Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: yes)
If that happens simply continue the locating technique , again establish the digging point and try again , using the identical technique . However , if the receiver continues to bleep in its working position on the ground , and no ferret has been located in the hole being dug , it can be advisable to turn the volume down to the lowest . Then hold the receiver in the hole to determine if your ferret is slightly to one side or the other . The Locator is worked in overlapping arcs to detect the precise whereabouts of the ferret . The ferret 's position has been determined and the dig gets under way .
Idiom: pull rank (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Cecil Parkinson,’ said Ms MacGregor , ‘ has not yet lost his touch.’ There had been some dispute among the BBC 's team of reporters as to who should interview Ms Wilikins . In the end , Naughtie pulled rank , and took on the task himself . Amaranth was still on a high . She had changed back into her blue suit in the ladies ' loo .
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
Rather strong on metaphor , mind you . No criticism — only a matter of taste . And so here you are — with a vengeance . That 's a figure of speech … isn't it ? Well let 's say we 've made up for it , for you may have no doubt whom to thank for your performance at the court .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: yes)
as if I could.’ ‘ In a fairy story one of them would ride up to the avenue here on a white horse and say they 'd been wanting you as part of their lives for years,’ Benny said . ‘ And in a fairy story I 'd tell him to get lost,’ Eve said , laughing . ‘ No , I would n't let you , you 'd say thank you very much , the fees are this price , and I 'd like a nice flat of my own with carpets going right up to the wall and no counting how much electric fire we use.’ Benny was gleeful .
Idiom: open the floodgates (used idiomatically: yes)
Or an annual one . Then , only six months since , he had received a letter ( ' Private and Strictly Confidential ' ) . Although sent to his 1947 address in Los Angela , it had finally , almost flukily , caught up with him — and thereby opened a floodgate of memories upon which the years had added their sentimental compound - interest . She had ( Betty confessed ) received his letter all that while ago ; still had it , in fact . But by that time she had married a car - worker from Cowley , was four months ' pregnant , and was eventually to become the mother of four lovely children — three girls and one boy .
Idiom: paper over the cracks (used idiomatically: yes)
Venus is also in the heart centre of your chart between February and June — a sign if ever there was of romance , or at least some heady company . It seems as if the time has come for you to bring this side of life to the fore , and even without your co - operation other people will persuade you that being independent does not mean being alone . Conversely , if you have been papering over the cracks of a relationship these same eclipses will seek them out . Remember this is a year of movement and growth . Break free from chains
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
The patrol commander had just finished briefing the police on the situation when one of the patrol shouted , ‘ There 's someone in the bank.’ The patrol gave cover as the police approached the building . Just at that moment a man staggered out of the door of the bank ; when he saw the tableau of police and soldiers in front of him , he threw his arms up in the air . The RUC sergeant went forward and arrested the man , who turned out to be the bank security guard who was rather the worse for drink , and had forgotten to lock the door ! The whole incident was over within an hour and the patrol was able to return to their base .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: no)
Hier ist kein warum … Disappointingly , my German fails to improve . I speak it , and appear to understand it , and give and take orders in it , but on some level it just is n't sinking in . My German is no more advanced than my Portuguese . I think it took a lot out of me learning colloquial English .
Idiom: get cracking (used idiomatically: no)
VEGETARIAN festive FLAVOURS It 's the party season , so Louise Pickford takes our favourite winter fruits and gets cracking with the nuts to produce a selection of Christmas canapés and two delicious dishes Nutty but nice Fresh nuts are at their best in late autumn and early winter , hence their association with Christmas .
Idiom: chew the fat (used idiomatically: yes)
Who put the light out ? Gerard Benson Chewing the fat before this meeting in that shit - hole of a place some berks will tiresomely insist on dignifying as a ' foyer ' — frenchified bloody nonsense — a parent quizzed me on my attitude towards the teaching of English . As I somewhat impatiently explained , we do n't actually teach English . If the little sods want to experiment , that 's fair enough ; we scatter a widely varied selection of ephemeral matter around the common room for them to browse over or deface — the Daily Express , Lancet , Exchange & Mart , Viz … that sort of thing .
Idiom: full marks (used idiomatically: yes)
Warrington teenager Valerie Morgan said the demonstration , organised by the Cornerstone Community , showed there was a real desire for peace in the province . The event was also attended by SDLP councillor Alex Attwood and Sinn Fein chairman Tom Hartley . Full marks for Norway ! IN Belfast Music Society 's long and distinguished history of concert promotion , no season has been more successful than the one which ended on Saturday night with a recital by the Grieg Trio . In the 150th anniversary year of Grieg 's birth , a work by the Norwegian composer , played by native artists , was interesting .
Idiom: down the drain (used idiomatically: yes)
My biggest disappointment is that we ended up playing ‘ route one ’ football in the last 20 minutes . We abandoned our principles . ‘ I 'm sure the fans will take this defeat more to heart than me , but it 's only three points down the drain . ‘ We are still four points clear at the top , so it 's not all doom and gloom , though I suppose there will be more people saying we 've gone again now . ‘ But it will be a good test of the players ' mettle .
Idiom: have kittens (used idiomatically: yes)
This image of the male owes its origin to the writings of the great historian Herodotus , following his visit to ancient Egypt two and a half thousand years ago . Amazed by the Egyptians ' devotion to their cat population , he felt inspired to comment on certain aspects of the behaviour of the felines . Among his observations is the following assessment of the sexual cunning of the tom - cat : ' As the females when they have kittened no longer seek the company of the males , these last , to obtain once more their companionship , practise a curious artifice . They seize the kittens , carry them off , and kill them ; but do not eat them afterwards . Upon this the females , being deprived of their young and longing to supply their place , seek the males once more , since they are particularly fond of their offspring . '
Idiom: turn a blind eye (used idiomatically: yes)
At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I was asked to contact you about the parking restrictions on Snowhill , Scorton outside St Mary and St James RC church . The yellow lines mean that during that part of the year when they apply — the summer months — people attending services are not allowed to park outside the church and presumably the restrictions would apply to hearses and wedding cars as well . The points were made that parking there can not be dangerous as it is permitted during part of the year , and that the authorities seem to have turned a blind eye to cars parked outside the church during services . Please could you look into this and reassess the need for parking restrictions on this particular section of the highway . Yours sincerely
Idiom: off the wall (used idiomatically: yes)
How well they remind us of the purpose for which the ark has been fetched ! No wonder its coming puts the fear of God into the Philistines ! The Israelite army greets it with the same great shout as bounced off the walls of Jericho and heralded their demolition . The Philistines ' camp is close enough for them to hear the noise , and when they learn its meaning they are afraid and say , ' A god has come into the camp . ' They are polytheists , of course , and to them the ark means only ' a god ' .
Idiom: out and about (used idiomatically: yes)
The last thing the Profitboss will do is stay in the office to administer the paperwork on these projects . His administrator will do at]that . He 'll be out and about , communicating with the likes of Gary and Tim to ensure that they understand how profitable their contributions are . TODAY 'S STEP Carefully examine your work - load and identify and question all elements of administration .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I bought it.’ Bob averted his eyes again . It was as embarrassing to see a friend under the influence of adrenalin when one had not lost one 's own temper as it was to see him under the influence of alcohol when one was sober . ‘ Bought it?’ queried Dyson , as if the word were some rare form of Sanskrit preterite . ‘ Sure.’
Idiom: bite the bullet (used idiomatically: yes)
Copies of the specifications can be obtained over the net : tudor ! udcsig-request@sun.com . HP TO PUT NEXTSTEP UP ON PA RISC Following the decision to licence Steve Job 's NextStep 486 object oriented operating system on its line of Intel Corp 80486 systems , Hewlett - Packard Co last week bit the bullet and said NextStep version 3.2 will be available on its Precision Architecture RISC - based HP Apollo 9000 series 700 of Unix workstations from the middle of next year . Talks between Job 's Next Computer Inc and HP date back to the beginning of the year ( UX No 416 ) , and the two are now teaming to offer a bundled range of Next software on HP systems , targeted at the financial services industry , under the name Object Enterprise . In addition , Next 's Portable Distributed Objects system for distributing applications across a network will allow NextStep objects to be deployed on HP - UX servers from the end of the year ; the company 's NetInfo network management software will be integrated with HP 's OpenView system management tools and will also be available on HP - UX servers from the fourth quarter of this year .
Idiom: hope against hope (used idiomatically: no)
In a series of dramatic and highly publicized meetings with Hitler , culminating at Munich on September 29th , Neville Chamberlain ensured that the effective destruction of Czech independence did not immediately precipitate a general European war . In the House of Commons , Labour called for a firm stand in alliance with France and the Soviet Union . But when war seemed most imminent they faltered , hoping against hope that Chamberlain would be able to find an acceptable way out . Even the Communist Party was momentarily shaken by the apparent imminence of war — was it possible that Chamberlain was going to fight Hitler after all?— but the errant comrades were quickly pulled back into line . The general public were frightened , relieved and ( many of them ) finally outraged by Chamberlain 's diplomacy .
Idiom: cast your mind back (used idiomatically: yes)
Needless to say , he was soon talking to God on the big white telephone but that did n't stop his band - mates from trying to drink seven pints of water in 30 minutes , followed by a dry Weetabix race upon which the Kinkies nearly choked to death , thus depriving the world of a hot new item . The evening ended , predictably enough , with police intervention and Kinky Machine 's tour manager having his collar felt rather severely . CAST YOUR minds back , readers , to the Reading Festival . Yes , we know it 's only a dim and distant memory now , but , hey , nostalgia 's all the rage , is n't it ? Here we see sensible ROY BOULTER and MAD KEITH from THE FARM arguing with MARK from EMF about who 's the most unfashionable .
Idiom: by the same token (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's right . And people have to have cars By the , by the same token , you know I mean I , I never went in a car when I was a child . I was going to say that everyo ebs absolutely everyone is against war but not many people actually joined the United Nations after the war for a very small subscription or not many groups of people have many members in it , and of course because there were so few members in it , they a they went one particular way which a lot of people that had joined did n't agree with and so they came out of it .
Idiom: drop a hint (used idiomatically: yes)
The most innocent people can receive them . ' ' All right then , I 'll watch out for Frances Needham - Burrell . I 'll drop hints if I can . It 's a bit tricky , though , Alan . I ca n't go clod - hopping through a bereavement . '
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: no)
For a large number of firms it also represents a substantial lost business opportunity . Because investment business is peripheral to their main activity ( and it is a condition of authorisation that it should not normally exceed 20 % of total fee income ) , many firms allow themselves to remain woefully ignorant of the regulations and of how to apply them within their own practice . The fact that a practitioner has a copy of the Blue Book ( which contains the Institute 's regulations and guidance notes on investment business ) on his shelf does not necessarily mean that he has read and understood it , and in some firms the Institute 's Investment Business Gazettes ( which announce changes to regulations and other requirements , and provide a general round - up of developments likely to affect authorised firms ) are filed away unread if they are kept at all . While it is fair to say that the regulations in the Blue Book are complex to read and interpret , the guidance notes are eminently readable and practical . Similarly , the Investment Business Gazettes offer concise and very useful supplementary information .
Idiom: in the pipeline (used idiomatically: no)
But he feels let - down and disappointed that all his years of effort in building trade in the Harrow , a city - centre pub , count for nothing . ‘ The company has changed in the last four to five years,’ John said . ‘ They must have known that leases were in the pipeline but no one said anything to me.’ Vital repairs have not been carried out . At present they are the responsibility of thr brewery but a future leaseholder will have to look after them .
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: no)
He offered Balcon 's Ealing Studios favourable distribution through his company 's domestic and foreign network , with ‘ independence as far as production was concerned’ together with a licence to go on producing low - budget British films . Balcon was sensible enough to forget his scruples and accept . Similarly , although Rank turned down Sydney Box 's first independent feature,29 Acacia Avenue ( 1945 ) , on the grounds that the innocuous story about an aborted premarital romp was ‘ immoral’ , and offered him £ 40,000 to put the film on the shelf , he was later to give Box the job of running Gainsborough 's production programme . In any case , by strengthening his position abroad , Rank had made himself unassailable at home . The ministers and officials at the Department of Trade to whom the Palache Report was submitted were less concerned about the inner workings of the film industry than with how to respond to Treasury demands that they work to secure foreign currency .
Idiom: kith and kin (used idiomatically: yes)
" There are some upon this earth of yours , " returned the Spirit , " who lay claim to know us , and who do their deeds of passion , pride , ill - will , hatred , envy , bigotry , and selfishness in our name , who are as strange to us and all out kith and kin , as if they had never lived .
Idiom: make the grade (used idiomatically: yes)
Rusch de Farges , an ex - French gelding , won two of his six races last season both in soft ground and put up his best effort when beaten three lengths by Barnbrook Again at levels in the Arlington Chase Final over two and a half miles at Cheltenham last January . He has some improving to do if he is to develop into a genuine Gold Cup hope but being only a six - year - old and trained by the man who has turned the joke ‘ the impossible we do at once , miracles take a little longer.’ into reality , he is quite likely to make the grade . The dry weather continues to affect racing and Oliver Sherwood will not run Tonights The Night in the A.F. Budge Chase . A decision on Cruising Altitude 's participation in the Bula Hurdle will be made after the trainer has spoken to the jockeys at today 's meeting .
Idiom: Hobson's choice (used idiomatically: no)
I am quite a pleader at times and this occasion surpassed all previous pleads imaginable . Pete had a roll of Ektachrome 200 and a Gold 100 print film . Hobson 's choice really , so I had both . After the photo session we ate and sunbathed naked , taking advantage of the amazing heat and the warm breeze that kept away the mozzies . Who will ever believe that I lay there , stripped naked , 1,000 metres up on top of a hill that is 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle ?
Idiom: in the final analysis (used idiomatically: yes)
Glimpse The Australians showed just one glimpse of the sort of electrifying back play that won them the World Cup so brilliantly just a year ago . And it brought them a great try that , in the final analysis , won them the match . Left - winger Darren Junee brilliantly slipped round his marker , James Reynolds , just before half - time and set off on a jinking run down the left wing . When it seemed he was running out of support , Jason Little suddenly appeared inside him to take the scoring pass .
Idiom: night and day (used idiomatically: no)
He stared at her ; and , minutely , his face changed . It was hardly more than a flicker in the eyes , but suddenly Ruth felt she glimpsed Adam again , her own brother , looking out at her desperately . She remembered he had n't stayed under the chains in Caer Wydyr a night and a day , as Fincara had meant . Maybe she still had a chance with him . She reached out and this time he let her grip his arm .
Idiom: bring the house down (used idiomatically: yes)
I was to perform two of Joyce 's pieces , the first being ‘ Committee’ , a deadly accurate re - creation of a Northern Ladies Choral Committee meeting convened to axe one of its founder members : ‘ Now , we do n't want any unpleasantness , friendly is what we are and friendly is how we mean to go on … but I think we all know there is one voice in the altos that did not ought to be there . And I think we all know to whom I am referring … ’ It came as near to cattiness as Grenfell could , and gently brought the house down . Reggie Grenfell was there for the recording . I 'm not alone in maintaining that he is the second sweetest man on earth .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: no)
OTHER DELIBERATE KILLING OF DOLPHINS THE GUNNING DOWN OF DOLPHINS IN THE BLACK SEA Dolphins have been hunted in the Black Sea since the late nineteenth century , when Russian fishermen sought them for their meat and oil . By the mid 1930s , up to a quarter of a million dolphins were being killed each year by Turkish , Bulgarian , Romanian , and Russian hunters . In 1964 , dolphin populations off the USSR 's area of the Black Sea collapsed , and by 1966 , the USSR , Bulgaria , and Romania had prohibited all dolphin hunting .
Idiom: part company (used idiomatically: yes)
Suddenly she swung round on her heels and left the hotel . She could n't stand the thought of being shut in her room waiting for Roman to return . Not that he would come to her — his manner ever since her remarks about finding a rich man had indicated quite clearly that the sooner they could part company , the better it would suit him . Alnwick had a relaxed air this evening that was a complete contrast to the bustle that prevailed during the day . Couples of all ages strolled leisurely along , stopping now and then to look in shop windows .
Idiom: tongue in cheek (used idiomatically: yes)
When things go wrong , he looks quietly disappointed . There are no tears , no recriminations , and if he has anything to say to his team afterwards , it 's the team he talks to , not the tabloids . When he does have something to say he does so politely , almost shyly , but with a touch of the tongue - in - cheek humour which made his father the darling of the fans in the Sixties and Seventies . Married , with two young children , Damon Hill comes across as a genuinely nice guy who keeps his family safely away from the limelight . He admits he enjoys a beer or two away from race weekends .
Idiom: in my book (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm . Oh I did n't know . Right , what we have here in my book ooh I 'll tell you in moment in your nineteen ninety one ! my nineteen ninety one edition right , there are er wing armchairs ah No , no , no , it 's not that , now let 's see , I 've something like yours , let me think .
Idiom: boots and all (used idiomatically: yes)
The nurses slept in the aforementioned wooden barracks , six to a room , which did not stop the yard commandant , a young fellow names Benes , from entering the room several nights a week , throwing himself boots and all into the bed of one of the internees , and having sex with her in front of all the others .
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: yes)
Using a two - stage rocket makes no difference . Gedanken 's rocket was already delivering all the power one could possibly imagine , and it still was n't enough . Once in a black hole , there is no way — but no way — of getting out . 14 .
Idiom: anything goes (used idiomatically: yes)
Sid Field asked whether dead ones were accepted and John Stanley sent in a Bob Dylan song , saying he was the only ‘ modern whose lyrics I coul get my hands on without going back to the Bard , and I thought that was n't what you wanted’ . And why not ? If James Comyn can send in Tennyson 's ‘ Come into the Polling Booth , Maud’ in support of Sinn Fein— sadly not a winner — then anything goes . Ten pounds to the winners , plus an extra fiver for Bill Greenwell and George Simmers . I 'm not sure about rhyming perestroika with balalaika , Chas Garvey , but I 'll let it pass .
Idiom: grease the wheels (used idiomatically: yes)
Unfortunately , we have heard leaders – especially from the US – claim before that they recognized the problem . In the run - up to the financial crisis , the US external deficit was soaking up almost 70 % of the excess funds saved by China , Japan , Germany , Russia , Saudi ~ Arabia , and all the countries with current - account surpluses combined . But , rather than taking significant action , the US continued to grease the wheels of its financial sector .
Idiom: make waves (used idiomatically: no)
The room was warm and inviting , like a gentleman 's club , the lounge bar in her local back in Perivale . It engendered immediate feelings of friendship , of belonging . For the first time since Heaven , Ace thought of Julian , and the times they had sat in worn green leather armchairs , the hum of traffic from the A40 outside making waves in their glasses , knowing that the barman thought they were underage but also knowing that Ace intimidated him so much that he would n't say anything . This room was like that : oak panelled , plushly carpeted , lined with portraits , slightly musty . The chandeliers floating near the ceiling were a touch ornate for her taste , but she liked the huge wooden table stacked up with what looked like real fruit .