Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: anything goes (used idiomatically: yes)
The evidence comes from a number of sources , for instance , the ex - head of reactor designer research at Harwell , Mr Denis Dorson , he on a number of occasions tried to institute a great number of changes into the reactors to make them safer . For instance , these reactors are the only ones in the country with power over one megawatt which do not have an independent shut - down system . They are one of the few reactors in the country which , if anything went wrong with the core in any way , could not be shut down . So , do you see as the real reason for the shut - down of Dido and Pluto really a win for the arguments long standing of the environmental lobby . er Not exactly of the environmental lobby .
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
Even so eccentric a character as D. V. Karakozov , who attempted to assassinate Alexander II in 1866 , had gained direct experience while serving as an assistant to one of the peace arbiters appointed to work out the details of the Emancipation settlement . From the 1880s thousands of activists began to establish direct contact with workers on the factory floor and acquired detailed knowledge of workers ' conditions and grievances . Similarly , the rank - and - file intelligentsia of the SR party were teachers and medical personnel whose working lives were spent in the villages . The revolutionary intelligentsia did draw extensively upon socialist currents of thought imported from the West and much of the factional in - fighting and abstruse philosophical controversy among émigrés bore little relation to developments within Russia . But it was only because much , too , bore very directly upon the most urgent domestic questions that it made an impact at home .
Idiom: round the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We do n't want Buzz ill as well,’ Miranda agreed . ‘ I 've telephoned Dr Montand at Saracen,’ Adam continued . ‘ He agrees that the best place for Elinor is an English nursing home where she can get round - the - clock medical care if necessary . In any case , Dr Craig - Dunlop is adamant that , for the moment , she must be under proper medical supervision for twenty - four hours a day , in case her condition deteriorates rapidly.’ Both sisters looked alarmed at the thought of possible further deterioration .
Idiom: on paper (used idiomatically: yes)
should they have to wait because but the , I , these people they are , they 've opted out of society , they want nothing to do They do n't , with society apart from the giro cheque on paper yeah well they do n't they want
Idiom: brownie point (used idiomatically: no)
Despite its alarmingly boring title , it has nothing to say at all about the Ford Administration : it starts off in the wholly recognisable Updike Couples - land of middle - aged infidelity in New England academia , before broadening into reflections on the way sexual liberation became virtually mandatory in the hot years of the late 1970s ( the Ford years ) . Its narrator 's confessional outpourings are given an ironic descant by his obsession with James Buchanan , the 15th President of the US . Brownie points will be scored by any reviewers who can claim to be familiar with Updike 's earlier work on the same man , in Buchanan Dying ( 1974 ) , provided they remember that it was , of course , a play . Scarcely will the shouting about Updike have died away before we 'll be getting Operation Shylock ( Cape , April , £ 15.99 , 0 224 03009 4 ) by Philip Roth . The Cape people excitably promise ' a spy story , a political thriller , a meditation on identity and a confession ' , but it 's a racing cert that it will be Roth nagging away at his Jewishness , his Roth - ness , his menagerie of doppelgangers , turning solipsism into style .
Idiom: rock bottom (used idiomatically: yes)
This changed with the advent of floating exchange rates in the early 1970s , which allowed more stability - conscious countries , such as Germany , to decouple from a US monetary policy that they considered too inflationary . But , even under floating exchange rates , the US retained an advantage : given that the dollar remained the key global reserve currency , the US could finance large external deficits at very favorable rates . Today , the US ~ Treasury can still borrow unlimited amounts at rock - bottom interest rates . Indeed , the interest rate on inflation - protected bonds has now become -0.5 % , even for a five year maturity ! The US government is thus essentially being paid in real terms to take investors ' money – a generous offer that it is accepting on a huge scale , in the hope that channeling these resources to American consumers will boost household spending and thus generate more jobs .
Idiom: hands down (used idiomatically: no)
The salerooms have not seen such a fine private collection sold since the great suite of sales at Sotheby 's in the 1970s ( the William Goodwin Renwick collection from America , arms released from the Saxon Royal Armouries at Dresden , and the smaller but comparable Gewehrkammer of the Counts von Giech ) . Christie 's are hoping that this will provide a much needed fillip to the subject . The majority of German castles had their own private armouries , handed down over generations , which contained sporting weapons for the use of the family , their retainers and their guests . Very few remain intact today , having been dispersed mainly between the wars . However , one pair of Italian wheel - lock pistols , now in a collection in America , is all that has been allowed to leave Schloss Dyck until now .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: no)
Erm for instance in the period eighty nine to ninety two , we were running at an annual average of about a hundred and seventy four conversions a year . However the average , seventy seven to ninety two , er gives you a figure of eighty five . Now given the nature of the coastal economy and what has happened to us in the last ten years or so , we have calculated our conversions through to two thousand and six on a reducing level . On the basis that a lot of the big houses that were doing holiday accommodation and so on , er have have already been converted and this is our experience , so on that basis we have taken a reduced figure for conversions and that is basically the reasoning behind it . Now er thereafter you say well why six ninety and not seven ten .
Idiom: all in a day's work (used idiomatically: yes)
' I 'll speak to you later . Of course I 'm all right . All in a day 's work . No , Mum , you ca n't talk to Jack , he 's busy . I 'll speak to Patrick tomorrow — no , Mum , I ca n't .
Idiom: follow suit (used idiomatically: yes)
But a year after that home - made PWL mini movie , featuring her hits , ‘ The Locomotion’ , ‘ I Should Be So Lucky’ , ‘ Got To Be Certain’ , and ‘ Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi’ , for her devotees to play in their homes , Kylie was really considering a major career move if everything went wrong . She was planning her crusade to become a Green politician . If not directly representing the official political party just yet , she was anxious to push her views and get her army of young fans to follow suit , and help save the planet . According to close friends , Green issues were beginning to take over her life in a very big way . Towards the end of 1989 film and TV scripts were flooding in at an unprecedented rate , spurred on by her successful debut live tour , the incredible success , even by her standards , of her second album ‘ Enjoy Yourself’ which entered the British LP charts at number one on its first day of release in October that year and the much - anticipated release of The Delinquents .
Idiom: hit the right note (used idiomatically: yes)
A Classical Education deals with Cobb 's time at Shrewsbury and Oxford . The focus for this second volume is his friendship with a boy called Edward who , while charming in many ways , proceeds to murder his mother . It is a bizarre tale , and Cobb makes it memorable by hitting just the right note of horror , amusement and disbelief . The Urban Survival Handbook by John Wiseman ( Harvill , £ 10.99 ) — John Wiseman 's follow - up to The SAS Survival Handbook is a paranoic 's charter , drawing the attention of the unwary to the dangers of everything from extension ladders to Japanese wisteria and providing useful hints on how to combat them . The old soldier is best on home ground and there are some vivid illustrations of what to do with muggers ' testicles .
Idiom: strike a chord (used idiomatically: yes)
Rick fancies Sharon from afar but neither has the confidence to make a move . The loutish Eddie meanwhile fancies his chances with ‘ Frigid’ Bridgit and makes a bet with his pals that he can score by the end of the evening . The moves , counter moves , rejections , romances and broken hearts are spun together effortlessly through the music and will strike a chord with any teenagers and ex - teenagers who have fallen in love on a Saturday night . It was written four years ago by Neil , Lea , John and Charlie Heather and is based on their teenage experiences . All four brothers were in a band together and began writing the musical while on the road in Africa and Europe .
Idiom: at your fingertips (used idiomatically: yes)
Because want to catch up with us and we 're already using too much energy . change your lifestyle . I just thought the more facts you 've got at your fingertips the more easy it is to persuade people . Yeah if we 've got some money we might as well spend it . Yeah .
Idiom: right up your street (used idiomatically: yes)
On top of the Alice Liddell , the floods swivelled and became searchlights , two broad beams shining up at the roof of the bay and on out into the dark gulf beyond . There were two black lines of metal there , two rails slanting up out of the hangar and disappearing in the darkness ‘ This will be right up your street,’ said Tabitha . In the darkness outside , something was moving . Everyone crowded into the cockpit and stared out through the viewport .
Idiom: with a will (used idiomatically: no)
When I spoke great tears fell from the eyes of the grey hound , more and more , heavier and heavier . And I knew in some sort , I think , that the animal was my brother , in this meek and helpless form . Then I was angry , and said he should never come into my house , nor come near me , with my good will . And he said that I had perceived correctly , that he might do nothing without my goodwill which he would strive to gain , if I would allow it . And I said , this should never be , and he must never hope for it .
Idiom: break ranks (used idiomatically: no)
The Church of England , which in its 1908 Lambeth Conference had condemned family planning , changed its mind when it was clear that the faithful were simply ignoring its precepts . Although the 1920 Lambeth Conference took a hard line ( not helped by Marie Stopes 's literary , erotic , and religious excesses ) , the ‘ safe period’ had been endorsed by 1913 . More and more Anglican bishops broke ranks before the next Lambeth Conference in 1930 , which emphasized motives rather than method and gave grudging acceptance to ‘ other methods’ than abstinence , noting that Church opposition was rooted in tradition not in Scripture . The Church of Rome , on the other hand , hardened its attitude against birth control . The refusal through contraception to reaffirm life during intercourse was — and is — regarded as a kind of Manichean heresy .
Idiom: pecking order (used idiomatically: yes)
But its success was quickly eclipsed by Ariel Liquid , produced by arch rival Procter & Gamble , according to Euromonitor 's Household Cleaning report . Since then the market has grown from £ 12 m to more than £ 230 m , according to industry estimates . Persil and Radion precede Wisk in the Lever pecking order , both in terms of sales and marketing intensity . According to industry estimates quoted by Euromonitor , Ariel took 25 per cent of the market in 1989 , Persil took 22 per cent and Wisk took seven per cent . The Direct Mail Information Service 's 1992 trends survey has found 82 per cent of customers are satisfied with the last transaction they made by direct mail , six per cent more than last year .
Idiom: hand to mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
Gee Bees OF ALL THE CLASSIC American aircraft , the products of the Granville Brothers must rank very near the top of the tree . Although they built a mere 30 or so aircraft between 1929 and the end of 1933 when they formally went out of business , their racing craft took most of the major air races in that time and broke the world speed record for landplanes on one occasion — no mean achievement for a team that worked from hand - to - mouth most of the time and had little formal education . Zantford Granny Granville was a motor mechanic who decided that he wanted to get into aviation , so offered to work as a mechanic at East Boston Airport in exchange for flying lessons . By the time he had got his licence he was rated as one of the best aircraft mechanics in the area .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Careful searching through old junk shops and around antique markets may well produce endless ideas and inspiration from which you can work . Victorian lockets look beautiful if they contain a tiny flower arrangement instead of a photograph , and if you are lucky enough to find a fob watch that no longer works you can transform it into a stunning and unusual frame for a miniature flower design . Even old brass curtain rings can be used as small circular frames , and I am sure that the more you look , the more the ideas that will come to mind . Achieving the right balance in both the size and quantity of flowers and foliage in a miniature picture is extremely important . For instance , if you choose fairly large material you will be limited in the amount you can use and the resulting picture may look rather dull .
Idiom: by dint of (used idiomatically: yes)
And he knew sapient pearwood when he saw it . He was seeing it now , and did n't quite believe it . An archmage , by dint of great effort and much expenditure of time , might eventually obtain a small staff made from the timber of the sapient peartree . It grew only on the sites of ancient magic . There were probably no more than two such staffs in all the cities of the circle sea .
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: no)
I have seen some battles , heard of many , but never of the first news of a defeat being brought by the General Officers before!’ Charles 's decisive victory at Prestonpans transformed his prospects . Already he was well enough off to pay his army , with 6d [ 2.5p]a day for the rank and file and 1s 0d [ 5p]for the gentry , and soon after Prestonpans a ship bringing money , arms and a French ambassador - cum - political - adviser arrived at Montrose , 62 miles [ 99 km]from Edinburgh , followed by two others carrying six field guns and a number of Irish officers . Even without French intervention , the situation in Scotland was serious enough . The initial tendency , on the part of both government and public , to assume that the Jacobite adventure would soon peter out , was replaced , as the news of the fall of Edinburgh and Cope 's defeat at Prestonpans sank in , by feelings of outrage and alarm , which were soon expressed in a fervent outburst of patriotism .
Idiom: call someone's bluff (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Oh , but I do . I 've never felt so well protected . Unless you 've been calling my bluff since day one , you should be able to see off any mere mortal who rubs us up the wrong way.’ ‘ Hey , Rainbow , what 's keeping you ? Are you actually having to go out and grow those blasted coffee beans?’
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: yes)
Wordsworth rewrote Guilt and Sorrow to conform to this teaching , and in Lyrical Ballads we are invited to contemplate The Dungeon and The Convict from a Godwinian viewpoint ; criminals are to be re - educated and placed in surroundings conducive to this end . Wordsworth soon became disillusioned with most of Godwin 's ideas . They did not seem to square with his experience of real people ; there was something inhuman about Godwin 's conclusion that ' the virtuous man , in proportion to his improvement , will be under the constant influence of fixed and invariable principles ' . Wordsworth 's tragedy , The Borderers , shows what happens when one trusts to reason rather than the feelings . For Godwin taught that one should ignore even the most obvious emotions , such as filial piety and gratitude : ' Gratitude — a principle which has so often been the theme of the moralist and the poet , is no part of either justice or virtue . '
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
By far the most spectacular was Shelter Stone Crag , a tapering white spire rising nearly 1000 feet immediately behind the bivouac . After a brew we walked to its foot and to our delight discovered that the covering on the lower slabs was not powder as we had suspected , but acres of perfect névé and climbable anywhere . After playing happily on it for a while we romped back to our sleeping bags and a meal , excited at the prospect of getting to grips next morning with the classic grade V , Sticil Face . The night was thoroughly miserable . It proved impossible to block the jets of spindrift which sought us with every gust of the noisily strengthening wind and settled on our Gore - Tex bivvy - bags , making them ineffective unless constantly shaken clear .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
he kep I was laying there and I was just dropping off to sleep , I was oh it was , and he , in h in he waltzes oh I , he , I , he goes what you doing in here ? I goes what the hell 's it look like , I 'm going to sleep ! He goes he goes you ca n't go to sleep , and he sat on the edge of my bed for about quarter of an hour . Your bed . What do you mean your bed ?
Idiom: in hot water (used idiomatically: yes)
Just picked up from teletext … UEFA have banned Eric Cantona from attending his own trial on charges of serious misconduct . The Frenchman landed himself in hot water after Manchester United 's European Cup exit in Galatasary . After being shown the red card as the players walked off he gave a TV interview allegedly slating some European referees , and now faces a possible ban from the game . UEFA said it was not their policy for players or club representatives to attend disciplinary meetings .
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Any shipbuilding orders feed through into other employment , apart from the main shipbuilders . Mr. Boscawen While my hon . Friend is considering replacement of the type 42 destroyers , will he bear in mind the urgent decision that he and his colleagues have to take very soon about the future of HMS Polar Circle as a replacement for HMS Endurance ? Some of us have recently seen that vessel .
Idiom: at a stretch (used idiomatically: no)
And beneath that exquisite , soft blue blanket his half - naked body was plainly outlined , inch by virile inch . ' Goodnight . ' He rolled over , and she was left staring at the daunting stretch of his broad back . Nervously she put down the hairbrush , turned out the side - lamp and slid into the cold sheets , fully expecting to sleep immediately . But she could n't forget the unnerving memory of Lucenzo 's powerful body .
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
I personally think Upton Park is a complete shit hole ( for standing anyway ) . What 's more , I got back home late , and missed most of the match on Sportsnight . Well pissed off ! ! ! ! , but at least we won:- ) Sunil BTW has n't the Norwich game been moved to Monday for SKY ?
Idiom: every trick in the book (used idiomatically: yes)
No doubt it 's also a tax dodge . But that 's not enough for Louis . The boat bearing his name and company logo has to win , and he 'll use every trick in the book to boost his chances.’ The waiter reappeared with the bottle of wine Nathan had ordered . Polly poured herself some water from the carafe on the table .
Idiom: take the cake (used idiomatically: yes)
He was shown into an over - furnished little sitting - room from which the light was almost excluded by two sets of curtains . A rich warm smell of baking came from the kitchen . ' I just this minute took my cakes out of the oven . I always bake of a Wednesday , just like my mother used to — two saffron cakes and a tray of buns they last us nicely through the week . ' She made a gesture of vigorous distaste .
Idiom: in the flesh (used idiomatically: yes)
By the time it has done this , the crab is safe . With the next moult it will have regrown its missing claw , although the new one is by no means as impressive as the original . Bees and wasps will leave their stings in the flesh of their enemies , employing a similarly aggressive form of self - mutilation . Unfortunately for them this act is final . Not only are they incapable of regrowing the stings , but they also can not live without them .
Idiom: burst someone's bubble (used idiomatically: yes)
Discussions are still ongoing . Unix System Labs is under the impression NCR , a fellow AT&T subsidiary , is going to opt for Destiny . We hate to burst their bubble but we hear it will be buying far more of Solaris - on - Intel . User demand could see it use Destiny in spots of course , or maybe the Destiny binary UnixWare , but there 's no love lost between Novell and NCR , which supports LanMan instead . Anyway NCR , is doing an awful lot with NT .
Idiom: all and sundry (used idiomatically: yes)
St Ives swore he distinctly heard the strains of Come Back to Sorrento as he came round the bend of the stairs . Who was supposed to be responsible for the university students ? Why had n't somebody checked that they had n't left their spears for all and sundry to trip over ? Bunny was so choked at what he termed veiled inferences and an unfair proportioning of blame that he stalked out of Rose 's office . He fled to the prop - room , where he found John Harbour and Babs , huddled whispering round the fire with Freddie Reynalde .
Idiom: ring off the hook (used idiomatically: yes)
So , with such an attractive product as the Rugby World Cup available , it was extremely important that TSL secure as large and widespread a viewing audience as possible . They failed on both counts . The phones began ringing off the hook at Rugby US a few months before the World Cup began , with callers wanting to know when and where they could see the matches on television . No - one in the United States Rugby Union had a clue about coverage and neither the union nor the magazine was ever sent a press release . After a dozen or so phone calls , we finally discovered that TSL had secured coverage on Sportschannel America , a national cable sports network which reaches approximately nine million households .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: no)
' Shall we see how it reacts to laser and plasma ? ' suggested Jaq . ' Oh yes , let 's slice it and fry it . ' Meh'Lindi sniffed the stale , hot , ferrous air like a fretful horse . The three headed along the catwalk , descended a rusty ladder on to the dunes of debris . They waded across till they reached a vantage point fifty metres short of the closest tentacle .
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
The Gateway of San Andres , Zamora . The city saw much conflict during El Cid 's campaigns , as the ebb and flow of conquest and recovery gave it first a Christian master and then a Moorish one . It may have changed hands as often as eight times in a period of twenty years . Sancho meanwhile had himself crowned king of Leon , and thus came to rule over the most extensive kingdom in the whole of Christian Spain . However , his success was to be short - lived .