Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: fall short (used idiomatically: yes)
Because of the status philosophy has been awarded in sociology , the conception of the scientific method derived from philosophical ruminations has proved inhibiting to social research in a number of ways . For one , the hypothetico - deductive method has too often been accorded paragon status as the form which all social research should seek to adopt . Anything less than this is a measure of the extent to which the research falls short of scientific standards . But ( as we said before in another connection ) even much of natural scientific activity does not conform to this model , is not so much concerned with explanation but with taxonomy , for example , or with finding out how things work , looking for things , and so on . It is not that testing rigorously formulated theories from deduced hypotheses is never done , only that it is not the standard of scientificity .
Idiom: to say the least (used idiomatically: yes)
In a review of ‘ Seven Americans’ , a group show that Stieglitz organised at the Anderson Galleries in 1925 ( in which examples of O'Keeffe 's enlarged flower paintings were first seen ) , critic Margaret Breuning wrote : Georgia O'Keeffe ( sic ) , who exhibited very worthwhile things last year , shows a few good flower studies , notably a fine one of calla lilies , but the rest of her show might be termed a flop both in colour and design . She always paints well , but her colour is sickly in many instances here , and her choice of subjects not attractive ; to say the least , there was something decidedly unpleasant about them to me , they seemed clinical . 19 Breuning was not alone in noting the ‘ clinical’ character of O'Keeffe 's work at mid - decade .
Idiom: speak volumes (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ What do we do now?’ asks a mother in present - day Argentina with her life in tatters around her . ‘ If you 've got dough , there 's no punishment,’ declares her young son , languishing in prison without an austral . ‘ Everything 's more difficult these days,’ grumbles a bed - ridden pensioner in a Chilean film ; and although , as it happens , he is referring to that day 's crossword , the comment itself speaks volumes . These films do not make for easy viewing . Fat on a diet of ‘ Robocop’ and ‘ Rambo’ , Latin Americans may not jump at the chance to see them .
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
" Where 's my edition of the complete works of Schiller ? " " It 's just over there on the shelf . "
Idiom: heart and soul (used idiomatically: no)
( Speer , 1970 : 18 ; italics added ) Thus the visionary leader not only empowers his audience ; it also empowers him . On leaving Apple , Steve Jobs was described as ‘ its heart and soul’(Patterson , 1985 ) and Lévesque was seen as speaking for the little people of Quebec , the average French Canadians whom he loved . One final word about our analogy . The early Greek and Roman rhetoricians were particularly sensitive to the need for integrity among those who used the power of word and gesture ( Burke , 1950 ) .
Idiom: lock horns (used idiomatically: yes)
Schwab caters to US interest INVESTORS looking to invest in US - quoted companies can now use the services of the largest US discount execution - only stockbroking service , Charles Schwab . This week , the company opened its first European office in London to serve US expatriates and UK investors with an eye on the US market — locking horns in the process with its main American rival , Fidelity Brokerage , which set up shop in the UK four years ago . The main service on offer is the Schwab One International account which has been designed especially for international investors . This requires would - be clients to make an initial minimum deposit of $ 10,000 — £ 7,150 — pay an annual account maintenance charge of $ 100 , plus an additional $ 5 a month if the account falls below $ 5,000 ( which can be avoided by placing two commissionable trades a year ) .
Idiom: grind to a halt (used idiomatically: yes)
I prefer Beethoven , actually I 'm not sure I do prefer Beethoven , but had you said Bach I would have preferred that , but I do n't see that that I mean you 're implying that that makes me better , or at least makes me think I 'm better than somebody who likes Madonna , and that I do n't agree with . I like to think there 's a qualitative difference between Bach and Madonna . Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self - deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson’ . Now , you know , that is the sort of attitude we 've made this class thing . It 's grown up over the years erm in fact I do n't think it counts as much , nearly as much now , as it used to .
Idiom: carry the can (used idiomatically: no)
HE SAYS : ‘ Hanging on to your hair helps but I have n't got any of the old films on tape and it is just as well , ’ . ‘ I think they would be too painful for my ego to take . ’ Having got Columbus in the can — it opens on general release this Friday — Jim is still game for another Carry On . ‘ If you can spend five weeks having the time of your life and get paid at the end of it — why not ? ’ he asks . ‘ Besides , I 've got two more sons to marry off yet ! ’
Idiom: stand someone in good stead (used idiomatically: no)
‘ A year which would encompass elections with economic significance in both our main areas of investment and , as it turned out , a currency crisis of substantial proportions at home , did not necessarily augur well for our capital performance.’ About half Alliance 's portfolio is concentrated in the UK , with another 30-odd per cent in the US , and Mr Bolton pinpointed the strength of the dollar as the most significant contributor to the trust 's performance . ‘ As we had maintained our large weighting in overseas equities and cash throughout the period of UK membership of the ERM , this cautious perception of the political and economic risks being run has stood us in good stead.’ Funds within the trust 's PEP and savings scheme , managed by Alliance Trust Savings , now exceed £ 110 million . This activity has significantly increased the proportion of stock owned by private individuals , and has contributed to a narrowing of the discount between NAV and market capitalisation .
Idiom: break even (used idiomatically: no)
But managers of top clubs like Arsenal , Manchester United and Liverpool are unhappy their players will be forced to end a long , gruelling season with a tough tour . I understand several are ready to take on Taylor and attempt to stop some of their stars travelling on a trip where England will play a tournament against the USA , Brazil and Germany . Even though a proposed fourth game against Canada has been dropped — presumably as a gesture of appeasement — The tour runs from June 5-19 , deep into the summer break — and George Graham , Alex Ferguson , Graeme Souness and others believe their clubs should not be put at a disadvantage at the start of the following season . They feel their top players will return for the new season without sufficient rest — particularly as , immediately prior to the tour , England play two World Cup qualifiers in Poland ( May 29 ) and Norway ( June 2 ) . But Taylor will insist on independent medical evidence if any selected players are withdrawn .
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: yes)
' It feels good to do a film with a pace like ( snaps his fingers quickly ) after doing small films . ' Small films ? ' Yeah , small in feel like Stand By Me and 1969 ( out in May ) , sort of coming - of - age movies with a small , intimate feel to them . ' Perhaps Sutherland 's life is like a ' small'movie . Not for him the glitzy party animal networking of the Beverly Hills A - list .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
There are some pieces — the most notable is usually known as " On music and words " — which were apparently meant for the book and later rejected , but which fall within the scope of BT , and so have no bearing on the question . The same goes for Nietzsche 's very limited work on such topics as his " Homer 's Contest " , apparently begun in 1871 and quite unrelated to the material of BT , but arising out of his earlier philological studies . In the light of our discussion , it comes as no surprise to find another , abbreviated plan for " Socrates and Instinct " with a question mark against the heading " politics " which , of all the main headings , would seem the furthest removed from Greek drama . But whatever the real significance of the plan 's extra - dramatic aspects , they hardly square with any talk of a " scholar 's conscience " . Here , as elsewhere , heterodoxy was built into the whole conception , as Nietzsche intimated in the letter to Rohde : " I 'm afraid it wo n't look philological ; but who can go against his own nature ? "
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
It seems remarkable now , when Glen Shiel is so busy , that I had not seen a car nor a human being since leaving Tomdoun eighteen miles earlier … I could not find any accommodation at Shiel Bridge . Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . I was two hours too early for dinner and so spent the interval in a cloud of steam with my wet clothes draped around the fire . When they were no more than damp , I went down to dinner .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: yes)
Since it is a non - democracy , dislike of the incumbent swiftly turns into rejection of the state itself . So long as the army is loyal , the regime will survive . But Egypt 's lesson is this : the only alternative to repression or revolution is reform : genuine political reform that goes all the way . One day soon the Middle East will have to choose . Where are the jobs ?
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: no)
Shelley Cameron was n't cheap , and would n't have people saying so . Then suddenly his dark head appeared beside her , and he was swimming strongly beside her . ‘ Are you thinking of going all the way to Morocco?’ he asked , with his even white teeth shining as he smiled and dived down like a dolphin around her . She stopped swimming and trod water while she looked back . ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way.’
Idiom: head south (used idiomatically: yes)
The older part at the south end has a small harbour and pier and is especially charming , mature woodlands creating an Arcadia of delight . A no - through - road follows the coast of the northern headland of Gairloch for several miles , supplying small townships and crofts along the way . The A.832 now heads south up a wooded ravine , rising pleasantly to open country , the latter section of the climb being defaced by a huge water pipe coming down from a reservoir above : a black mark for the planners and water authorities . Above the trees , a road branches off to Badachro and Red Point . RED POINT
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
ON MAY 1st 1893 President Grover Cleveland gave a speech to 300,000 people on a stretch of parkland beside Lake Michigan . At noon , he pressed a gold and ivory button and the fun began : At one and the same instant the audience burst into a thundering shout ; the orchestra pealed forth the strains of the Hallelujah Chorus ; the wheels of the great Ellis engine in Machinery Hall commenced to revolve ; the electric fountains in the lagoon threw their torrents towards the sky ; a flood of water gushed from the McMonnies Lake and rolled back again into the basin ; the thunder of artillery came from the vessels in the lake ; the chimes in Manufacturers Hall and on the German building rang out a merry peal , and overhead , the flags at the top of the poles in front of the platform fell apart and revealed the gilded models of the ships in which Columbus first sailed to American shores . That contemporary account did not think to mention the 160 exhibition buildings connected by canals which were plied by gondolas and steam boats . The quatrocentennial Columbus exhibition cost a staggering $ 30 m : it drew more visitors than any previous event in history .
Idiom: man and boy (used idiomatically: yes)
On 25 May , 1812 , the Felling pit in Durham exploded , killing 92 men and boys . It was the worst mine explosion in 20 years and a culmination of a series of explosions caused by the owners , eagerness to bring out coal from the crept workings . The survivors , their friends and families , and the friends and families of the dead men and boys were outraged . In the words of J. H. H. Holmes , ‘ They turned the poignancy of their feelings into distrust and imputations upon the proprietors and overseers of the mines.’ Six weeks later , when the remaining bodies were brought out , militant miners , veterans of the 1819 miners strike had agitated successfully enough for Holmes to comment : ‘ Their great grief was disturbed by agitators and others to create distrust and confusion by acrimonious and malignant observation.’
Idiom: twist someone's arm (used idiomatically: yes)
He thrust the edge of a clipboard at me like a weapon . The other gyppo had come up by his shoulder . He was flexing and twisting his simian arms , as if limbering up for violence . ' D'jew wanna argue , muvverfuckah , ' he spat . I broke from them , and ran back up the slope to my mother 's house .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr Punshon said it should be remembered that membership was of the organisation not the club . William Guthrie , owner of the New Albert , said it was sad that the catering facility had not taken off . ‘ But those members of the group who joined the club are still very welcome to use the premises for a cup of tea or a sit down,’ he said . EFFORTS to get Cleveland scrapped and Yorkshire restored to its former boundaries are being stepped up with renewed efforts by white - rose enthusiasts . Members of the Campaign for Real Yorkshire were in Middlesbrough on Saturday gathering signatures on a petition .
Idiom: sweetness and light (used idiomatically: yes)
It was attended by several right - on Thatcherites , in and out of the government , expecting to be impressed by this darling of the American right ( although Bloom hotly denied being the Oliver North of the academy ) . They were not . Not because Bloom was liberal sweetness - and - light , but because he praised the good , the true and the beautiful in useless splendour and denounced relevance , accountability and the rest ; the very qualities these Thatcherites wer bullying British higher education to adopt . It was painfully clear that , although ' right ' and ' left'might have approximately equivalent political meanings on opposite sides of the Atlantic , their intellectual meanings were too fragile to survive the ocean passage . So Anderson 's thesis for all its fascination , is non - proven .
Idiom: in the pipeline (used idiomatically: yes)
They had to score Oh I know , you could see it coming though could n't you ? It was in the pipeline were n't it ? Serves them right , they do n't deserve to win , a load of rubbish You bloody get in
Idiom: on the hoof (used idiomatically: yes)
People could send telegrams , telephone each other , and transmit information much more quickly than ever before . Meeting an obligation to threaten , or to make peace , took much less time than before . Using cash and bank accounts to collect and disburse contributions for welfare , was easier than collecting animals on the hoof , grains or sugar in sacks , and it was much easier to transfer the payments . Arguments about the quality of particular animals in a payment scarcely arose when the payment was in a standardized currency : no one asked , ‘ Well now , which of these dinars do you promise me?’ If the costs were lower than before , so too were the risks : the police force was well informed because it had members who were also members of the local lineages ; and it was ready to intervene to prevent escalation of disputes into further bloodshed .
Idiom: turn the screw (used idiomatically: yes)
Slack line - out play presented Guisborough flanker Chris Pern with a try which Paul McLuskey converted , but Redcar replied in the 16th minute through flanker Graeme Evans . Guisborough went further ahead through a McLuskey penalty before Redcar full back Richard Forrest ran 70 yards for a superb try just before half time . Redcar 's forwards turned the screw in the second half and tries from hooker Phil Mohan and prop Phil Beal sealed the win . Bishop Auckland were disappointed with their 28–0 defeat by Gateshead Fell , bottom of North East Division One , two leagues above Bishops . Fell ran in seven tries but the scoreline could have been much greater as all the conversions and a penalty were missed .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
Each action plan leads to specific targets and each of these have its success criterion ( ‘ a form of school - generated performance indicator’ ) . Implementation of the plan and evaluation are so closely intertwined that the four - section cycle is redrawn to highlight the regular to - and - fro between the first ( ‘ sustain commitment’ ) and the second ( ‘ check progress’ ) which leads to ‘ overcome problems’ and then ‘ check successes’ . The final stage of the cycle , before reporting , is ‘ taking stock’ ; a relatively low - key affair , since much of the evaluation has taken place already . Interestingly , in the list of purposes of ‘ taking stock’ . ‘ assess the extent to which the school 's aims have been furthered’ takes second place to ‘ examine the success of the implementation of the plan’ .
Idiom: down and out (used idiomatically: no)
He landed on all fours . The pub stood back in silence . The burly barman , it might be he was once a footballer : he booted the man up and down and up and down and out into the street . ‘ It must be why they 've sawdust,’ Winnie observed . ‘ He 'll have a sore arse in the morning,’ Rab said .
Idiom: sour grapes (used idiomatically: no)
We may have drunk judgmentalism in our mother 's milk , or received a streak of meanness from our father . The Old Testament addresses this issue , quoting a piece of ancient near - eastern pop psychology : What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel : ‘ The fathers eat sour grapes , and the children 's teeth are set on edge’ ? As surely as I live , declares the Sovereign Lord , you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel . Redemption and grace stop the flow of cause - and - effect in our parenting .
Idiom: get the better of (used idiomatically: yes)
He even played in the club second fifteen as a prop in preference to being at lock for the first although , when the senior side was in relegation danger , he acceded to the club selectors ' request to revert to lock to help them to safety . Now his club 's tighthead , he has gone out of this way to improve his scrummaging technique with specialist advice from among others , his boss , Sandy Carmichael , the 50-times capped Scottish and Lions tighthead Iain Milne ( ‘ immensely helpful’ ) and Jim Telfer ( ‘ he is just the kind of coach I need because I can be a bit lazy and the fact that he just keeps at you all the time was very good for me’ ) . In the past two weeks he has had to scrummage against Scotland 's World Cup looseheads , David Sole and David Milne : ‘ They certainly got the better of me but I like to think that I am learning all the time and that that will lead to my improvement’ . The last six months have proved somewhat hectic for Watt and full of the unexpected . He was chosen for Scotland 's tour of North America in May , played in four of the six games , including the two non - cap Tests , and scored three tries : ‘ I was delighted to go but I never thought for a moment that I would make the Test side .
Idiom: sit on the fence (used idiomatically: yes)
She herself had campaigned for women 's rights with the suffragette movement when she was in her teens and he had listened to her tales of the marches and the abuse the women suffered at the hands of many people . ‘ I s'pose it 's all a question o ' roots,’ he said quietly . ‘ None of us can sit on the fence . It 's eivver the workers or the bosses . Point is , where do I stand ?
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: yes)
As there is probably a large number of variables that might be socially interesting , it is necessary to select a representative sub - sample of different types of variable in a well - motivated way , and to specify the range of potential linguistic variation that lexical items in these sets may undergo . The second point is crucial for the reason that if we include in the set items that can not undergo the variation in question , or items that undergo different patterns of linguistic variation , the quantitative results will be false . A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . It is for this reason that for the central part of the projects we selected representative variables that occur frequently and can therefore be quantified in terms of the full range of speaker - variables . The main variables for the inner - city research ( most of which were reported in J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1978 ) were therefore selected on the general principle that a large number of tokens must be identifiable in the data , and it is clear that this stark necessity must override any other consideration .
Idiom: run a mile (used idiomatically: no)
The USSR wishes to substitute gas for oil for its European satellites . Currently some 40 % of gas is imported , much of this from USSR , which is now planning to construct a further trans - continental gas line to supply Eastern Europe during the later 1980s . The pipeline would run 2,914 miles from the Yamal peninsula . The problem is to create the demand for the gas by the time the pipeline is completed . The USSR wishes its allies to invest in Soviet energy projects .
Idiom: heart to heart (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Come on in , darling,’ said the sharp little woman who was holding the door , screwing up her eyes shrewdly against the cigarette - smoke she was blowing out in order to speak . ‘ I 'm just making the great man 's supper . We can have a little heart - to - heart while we wait for him.’ ‘ Throw all those bedclothes off the chair and sit down , darling,’ said Mrs. Mounce , peeling potatoes at the sink . ‘ I 'm all right , thank you,’ said Tessa , standing with her hands behind her back , pretending she was examining Bob 's pictures .
Idiom: dead as a doornail (used idiomatically: yes)
And I 've been wanting to ask if they got a record o ' that at Pulham St Mary . The parson there , the chapel parson , he went there ; and it just lifted the roof off the chapel like that and killed him in the pulpit , blew in the wall . As dead as a doornail ! That was in 1895 . ‘ It took all the stacks up — tons and tons — and simply took 'em up like that off the ground and scattered them over the fields .