Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in tandem (used idiomatically: yes)
In contrast to hydrophobic interaction between RAP30 and RAP74 , binding of RAP30 to RNA polymerase II is likely to be electrostatic , easily dissociable at a salt concentration of 0.2–0.4 M ( 24,46 ) . RAP74 is also found to contain σ homology sequences as shown in Fig . 7 . N - terminal homology sequences correspond to regions 2.1 , 2.3 and 2.4 of E.coli . σ 70 , while the last two homologies are repeated in tandem and also overlap with the sequences homologous to region 4.1 . At the C - terminal sequences 400–425 , there is another sequence homologous to region 4.2 . Interestingly , these sequences are localized in the N - terminal domain essential for associating with RAP30 ( Fig . 3 ) or the C - terminal domain required for the transcription initiation activity of TFIIF ( Fig . 5B ) .
Idiom: see eye to eye (used idiomatically: no)
Each new morning ( whether through rain or mist As-it-is — forever-never fixed … ) And to see what sees the cloud through your eyes — Or my eyes — sees love , and sees love . The Northern Lights !
Idiom: hear things (used idiomatically: no)
MANIC DEPRESSION Periods of deep depression alternate with very excited behaviour ( mania ) . During a manic or ‘ high’ phase people are often very active , unable to sleep ; they may spend vast amounts of money and see or hear things others ca n't . They may be irritable or talk so much they become incoherent . While ‘ low’ or depressed they may feel overwhelmed by despair , guilt and feelings of unworthiness .
Idiom: cross my heart (used idiomatically: yes)
' It really has . You 're sure nothing to do with it ? ' ' Cross my heart . ' ' I 'm all for sharp manoeuvres , Gareth , but I like to be on the inside of them . ' ' Have n't I always kept you on the inside of them ? '
Idiom: pump iron (used idiomatically: yes)
There was Anne , in thigh - length leather boots , her ruffled shirt open to show a deep cleavage , a blood - greased cutlass in her hand , a rolling deck under her , warpaint on her face . Billy , a smoking Colt in his left hand , a toothy grin on his face , dwarfed by his oversized chaps , a battered hat on his long , ratty hair . And Bruno , sections of his undershirt cut away to emphasize his carefully - nurtured musculature — the result of long hours pumping iron , not expensive bio - implants — a cigar between his teeth , the flexible aluminium whip in his hand . The Bonneys were a dangerous breed . She found the rabbit , chewing on a stubby cactus , and stabbed it in the neck .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
But if you merely ask , " At what , exactly , is the gyroscope pointed ? " you are plunged headlong into one of physics ' deepest questions , one that led Einstein to develop his general theory of relativity – and that , even today , has no definitive answer . I know of no undergraduate textbook that acknowledges the question . On a more blatant , if less exalted , level , the force of friction makes its appearance in the first days of any first - year course . We declare , as if there can be no doubt , that friction impedes the motion between two bodies , and we invoke sophisticated microscopic models that show how the soles of running shoes bind to a track . Yet friction produces heat and thus an increase in entropy – which measures the amount of energy that can not be used to perform work – and it therefore distinguishes past from future .
Idiom: go to ground (used idiomatically: no)
( ' The best thing for being sad ' , Merlyn says in The Sword in the Stone , 1938 , ' is to learn something . ' ) It was during his Stowe years ( 1932–6 ) that White acquired his passion for hunting , shooting , and fishing . Two early novels ( Earth Stopped , 1934 , and Gone to Ground , 1935 ) , the satirical Burke 's Steerage ( 1938 ) , and England Have My Bones ( 1936 ) all have hunting and shooting themes . When he resigned from Stowe in 1936 in order to become a full - time writer , White spent some months in a cottage near the school experimenting with falconry , later describing the episode in his most successful book , The Goshawk ( 1951 ) . In 1938 White published The Sword in the Stone , the first instalment of what was to become an Arthurian tetralogy entitled The Once and Future King .
Idiom: lie low (used idiomatically: yes)
Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . ‘ British soldiers are the best in the world,’ a schoolmaster told his class , adding , for the benefit of the Kindertransporte pupils , ‘ You people did not think we had it in us.’ The natural tendency was to lie low : Probably the greatest difficulty for the RCM was in satisfying the needs of the older children , who had already achieved a sound basic education at home in Germany or Austria . By rights , as Dorothy Hardisty pointed out , these young people should have been destined for college or university .
Idiom: look on the bright side (used idiomatically: yes)
The child receives no interest from the parent and so starts to behave in a way to gain more attention regardless of the fact that it is negative and unpleasant . The maxim that ' negative attention is better than no attention at all ' seems to be an important governing factor in children 's behaviour . Looking on the bright side The first step in treatment is to help parents try to identify what are the good characteristics of their child . Some will say ' He 's cuddly and can be very sensitive at times ' or ' She is lovable some of the time and is good when we go out ' .
Idiom: play ball (used idiomatically: no)
Mine helped to lose a Test match . Even now I ca n't really believe it . I played down a ball from Merv Hughes . It bounced up and I turned to see the ball hovering above my stumps . It was not a situation I have ever contemplated encountering .
Idiom: thick and fast (used idiomatically: yes)
One device which was tried was to claim that the appeal was only an appeal against one of the king - duke 's officers , not against the king - duke himself . Furthermore , he had to counter the claim of the French crown to legislate for the duchy . This had begun in the late thirteenth century , and the edicts were falling thick and fast under Philip the Fair in the early fourteenth century . All that the king - duke had to do was to legislate in the same way — to try to anticipate French edicts , or to follow them immediately with his own . The nearest approach which was made to judicial independence was in 1289 , when Edward I enacted that the seneschal of Aquitaine was the principal seneschal set above all the sub - seneschals ( of the Agenais , Landes , Quercy , Limousin and so forth ) .
Idiom: out of the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
In such forms it seems but a short step from saying that the courts are also our only effective guardians against the evils of socialism . By the 1920s , the tone of constitutional debate had shifted from one of complacency and self - satisfaction about our matchless constitution to one of growing unease . In William Robson 's words , ‘ the complacent contrast between happy Englishmen free from droit administratif and unhappy Frenchmen subject to its terrors quietly faded out of the picture’ . It came to be replaced by the view that a ‘ new despotism’ was arising from the growing practice of vesting legislative and judicial powers in the Executive . And it is around this issue that the debate in the inter - war years was polarized .
Idiom: play ball (used idiomatically: yes)
which is a very nice city , where it 's all . Aha . So went to Andre 's and had lunch there and went on to , to a , play ball , then er , there was called , and my mother and I had What , . Marks .
Idiom: out of sight (used idiomatically: yes)
Marcus walked majestically to the door and flung it wide open , saying to Huw Pritchard : ' You will leave this room at once . You will not report for duty again until you have apologised for your insolence . Now get out of my sight . ' Huw nodded calmly . ' Right you are , gentlemen .
Idiom: to die for (used idiomatically: yes)
BIG , BEE - STUNG , firm and bouncy , pucker up and stick 'em out . Fat lips , suction - powered , sullen and sultry erupting at ninety degrees to the chin in huge , pneumatic Revlon - smeared skin cushions . Flesh folds to die for , convex cake - holes for budding Bardots — male and female — to puff and point in hot surrender or childish defiance . The bread and butter of pin - up prominence , the slobber - chops of gender blur , preaching petulance to the hungry masses . Sensual love - blimps , billowing out like hillocky , hummocky , water bottles of desire , bulging with hidden promise and a hint of , hmm , ignorance .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
‘ There — ere two ad suddenly there 's a third human being , a new spirit , whole , complete , unlike the handiwork of men … ’ . In this childbirth sequence the prose of an essentially devious and turbid writer clears like a tangled sky . It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it : ‘ Marie , ’ he cried , holding the child in his arms , ‘ the old nightmare is over — the shame ad the death things ! Let us work hard ad begin a new life , the three of us — yes , yes !
Idiom: ride shotgun (used idiomatically: yes)
In the front line COURTAULDS has been in the front line in war - ravaged Bosnia — after playing a similar role in the Gulf conflict . Paints supplied by Courtaulds Aerospace 's Shildon site in the UK coat the Warrior combat vehicles used by the United nations to ride shotgun for humanitarian aid convoys . The site began supplying GKN when Warriors were first built in 1986 and has an on - going contract . Two staff are dedicated to the business , visiting GKN regularly and maintaining paint stocks .
Idiom: from scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
A hastily put together collection of components booklets may indicate a hastily put together machine . And finally , it helps is you have the original disks for bundled software , such as DOS and Windows 3.1 . You 'll need these if anything goes tragically wrong with your motherboard or hard disk and you have to start again from scratch . BUYER 'S CHECKLIST Will the dealer let you look inside the machine ?
Idiom: in full swing (used idiomatically: yes)
More than ten thousand new age travellers and rave enthusiasts converged on the site of a disused quarry near the cotswold village of Lechlade ; many had been turned away from an aborted gathering at hungerford , swelling the numbers even more . Usually police find out in advance about the location of such events — but this time they were caught out . By the time they arrived the party was in full swing and all they could do was watch . Some villagers were angry at what they regarded as an invasion — others were worried about drugs . One cafe and clothesshop owner says he was forced to close down for the weekend .
Idiom: get a grip (used idiomatically: yes)
Like the Bombay Khojas.’ Robert wished people would not keep mentioning the Bombay Khojas . Just when you started to think you had finally got a grip on this thing they would throw in the Bombay Khojas and you were right back where you started . It was all very confusing . Just as he was beginning to adapt to the fact that there were Muslims — and that some of them were quite pleasant — it turned out that there were as many strains of Muslim as there were of the virus responsible for the common cold .
Idiom: pick up the pieces (used idiomatically: yes)
A downcast Souness was left to reflect on the opportunities lostsaid : ‘ I was feeling disappointed during the game at the prospect of only getting one point . ‘ I ca n't give any answers as to why we were beaten , but I felt we were turning the corner and starting to play the Liverpool way again . Now the players have to pick up the pieces.’ Midfielder Ronnie Whelan is expected to be out of action for another month following his latest injury setback , a thigh injury which required surgery . Rangers are given scent of success
Idiom: bush telegraph (used idiomatically: yes)
Elsewhere in the harbour the moored yachts , the power boats , launches and dinghies , regimented by the tide , matched colourful reflections in the water . Wycliffe was reminded of a busman 's holiday he had spent , not so long ago , across at St Mawes . Appraised by bush telegraph or E.S.P. of his advent , Divisional Chief Inspector Reed hurried along the wharf to greet him . ‘ A nasty business , sir .
Idiom: on the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
They would apply only to the privatised bus companies ; they would not apply to their competitors . There would , therefore , be the anomalous situation that half of the Scottish Bus Group would be subject to a statutory form of supervision which did not apply to the other half and that would be unsatisfactory . Mr. Robert Hughes : I think that the Minister intended some slight criticism of the new clause on the ground that it refers only to the companies covered by the Bill . If my memory serves me well , a broader new clause which was tabled in Standing Committee was ruled out of order on the ground that it was outwith the scope of the Bill . The Minister can not have it both ways .
Idiom: on cloud nine (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah but it 's so boring exercising . I have n't exercise like cos I have n't I have n't hardly I 've just er doing everything like , and I 've been working hard but Yeah but you 're on cloud nine . Yeah I am . And when I took those I did n't come down for a , and that frightened me , I said to Russell I will never ever take speed because it 's if , I was er we were in the pub right on a Sunday morning and I was there but I was n't there , I was somewhere else .
Idiom: cast your mind back (used idiomatically: yes)
It will have nothing to do with the lecture but simply to impress those that my vocabulary is very wide . Okay this er this lecture is called multiple government and the federal system and it flows directly from the last lecture when I started talking about the er the constitution and about the principles and the values that erm form the American system . And if you cast your minds way back to Tuesday you will remember that what I said was that the Americans were trying to create a system of limited government er and yet one which er protected the liberties of individuals not all individuals , not black individuals especially but of individuals , this was the rhetoric of the time and the main device that they invented to do this was something called the separation of powers and they argued that , where political power is concentrated , the potential for abuse is greater so that where executive and legislative powers are held in the same hands , as they are in our system of government , the , there is more prospect of government encroaching upon the rights of individuals . Okay ? Now I also said that the states which make up the United States were , for a brief period , independent entities themselves in the gap between the ending of revolutionary war and the framing of the constitution and so when their representatives assembled in Philadelphia in the summer of seventeen eighty seven , they were mindful of their independence and they were jealous of that independence , they wished to protect it against encroachment , they did n't wish to exchange one form of dominance for another .
Idiom: word of mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
When people take shorter breaks there is less build - up and excitement before and after the holiday , resulting in less disruption . According to Professor Cooper , this type of break is also more beneficial to employees as they can take time off when they need it most . A total of 40.7 % of respondents chose their last holiday on the basis that they had done the same before and enjoyed it ; 19.7 % went somewhere where they had always wanted to go ; and 17.9 % went on a word - of - mouth recommendation . European holidays , package holidays and short breaks in the UK are the most popular vacations with accountants . Skiing is enjoyed by 14.5 % .
Idiom: play hard to get (used idiomatically: yes)
Perhaps it was just someone pretending to be Viola for security reasons . She was polite but cool . If it was Viola , she was obviously playing hard to get . When he finally got her on the phone , she only asked him how he was then said she had to rush , and put the receiver down before he had time to tell her . Obviously he had to put it in a letter .
Idiom: rough and ready (used idiomatically: yes)
Accuracy of inputs is also crucial . The 1981 Census was estimated to have been under - counted by about half a per cent(around two hundred thousand people ) in England and Wales as a whole and by about two and a half per cent in Inner London ( about fifty five thousand people ) . The population estimates used in the GRE formulae include a rough and ready adjustment for this under - count , but other Census - based indicators are not adjusted ( e.g. single parent families and privately renting households , both of which are differentially under - counted ; see Britton and Birch , 1985 ) . Mid - year population estimates are derived through a continued and complicated updating procedure , with the most recent ( adjusted ) Census estimates of population as a base . Comparisons of the 1981 estimates ( derived using the 1971 Census as a starting point ) with the results from the 1981 Census showed some moderately large discrepancies .
Idiom: think twice (used idiomatically: yes)
However , before we could recommend our members to take industrial action we would have to hold a ballot.’ Darlington MP , Conservative Michael Fallon , said he would be pressing the Government for a change in the current financing system . But he added : ‘ I hope any profession would think twice before risking patients’ health care . ‘ However , I can fully appreciate the level of anger felt by the profession over these moves.’ A CAR salesman sold a vehicle under a false description , a court heard yesterday .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
Although copies of the sample test were leaked to the Belfast Telegraph immediately following its release , this newspaper in common with others can not print questions from it before June 14 . To do so would breach copyright laws . But parents throughout Northern Ireland have been campaigning for the new test to be revamped or at least postponed until pupils have had time to get to grips with the new format . Amid the protests to date , perhaps the most telling line has come from Newtownards woman Phyllis Bibby whose petition demanding urgent changes in the system had been meeting with a poor response . A lot of parents were refusing to sign she said , ‘ because they admitted they just did not understand the new selection procedure .
Idiom: head south (used idiomatically: yes)
AND CHANNEL YOUR HIDDEN ENERGIES ! ANNE GRAHAM / DAVID KERR HEAD south and banish those autumn blues with a trip to the seaside . The temperature may be lower than in the height of summer , but that 's compensated for by the peace and quiet you find out of season . Brave souls can still try a dip in the English Channel and there 's plenty of things to do if the weather does its worst .
Idiom: keep mum (used idiomatically: yes)
Constanza has added a scribble , ‘ We 've been running into a rather nasty situation . I keep telling Michel that nobody is in the slightest doubt that we 've run off together , but the fact seems to be that as long as there 's no actual proof , it ca n't hurt us . So , darling , keep mum about where we are . I know we can count on you . Let 's pray we shall be back before you have read ten thousand books.’
Idiom: only time will tell (used idiomatically: yes)
' Well , Constance , ' she said , ' I do n't know whether you 're right or wrong . It could be as marvellous as you think it will be or it could be a total disaster . Only time will tell . All I 'll say is that you must be honest and , if it 's wrong and this man is a mistake , you must have the courage to tell me . That is all I ask . '
Idiom: sour grapes (used idiomatically: yes)
She 's switched on the radio for the traffic update . ‘ Oh yes , they shall,’ whispers Anya into my mirror . ‘ The fathers have eaten sour grapes , and the children 's teeth shall be set on edge.’ ‘ You 've been stuck in too many cheap hotel rooms , Anya , with nothing better to read than that overrated family saga . Anyway , I thought you 'd given up the notion of revenge.’
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
At least , I do n't think so . But you saw what he did , did n't you ? ' He pulled a helpless face , took off his glasses , and wiped them on the tail of his shirt . Carrie said , ' See who 's coming , ' and he put them back on . Mrs Gotobed was walking towards them , leaning on Hepzibah 's arm .
Idiom: plain as a pikestaff (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes , to give him the chance to find the right one , the one that would stir him in such a way that he felt he could n't do without her . Some feeling like that which had attacked Jim Nesbitt last year and made him marry that girl in Durham , who , to his mind , had nothing going for her . Plain as a pikestaff , really , even prominent front teeth ; yet , he had been unbearable until he got her ; and now , as Jim himself said , he felt like a lame dog who had found a wonderful home . He thought it was a very strange simile , because he had never looked upon Jim as a lame dog , more like a gay dog . Then there was Arnold , Arnold Beaumont .
Idiom: cut loose (used idiomatically: yes)
The van has broken down . And by his career plan he should have been finished and out of here by now , instead of which he 's way over time on fixed - price job and his prospects of retirement at thirty - five are receding now even faster than they were before . It had once seemed like a reasonable strategy for a loner : live cheap , move around , invest everything and then cut loose while still young and really start to live . But it is n't working out . The money 's mostly there , but the spirit in him seems to have been leaking away .
Idiom: new blood (used idiomatically: yes)
Bauhaus ' ‘ Dark Entries’ remains a ferocious blue ( black ) print ; Danse Society 's ‘ We 're So Happy’is surprisingly epic and coolly resonant ; and mid-'80s music hall like X - Mal Deutschland , Sex Gang Children , Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend stands up to the test of time . If you like it then , natch . The state of goth — as catch - all historical movement for the too - ugly and the too - grim and as a modern phenom — is given little credence by UK Decay , the ridiculous Virgin Prunes , the talentless and misguided Christian Death , The Neff 's rubbish psychobilly and the new blood 's slavering adherence to the Sisters Of Mercy songbook ( eg Rosetta Stone , James Ray , Nosferatu ) . The Sisters , you 'll note , are not included herein . This is like releasing a skiffle compilation without Lonnie Donegan .
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
Others had to look after him : friends sometimes ; a Spanish couple he employed at others . He expressed his thanks obliquely , like saying ‘ Some magic fairy came in my room while I was asleep , and put a pile of clean shirts on the dresser’ . He was liable to forget to buy birthday or Christmas presents ( one year when he resolved to mark Christmas properly , he bought everyone gift vouchers because he could not decide what to get ) , but would make a gift out of the blue for no other reason than that it was a nice day . He wanted to share his joy — or his misery . Books were what he bought most assiduously .