Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: warts and all (used idiomatically: yes)
A new British company , Living Memories , will produce an illustrated album of company or family biography for a typical price of £ 500 for a family , £ 2,000 for a company . Most sophisticated of all , Terry Gourvish , director of the London School of Economics ' business history unit , charges up to £ 150,000 for a three to four - year company history project employing two full - time researchers . No vanity here : the result is a warts - and - all publication intended as salutary reading during management training . Rowntree and Glaxo are at present under his scrutiny . Such in - depth research is what Sunday - morning collecting should evolve into but seldom does .
Idiom: lift a finger (used idiomatically: yes)
The door behind her cranked open . She turned and saw the man in the bowler . He looked beyond her and lifted one finger in a beckoning gesture . Four undertaker 's men slid out of the shadows of the vestry and , picking up the coffin , bore it up the aisle . The vicar paced behind , holding his prayer book , his hair floating up and down in the draught from the door .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
Armageddon Can Wait CAMBRIDGE – Where are global currencies headed in 2011 ? After three years of huge , crisis - driven exchange - rate swings , it is useful to take stock both of currency values and of the exchange - rate system as a whole . And my best guess is that we will see a mix of currency wars , currency collapses , and currency chaos in the year ahead – but that this wo n’t spell the end of the economic recovery , much less the end of the world . Let ’s start by acknowledging that the modern system of floating exchange rates has , on the whole , acquitted itself remarkably well .
Idiom: easy on the eye (used idiomatically: yes)
All in a package that measures just 12.7″ x 12.4″ x 2.4″. The 316sl provides top performance in MS - DOS , OS/2 , XENIX and Novell environments . The clarity of the superb 8″ x 6″ 16-greyscale VGA sidelit display is easy on the eye , whatever the conditions . To view in colour , just plug your monitor into the external VGA video port — also fully compatible with all pre - VGA standards . You can even connect a 5.25″ diskette drive to the external drive port .
Idiom: streets ahead (used idiomatically: yes)
Lily said , ‘ No , we can get Miss Bradshaw 's signature any time we want it’ , and Vernon shouted that they had a perfect right to loiter on a public pavement . The leading man came out arm in arm with a girl with corkscrew curls , followed by a chap in a duffle coat , who wore a monocle and flashed a sardonic smile as though he was a member of the SS . Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . They caught up with her in Cases Street , crouching on her haunches outside the tobacconist 's . ‘ For God 's sake,’ cried Lily , ‘ stop making an exhibition of us.’
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
' You seen her going in and out ? ' asked Constance . ' No , ' said Scarlet , ' but then I do n't notice much . ' She found it easier to live in a faint fog , at one remove from what most people called reality . ' She 's let me down , ' said Constance . ' She 's supposed to be Miss Kind and Caring , and she 's let me down . '
Idiom: follow in someone's footsteps (used idiomatically: yes)
And he returns to that one angry , unsigned letter . ‘ If my enthusiasm for fighting cancer and its causes offended anyone , I am sorry,’ he says . ‘ But I shall remain enthusiastic — for the sake anyone following in my footsteps.’ STILL FIGHTING : Recent scans detect no cancer — but doctors have warned Roy against being over- optimistic FEELING FIT : Roy has already returned to work Pictures : BILL ROWNTREE
Idiom: tread the boards (used idiomatically: yes)
Fast acting WHEN Graham Gabriel says he needs three actors who can learn lines quickly and accurately he is not being over - dramatic . If they start today they have something under three weeks before treading the boards . The parts are key ones in an adaptation of a novel by Flann O'Brien called The Third Policeman . If the play is half as funny as the book it will be a rip - roaring affair .
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
I 've had a horrible journey , squashed next to a big fat woman and her squabbling children . She insisted on telling me her entire life story , regardless of whether I wanted to listen or not . ' pulling a disgruntled face , Jean Reece - Carlton wiped her brow with a delicate embroidered handkerchief . ' Why I ever allowed Stephen to talk me into coming here is beyond me . He knows I hate the heat . '
Idiom: free rein (used idiomatically: yes)
The last one was in 1981 . Since then chancellors of the exchequer have been able to put together their annual tax plans in relatively favourable circumstances . The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax - reforming ambitions . Nigel Lawson 's corporation tax reforms of 1984 and personal tax reforms of 1988 ( when he established a single higher rate of income tax of 40 % ) , will have repercussions for many years to come . So too , if more modestly will John Major 's budget , the ‘ savers ' budget’ of a year ago .
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: yes)
They were then hoisted by crane onto the after end of ‘ Ark Royal’ and with little delay off we went into the Mediterranean . We left in three flights , each led by a Fulmar for navigational purposes , some 500 nautical miles from Malta ( my logbook shows the flight took three hours and 20 minutes ) . We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . We were held off Malta for a while because of air raids ( so what 's new ! ) before landing at Hal Far . Later we flew to Takali where we joined 261 Squadron.’
Idiom: spin a yarn (used idiomatically: yes)
It was as blank as a stone worn by aeons of tides on the seashore . ' What else did she talk about ? ' ' She tried to spin me a yarn about her husband going back to Poland on holiday in 1950 and being killed in a car crash . What do you know about it ? ' Blanche expected him to mutter with disbelief as she had when she had digested the story .
Idiom: in my book (used idiomatically: no)
Well what do n't you understand ? About all this at Tay Bridge . About other things in my book . Mm mm . Anyway , come on , let 's go get ready .
Idiom: keep your head (used idiomatically: no)
SUMMERCHILD : What list ? SERAFIN : The list we have been consulting . The list that you apparently keep inside your head of things that enhance the quality of life . ( More intriguing byways opening off the main road here ! Let us ignore them . )
Idiom: on the mend (used idiomatically: yes)
Ironically , Gough 's rash challenge on Ferguson at Tannadice resulted in a booking which carries him over the disciplinary points threshold and costs Rangers the services of their captain when they visit Arbroath for the Scottish Cup , quarter - final tie on 6 March . Gough could always write back to the Scottish League — as he is obliged to do this week in response to the management committee 's request for his views on United 's complaint over Ferguson — and point out that being forced to go to such lengths to contain his opponent proves he was correct to covet the forward for his team . Ferguson , for his part , can now look any supporter of his club in the eye and say that Gough having to commit the foul that debarred him from a Cup - tie verified the youngster 's ability to put an awkward pre - match situation out of his mind and play in a determined way that suggested his temperament was on the mend . Rangers , of course , have had to make do without Gough on numerous occasions this season because of injury and , while acknowledging that he is inspirational , they have not found the loss costly . For the first time this season , though , Rangers have gone two successive domestic matches without winning and in these times at Ibrox that is as close as it gets to a crisis .
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: yes)
Now Cindy 's saying to me , I can put it in . Mm . So if you if you 're having words with Chris if you can say Well I am . If you you know
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: yes)
I know I got it when I was doing things with the structure I 'd never be able to do again.’ ‘ Harvest Moon’ comes out the same week as the new Bob Dylan album . Like anyone who came of age during the ' 60s , Young owes an often acknowledged debt to Dylan , both as a songwriting influence and for showing how to turn questionable vocal talent into great singing . But it 's the difference between the wheezing , cracked , crumbling voice on ‘ Good As I Been To You’ and the supine , delicate wonderment of Young 's voice on ‘ Harvest Moon’which marks the astonishing chasm between the two albums . While Dylan 's is the voice of death , despair , loss , wrack and ruin , Young 's call , seemingly polished and matured over the years , speaks of hope , regeneration and humility , reaching a peak on the heartbreaking beauty of ‘ Such A Woman’ .
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: yes)
When we were drawn against both England and Holland , people were not so sure but after the European Championship finals , those fears have gone . ' Olsen hopes that Taylor does not go all the way with the long ball game and play big , powerful strikers like Brian Deane and David Hirst . He said : ' If England play the direct game , they will worry us . That 's not the kind of game we like to play against . ' We are very good at dealing with the technical sides like Italy .
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: yes)
It says that jobs to go at district offices include 64 at Colchester , and that some 50 posts will be axed at the company 's headquarters . Adrian Longden , NALGO 's district officer , said that although times were hard , the company had still made a profit of more than £ 1 billion in the last financial year . With staffing already cut to the bone , it was union members who would suffer the effects of these new redundancies , which would also be felt by the economy . British Gas Eastern spokesman Richard Dymond said of the move : ‘ It will not be 280 people going out of the gates . What we will be doing is not filling vacancies.’
Idiom: look the other way (used idiomatically: no)
Suddenly Clare 's baby was wearing jeans and a navy nylon anorak , and howling for tough boots like the village boys ' . Now five years old , he went to school in Warminster and was trying hard to adopt a Dorset accent , having been teased about the snob way he talked . Josh liked reading comics , watching TV ( especially Dr Who ) , and peeing in his bath when his mother was looking the other way . He loved soccer and could n't remember baseball ; neither could he remember California , except for a vague recollection of sunshine and a white house and what seemed an enormous swimming pool , although Clare laughed and told him it had really been quite small — for LA . When Josh had scraped the plates and gone to ‘ tea - tray’ down the hill , David produced another tray with coffee , Clare 's own homemade croissants , and strawberry jam .
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
Pundits are now beginning to wonder whether Japanese chip makers may be preparing to ‘ leap a generation’ . Hitachi , Fujitsu , Toshiba , Mitsubishi Electric and Matsushita hurried out experimental 64-megabit models for last week 's ‘ Silicon Olympics’(the annual conference in San Francisco where chip designers show off their latest inventions ) . For semiconductor makers not already committed to building 16-megabit production lines , the case for going straight for the 64-megabit device looks increasingly attractive . Fujitsu recently showed that 64-megabit DRAMs could be made using fairly conventional lithographic equipment , based on ultra - violet light rather than exotic lasers or X - rays . In January Fujitsu announced that it will spend ¥ 100 billion ( $ 770 m ) next year getting its plant in Miyazaki prefecture ready for making 64-megabit chips .
Idiom: kick up a fuss (used idiomatically: yes)
In York it was particularly hideous to have lorries and cars vying for space with bicycles and people in the narrow streets . Since vehicles have been banned for most of the waking day local shoppers and visitors can enjoy a pleasant lead - free atmosphere without fear of being pinned to a wall . Yet when pedestrianisation was first announced the city 's shopkeepers , taxi drivers and disabled groups kicked up a fuss . Their fears have proved largely unfounded . Taxi drivers still complain a bit , as they do , but parking facilities were made available for the disabled .
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
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Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Though I 'm sometimes so conscious of lack of technique , it 's also quite exciting to find a way of expressing what you see in a person in lines . And it 's such a triumph when you capture it.’ Last year at the RSC , she said , she 'd gone all the way through the season and had worked so hard that she had forgotten about drawing . ‘ Suddenly one evening , I started on one of Owen Teale , who plays Hotspur.’ She explained her striking sketch of Teale .
Idiom: wide of the mark (used idiomatically: yes)
He found it in the fact that the State , ‘ united for once in spirit’ and ‘ with the fervent consent of the people of every land subject to the rule of our King’had entered on an arduous conflict , not for territory or glory but ‘ for the sake of enforcing the plainest rules of international justice and the plainest dictates of common humanity’ . From this event Dicey detected a ‘ good omen for the happy development of popular government’ . Here again Dicey seems wide of the mark . Not only did the First World War produce a major crisis of authority for the old order , but it also resulted in the harnessing by the State , on an unprecedented scale , of the power and resources of the nation towards the war effort . This experience was not lost on socialists .
Idiom: in the bag (used idiomatically: yes)
It was called silage and to the careful Orkney farmer it seemed all too good to be true . However a few were experimenting with this newest innovation and looking around the Orkney countryside today well there 's hardly a farm that does n't have a covered silage pit or a grain silo and today the fields are full of barley and oilseed rape and a field of turnips is something of a rare sight these days . The only horrible memory of the nineteen fifties that even today makes me wince was that teaspoonful of cod liver oil followed by the concentrated orange juice that was spooned on us before leaving for the school in the morning and off you went with your flask of tea and your sandwiches in your school bag . School meals were only to begin some four years later . At break time we would all troop down to the village shop for a bottle of Garden 's lemonade of a bag of what was all the rage in those days , potato crisps .
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: no)
What 's a realistic price for a tank like this ? Between £ 40 and £ 60 , plus of course that often forgotten cost in petrol to fetch it or choose it . A sizeable chunk of the costs gone straight away . The first saving comes by painting the back of the tank with whatever you 've got to hand . Black is the usual choice , but a stippled grey / black / green or brown / green / black dabbed on with a sponge gives an interesting effect .
Idiom: follow in someone's footsteps (used idiomatically: yes)
I was in Kardamíli in the Mani . A year ago the name Mani meant nothing to me . Then I read Patrick Leigh Fermor 's classic and felt an overriding desire to follow in his footsteps . The Blue Guide too was encouraging : ‘ The predominantly mountainous region south of Sparta is seldom visited by foreign tourists … superb scenery and unexpected traces of the past.’ How much had the Mani changed since Leigh Fermor , that most distinguished of scholar gypsies , explored it in the late 1950s ?
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
Once it reaches its zenith you can neither see , hear nor stand . If the dry desert storm rises in the day and you are inside , protected by walls of concrete and windows framed in steel , you watch as the sun changes white to red and slowly fades into nothing . Distant walls disappear in a fog of dust as dense to the eye as the black fogs of old London . Slowly you realise your house is drowning in dust . The concrete and steel begin to leak .
Idiom: in the final analysis (used idiomatically: yes)
Wolfgang Fischer : One has to distinguish between general and specific reasons . In general , the margin between running costs and profit in the current two - year recession has become increasingly narrow . In particular , it is the cost of the very expensive contemporary exhibition programme that has forced us to admit that we are , in the final analysis , running this as a public service . Specifically , I would like to point out that we are using the option of a ‘ break clause’ in our lease which can only be utilised until May 1992 . Negotiations with the landlords regarding a reduction of their rent demand of £ 100,000 per annum have been unsuccessful , and had we not used this break clause we would have been committed to the new conditions of the lease way into the twenty - first century .
Idiom: make the grade (used idiomatically: yes)
Sid explains : ‘ At times he was really down in the dumps . He 'd complain that all the work he was doing did n't seem to be making him any bigger.’ His fears of not making the grade evaporated when ITV talent scouts spotted him wrestling on the amateur circuit . At 15 , Davey was suddenly thrown into the lion 's den on the Saturday afternoon programme with such home - grown greats as Mick McManus , Jackie Pallo , Big Daddy and Les Kellett . But the lad did n't let the new - found fame go to his head .
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: no)
As he slowly undressed in his room , he heard her come snivelling up the stairs . Then his father had come in . ' Son , I want to have a word with you about this man in the pictures , so that you 'll know what to do in future . Get into bed now , or you 'll catch cold . Never mind about your prayers — you can say them in bed .
Idiom: slippery slope (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Oh — better make it Martini . I 've already had one telling - off from Dad today for drinking Scotch . If he finds me at it again he 'll be convinced I 'm on the slippery slope.’ ‘ Right.’ He poured it for her and watched with one eyebrow raised as she gulped at it .
Idiom: hit home (used idiomatically: yes)
The royal couple returned to Britain looking fit , tanned and very much in love and flew to join the Queen and the rest of the royal family on the Balmoral estate . But the Highland mists did little to soothe Diana 's troubled spirit . Indeed when they arrived at Balmoral , where they stayed from August to late October , the full impact of life as Princess of Wales began to hit home . She had believed , like many others in the royal family , that her fame would be transitory , her star soon fading following the wedding . Everyone , even newspaper editors , were caught unawares by the Princess Diana phenomenon .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: no)
Do you ever cover more than one previous life in a single session ? I can not speak for other hypnotherapists , but for myself I do not think it is a good idea . It is not simply the information brought to the fore during the session itself which is significant , but also anything which may come to the patient 's mind between the end of that consultation and the beginning of the next . This might happen because he chooses to listen to the recording of the regression , or it might arise spontaneously . In either event , I believe that it could only cause confusion if we were dealing with more than one previous life at a time .
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: yes)
This possibility will seem unacceptable only to critics who insist that election must be by votes cast directly and personally for the successful candidate . West German electors recognize the propriety of indirect election justified by votes given to parties , and might well be surprised that political figures as eminent as Shirley Williams , Roy Jenkins and Enoch Powell could be excluded from the House of Commons simply by the say - so of voters in Cambridge , Glasgow Hillhead and Down South . That list candidates will be staunch party members goes without saying . The rebel will have to try to win a constituency seat . But loyalty need not imply unquestioning conformity , and the West German parties comprehend as many varieties of political stance as do the British .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
Some people booed . He repeated the act ( the greenkeeper would probably say it was vandalism ) at the 14th green . It mattered not that Kite was beaten by Suzuki and Strange by Ozaki for the Americans already had an unassailable 3 ½ points on the board . ‘ I really enjoyed it , ’ Calcavecchia said , yawning in mid-sentence . ‘ I knew I was going to be tough to beat this week .
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
The first was the Norton image , a unique mixture of stomach - churning speed and British style . Its styling was redolent of the golden age of motorcycling , from the long - legged , leather - and - chrome look of the bike to the distinctive swirling ‘ N’ of the Norton logo ( still to be seen on the belt buckle of many a fashionable waist ) . The jet - black F1 , with its giant chrome tailpipes , brought back that classic look with a vengeance . Norton 's other trump card was more recherché . For two decades , the brilliant engineer David Garside has worked at Norton 's Shenstone factory perfecting his design of a rotary engine .
Idiom: small beer (used idiomatically: yes)
In Rex 's terms that means the malt and hops are organic and finings have not been used in the production ; not that finings affect the organic status of the brew , but Rex objects on vegetarian grounds . Most of his organic beers are brewed in the UK including Scottish Golden Promise from Edinburgh 's Caledonian Brewery , Clifton Dark Ale , Hartcliffe Bitter and Saxon Ale flavoured with borage and honey from Ross in Bristol , and Bottle Green Organic Porter . ‘ I 'd like to help the small beer producers of Britain more , I 've made a start with cider — I 'm stocking Dunkerton 's cider from Herefordshire ; Ivor really is a man after my own heart , full organic status from the Soil Association.’ But the bulk of his beers come from Belgium , where some of Rex 's happiest moments have been passed in breweries , sometimes following in the footsteps of Michael Jackson , who has graced the Cook 's Delight annual beer tasting . ‘ De Dolle Brewery in Essen is one of my favourites .