down (used idiomatically: no)
‘ Take her to the doctor at once,’ Silas said abruptly . ‘ I suggested it , but she 's determined to wait until the morning because she 's hoping it 'll wear off.’ ‘ If it becomes worse you 'll wish you 'd put your foot down and that she was in Hastings Hospital,’ Silas said . ‘ By the way , this is Miss Telford — Bill Martin,’ he introduced belatedly . Bill nodded absently to Lucy , but with his mind full of his own problem he said to Silas , ‘ I know you 're right , boss — and you know what women are like —’
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
Wattana 's win means he has assumed World Series favourite status from Parrott , who began the day with a two-point lead after events in Beijing , Motherwell and Antwerp . A place in Saturday 's final would guarantee Wattana the title . On a happier note for Parrott , his manager Phil Miller is recovering well from last week 's heart bypass operation . ‘ That 's the best news I could possibly have , ’ said Parrott . Taylor grabs his chance to sink Windies
Idiom: squeaky clean (used idiomatically: yes)
Holograms are placed on real Microsoft products to distinguish them from fakes ; but they , too , were being mass - produced for counterfeiters by a university in China . That ring was broken , but others have since appeared . Software manufacturers fear that squeaky - clean Singapore may now emerge as a new centre for the pirates . Earlier this month Microsoft discovered pirated versions of MS - DOS 6 on sale in Singapore before the product 's official launch . Walt Disney released a film of Aladdin in America in November 1992 .
Idiom: in this day and age (used idiomatically: yes)
A few years ago , a hard drive was a luxury . A while later , 20 MB would suffice admirably , and probably leave a great chunk unused for many people . In this day and age , 100 MB is average , and people quite often discover that they 've got only a few kilobytes of space left , and usually at the most inopportune times . Little wonder , then , that disk doubling utilities have become so popular — Digital Research even included one , SuperStor , with DR - DOS 6.0 , and Microsoft is including its own proprietary compression utility with MS - DOS 6.0 . Enter IIT with Xtradrive , a very simple to install and use utility that , roughly , offers you a doubling of your disk capacity without the need to fiddle with hardware .
Idiom: get on someone's nerves (used idiomatically: yes)
Is it ? Oh ! I ca n't understand why it do n't get on her nerves , but you I know . ca n't , if people gon na ignore it
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
This will ensure that plants are n't damaged by the early morning sun , and that heat will be conserved when the temperature drops . As extractor fan fitted into the apex of the greenhouse at one end and controlled by a thermostat works efficiently . For proper ventilation , cool air must be drawn in at the base to replace the hot air that has been extracted . Most greenhouses are easily fitted with a louvred ventilator in place of a normal sheet of glass . One alternative is to fit individual automatic openers , such as Bayliss Autovents , to ventilators .
Idiom: rule the roost (used idiomatically: yes)
The spirits , for their part , are said not to like men . Why should women resort to such devious tactics ? The reason is , I think , partly that in this particular society men rule the roost and women have a low status and few rights they can directly exercise . Divorce is common and easily obtained by men : women can only achieve it with difficulty . So with the legal dice against them , women are forced to adopt such oblique means of redress and appeal as possession ‘ illnesses’ .
Idiom: on the button (used idiomatically: yes)
Almost everybody from the school - boy up wore his prescribed uniform , with the insignia of the Emperor on button and shoulder - strap .
Idiom: for good measure (used idiomatically: yes)
Telephone 071 407 6785 for more details . CAMELOT COMES TO ESSEX Knight Developments is , literally , selling a Lancelot at Camelot and , for good measure , is also offering a Galahad and Ivanhoe . Buyers might be surprised to discover the Lancelot is a five - bedroom , three - reception luxury home , priced at £ 185,000 and that Camelot is a small development of just four houses in Coggleshall , Essex —Galahad and Ivanhoe are the other house types . Telephone the selling agent , Bairstow Eves , on 0376 571818 .
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: yes)
Good Chris look at this , I know all my work , a smile and a star , good gracious what word you on next Seeing as we 've had those words for about a week I should think we do know them then . What have we got now ? What we on now ,
Idiom: on the horns of a dilemma (used idiomatically: yes)
L Detachment , carrying their weapons , bombs and personal equipment , proceeded to the forward airfield at Bagoush in high spirits . All of them were ready for action after the long period of training , but when they arrived they found that a gale had brewed up . Stirling , who had come direct from Eighth Army Headquarters , was on the horns of a dilemma . The most obvious solution was simply to cancel the operation as the weather was totally unsuitable for parachuting . The men would risk being scattered on landing and the pilots would find it difficult to navigate because of the sand being blown about by the wind .
Idiom: get cracking (used idiomatically: yes)
And see what 's happening . they would have a lot more customers whatever the price . Cos you want to get cracking do n't you ? Yeah . The they lose a lot of customers er to , to other people that sometimes charge them more .
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: no)
' His name was John . He was born sixteen years ago , and we realised that first winter that there was something wrong . I was doing my SHO in paediatrics at the time , and I had a word with my boss . He took one look at him , ran a battery of tests and told us he had cystic fibrosis . ' Kathleen closed her eyes .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: no)
On a man 's wrist . A March Calf Right from the start he is dressed in his best — his blacks and his whites Little Fauntleroy — quiffed and glossy , A Sunday , suit , a wedding natty get - up ,
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: no)
I can not venture to say whether the shake - up which we thought World War two might have given to Germany has done it . The Continental idea of the Briton , which had a lot of truth in it , was that he was a phlegmatic , rather unemotional , certainly undemonstrative erm creature of a northern climate . The French elaborated a lot of wonderful nonsense in the nineteenth century about the climate pauses of the British character , they said that because we all lived in the fog we were incapable of clear and distinct ideas , a sort of bogus science that you as a scientist would see through more quickly than people like me . Well , Britain is the country which ought to have had the proletarian revolution before any other . Marx thought it ought to .
Idiom: cry foul (used idiomatically: yes)
General secretary of the FDP , Mr Westerwelle , however , cried foul .
Idiom: put your foot in it (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes , I find it a lot easier actually not to know what they 've done , when you start work there you tend to come over these cases , which to do Yeah . as much as anything , but it 's only cos you 're writing a letter , and you say oh hello you writing a letter to mum , he says no I killed her to come here , you do n't put your foot in it a big way , but after a while because you know nobody there is nice it really makes a lot of difference people . you do n't think oh here comes a rapist , here 's a sex offender , he 's a whatever , just to take them as they come as people , because you 've got to treat them all the same anyway
Idiom: as the crow flies (used idiomatically: yes)
He waits on a balcony where the stairs divide . We are no more than a hundred yards apart . As the crow flies . Two hundred yards on foot : down the slope , across the pavement , up the stairs . He sees me watching him .
Idiom: Indian summer (used idiomatically: yes)
SPAIN — CORDOBA It would be very instructive to linger in the islands and on the other shores of the western Mediterranean , and explore the similarities and differences , for example , in the history of the Catalan and Spanish towns and the Italian . But we must hurry north , pausing only to observe that the most dramatic survivor from the early Middle Ages , and perhaps the greatest of all the cities of Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries , was Cordoba , then in its heyday under the caliphate and its first Indian summer . As a centre of culture , and a meeting place of civilizations , Cordoba remained vitally important through the days when the Jewish philosopher Maimonides was born there in the twelfth century and the Arab philosopher Averroes lived there in the thirteenth ; as a representative of a medieval city it is as eccentric as Palermo — indeed far more so ; for the cathedral at its centre is a mosque slightly disguised ; and the beauty and immense and impressive size of the mosque are constant reminders to the modern visitor that Christendom was a poor relation to Islam , perhaps in many senses , in the period between the eighth and the tenth centuries when it was built . But as a Muslim city it never aspired to , nor ever achieved , anything like the turbulent freedom of the Italian city republics , at least till much later .
Idiom: hope against hope (used idiomatically: yes)
She next went to the houses of friends of her daughter . According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . After this she returned to the house hoping against hope that in the interval her daughter might have returned , but there was no sign of her . She then set out to her sister 's , some considerable journey away on the other side of the town . At this time her husband was in fact not at home .
Idiom: run the gamut (used idiomatically: yes)
But the Australians have given it its own identity and the result is a number of big , peachy , buttery wines with a characteristic whiff of straw . Germany 's noblest grape the Riesling , called the Rhine Riesling in Australia , is the most widely planted classic variety in Australia , although it does have difficulty in finding a niche in our market . Rhine Riesling runs the gamut from dry to sweet , but it is generally dry . These dry whites are flowery and unripely green , possibly with a faint oily whiff , leading you into the soft , honeyed fruit . Sauvignon , that quintessential crisp , dry white variety , is popular in fashion - led Australia where it produces clean dry whites — but with a difference .
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
herself . She ate some breakfast . Work was out of the question , she could not think about it ; she did not dare go to the tower , she felt she had damaged something : loose talk means hubris . She hung about the villa . The day being Sunday there was no femme de ménage ; there was also nothing to do .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Nottm Forest v QPR Forest hope to have Stuart Pearce fit after a shin injury . Under - fire Mel Crossley continues in goal . Rangers expect to be unchanged . Last Season : Forest 1 , QPR 1 ; QPR 0 , Forest 2 .
Idiom: larger than life (used idiomatically: yes)
She prefers the auditorium , even when she is there in an official capacity , as John Young , chairman of the National Hospital , discovered to his dismay . The Princess had become patron of the hospital , where her father made his miraculous recovery after his cerebral haemorrhage in 1978 , and in May 1988 she had agreed to attend a gala performance of The Magic Flute at the London Coliseum . John Young , a larger - than - life figure , had automatically assumed the Princess would sit in the Royal Box , and had sold tickets in the belief that everyone in the theatre would have a view of the Princess . No , he was firmly told , the Princess would sit in the Dress Circle . He protested .
Idiom: see the light (used idiomatically: no)
Not only did Marx and Engels require tools for seeing society in a new way , they also needed to understand under what circumstances this newly defined system produced the institutions which other social scientists had studied . Neither could the evolutions of these institutions in themselves explain anything , since , in the perspective outlined above , these were mere side effects of a more fundamental order . What had to be understood was the process which led to the evolution of society seen in this new light . In order to do this , Marx and Engels turned to historical and anthropological information about past societies . Here also their task was to understand history not in terms of the evolution of institutions , but in terms of the evolution of society as they had redefined it .
Idiom: sit tight (used idiomatically: yes)
I am often asked what makes a good day for bolting rabbits , bearing in mind that on some occasions they will readily leave the ground regardless of surface conditions , whereas at other times — often under what appear to be favourable conditions — they just can not be budged . I am still searching for the answer to that one . To date I must admit that I do n't know why they sit tight . If they are already nervous — if , for example , a predator has recently been harassing them underground — they may be less inclined to endure further stress and make a bolt for it as soon as the ferret shows itself . But we must , I suppose , acknowledge that rabbits , like us , are living creatures and not always predictable .
Idiom: as a rule (used idiomatically: no)
The Net Book Agreement first came into force after the practice of ' underselling ' in the latter half of the nineteenth century had reached a stage where it threatened to undermine the whole of the book trade . The work of a few farsighted publishers and booksellers was responsible for the formulation of an agreement to protect book prices . The wording of the most recent draft of the Net Book Agreement ( 1957 ) states that , as a basic rule , ' net books shall not be sold … to the public at less than the net published prices ' . This means that the kind of discount which supermarkets , for example , are able to offer on other consumer goods can not be applied to books . It is important to remember that the ' net published prices ' are those set individually by each publisher for each of his books : they are not a form of collective trade price - fixing .
Idiom: in the saddle (used idiomatically: no)
A huge vat full of oil was bubbling over a monstrous bonfire and , bound hand and foot inside , stood a criminal being boiled to death . The screams , the smoke and the stench were , perhaps , a prophecy of the horrors which awaited us . Lady Clinton turned pale and would have fainted in the saddle if Benjamin had not caught her , whilst Sir Robert shouted abuse at the outriders , telling them to move on . We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city . The suburbs dwindled and , after an hour 's travelling , we turned a bend in the road and there , on the brow of a hill , outlined against a forest , stood the Chateau de Maubisson , a pleasant sight .
Idiom: stake a claim (used idiomatically: yes)
Lean The game is a dual purpose testimonial for the 50-year - old Eusebio and the first of two games to mark the 25th anniversary of United 's European Cup victory over the Portuguese club . Ironically both Hughes and McClair ended a long lean spell with goals against Oldham last week and both have the chance to stake a further claim against Arsenal today . But Cantona was bought to score goals and excite United 's impoverished fans , so one of them will have to make way against neighbours City at Old Trafford . A beaming Ferguson opened yesterday 's Old Trafford press conference with the words , ' Mon plaisir presenter Eric Cantona . '
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
As , as a matter of fact , my son you know those di things you have like you have for the television like a switch box ? Oh a remote control Re remote control yes , well my son has one of those he has an electric garage door on his house , and a copper frisked him before he went in last season cos he , he 's a younger bloke and er he said what 's this and he pulled it out of his pocket , he said it 's to open my garage door with he said what do you think it is a death ray or something yeah . Are there any refreshments available at the ground ? Yeah well they do n't sell er drink any more , not alcoholic drink but there are , there are tea , pies and those sort of things available .
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: yes)
How would you feel if someone said that about you behind your back ?
Idiom: laughing stock (used idiomatically: yes)
He said the conversion would take three years and the pitfalls were unknown . ‘ It is a risk , but it 's something I have wanted to do for some time and I believe it is feasible . We are determined to make it work — the last thing I want is to be a laughing stock among local farmers if I fail.’ He said the way drug , chemical and fertiliser companies and supermarket chains were manipulating the public 's opinions and buying habits and dictating to farmers was ‘ frightening’ . An example he cites of the way drugs are pervading the industry is the experiment with BST hormone which is being injected into cows , including animals on farms in Somerset , to improve milk yields .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
She nodded . ‘ Listen to me , Jenny . If I only ever give you one piece of advice in life — which is highly likely on the face of it — it 's stay away from that man . I once made the mistake you 're thinking of making and I 've never got over it . You and him are finished now and there 's the end to it.’
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: no)
support for the Bill . The right hon . Gentleman 's determination to oppose the Bill shows an abiding contempt for the feelings of ordinary voters , including no doubt many in his constituency . It is not for me to offer helpful advice to the right hon . Gentleman , but I shall do so : when in a hole , one should stop digging . Only a week ago , the right hon . Gentleman appeared on BBC Radio 's ' The World this Weekend'and dug with the vigour of a navvy . First , he pooh - poohed the idea that the number of those claiming asylum was continuing to rise .
Idiom: off the shelf (used idiomatically: no)
Yeah . ones left in the library . Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes Right . erm I know it , I know it , I know it 's , yeah mm
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: yes)
The Government 's economic role in the north - east — as elsewhere — is to create a climate in which businesses can prosper and , in turn , generate strong and sustainable employment growth . However , in view of the region 's deep - rooted difficulties — such as its overdependence on declining industries — the Government have sought to underpin the policies with substantial central support . Indeed , the north - east region has benefited to the tune of more than £ 3.5 billion since 1979 . Much of that public sector support has been designed also to attract investment from private enterprise . Teesside urban development corporation , for instance , is an example of the Government using pump priming to attract private sector money and skills to help in the process of urban regeneration .
Idiom: go west (used idiomatically: no)
WYCOMBE went home with everything but the one prize they wanted last night — a place in the third round of the FA Cup . A standing ovation from the 17,640 spectators at the Hawthorns , and the admiration of Sky TV viewers accompanied them back to Buckinghamshire . But the home tie with West Ham in the next round went to Second Division West Bromwich Albion . Wycombe were beaten by Bob Taylor 's 82nd-minute winner , and their disconsolate boss Martin O'Neill said : ‘ I was actually looking forward to extra-time because I was so sure we would win . ‘ I was even thinking about how we would play against West Ham .