Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: part company (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's entirely up to him what we do but I shall be up for dinner you know and sort of see you and then if Geoff wants to leave early , we will . Well I think the only difference is I say to her I hope you 're still cos she said to me you can come , I said I 'm coming straight round yours christmas day , I 'm not coming home waiting for you to come back , you do n't come till half past ten ! I said and that 's if for me I said parting company if we go to dinner we stay together ! Yeah . The best of the cos she
Idiom: boys will be boys (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Isabelle , if you wo n't do me I 'm doing meself.’ Perry is sulking , thrusting the needle in her face . Isabelle shrugs amiably as though to say ‘ boys will be boys,’ and shoots Perry up easily in the top of his hand . Crilly hands me the tube . I take another puff , give Crilly a blowback , gaze happily about the room .
Idiom: save the day (used idiomatically: yes)
EDC machines reduce the workload 1000 ways to buy a business … or how Gardner Merchant 's managers saved the day On December 7 1992 , a great sigh of relief ran through Gardner Merchant 's offices around the world . That was the day that Rocco Forte FHCIMA announced the successful sale of Forte 's contract catering arm to a syndicate which included 1000 of the company 's management team .
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: no)
The first export shipment of Guinness — all 6½ barrels of it — left Dublin on a sailing vessel in 1769 , part of a regular shipping line bound for England . That first modest trickle would soon become a flood and Guinness , fuelled by its reputation and success in Ireland , would eventually need ships of its own solely for the purpose of handling Guinness exports . The Company 's barges were a much - loved feature on the Liffey as they plied the river with their cargo of goodness on the short run between Brewery and Port . Until 1961 hordes of the city 's small boys believed that the barrel - laden barges were bound for the Spanish Main or headed off to far exotic lands . From over the bridges and Liffey walls they cheeked the captains with cries of :
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm . For the lights . And right over the hill from North to South . Yeah . Was that lighting inside ?
Idiom: run riot (used idiomatically: yes)
Contrary to popular belief , rock journalists are n't only interested in backstage hospitality . But , for reasons that will become clear , the backstage facilities at Reading ' 88 attained a special importance . It was somewhere to hide and sob into your plastic glass of flat lager while all around , pondlife ran riot . Backstage was misery . Ageing HM clowns with bottle tans and painted on black jeans held court at the wretched bar surrounded by sagging , middle - aged groupies who 'd made themselves up whilst drunk , it appeared .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
The contrast between the two men was as profound as their rivalry was to become . Balboa was constructive in his approach to the Isthmus , generally compassionate to the Indians , inventive in his plans for exploration and the furthering of Imperial aims . ( He achieved a great feat of maritime engineering by building ships on the Atlantic shore , transporting them bodily over the hills he had explored and sailing them off into the Pacific . ) Dávila , however , was a bully , a cruel and insecure man whose constant attacks on the Indians succeeded in turning them from ‘ sheep’ , as Balboa called them , into ‘ fierce lyons’ . Eventually the contest between the new Governor and the man he had replaced became violent : Balboa and four of his colleagues , summoned from their Pacific base to discuss ‘ matters of common concern’ with Pedrarias , were instead arrested .
Idiom: jump to conclusions (used idiomatically: yes)
' You then looked round in shock to see him fall . At that moment Lesley - Jane saw your face — she told me you ' looked over your shoulder at her ' but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . Anyway , Lesley - Jane jumped to the conclusion that everyone else has since jumped to — that you shot Micky — and screamed . ' The murderer was meanwhile standing , shocked at what had happened , but still holding the gun . Rather than risk the danger of another shot , you followed your natural instinct to run .
Idiom: the plot thickens (used idiomatically: yes)
I 'm very upset . I 've never been treated like this before . ' The plot thickened as Malcolm Ferris , from the UK Pool Federation , a rival of Carter 's Q - Sport organisation , added : ' Carter sent the shop woman to me to get paid . I 've never even spoken to the man . This bloke will make pool a laughing stock . '
Idiom: in your dreams (used idiomatically: yes)
Still he would not hear . Father , Father , I called to you all my life ! Perhaps you never ever heard , so wrapped up were you in your own dreams and ambitions . Now for this last time , I beg you to attend to your poor Herbert . I know you have your own story .
Idiom: in stitches (used idiomatically: no)
She said something like ' I 've got brown shoes , and a blue coat , so I think I 'll have a red hat ' . It is any wonder I have no colour sense ? Again using Stitch World I have had some success with patterns in tuck stitch , with certain needles out of work . ( Numbers 284 and 288 are a couple . ) These have made very nice baby coats in white and one of them has actually sold !
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
The pair 's work is founded on the philosophy that ‘ Nature knows best’ , as US biologist Barry Commoner put it — pithily if controversially — in his seminal 1970 book on ecology , The Closing Circle . In it , he describes numerous man - made intrusions into the natural environment which have had disastrous side - effects , making the point that the connections within natural systems are often so complex , and the effects of changes so unpredictable , that it is wise to ensure the good imitative ‘ fit’ of any intervention . In the design of artificial ecosystems , also , imitation of nature is the best rule of thumb , the Shields believe . Their first project , the design of a wetland to treat household sewage from a hotel a few miles from Drumnadrochit and Loch Ness , exemplifies this belief . The system , located below the outfall from the hotel 's septic tank and apparently comprising no more than a marshy , plant - filled hollow , blends easily into the informal garden .
Idiom: into thin air (used idiomatically: yes)
The plot was two corpses gone before we caught sight of ourselves , stripped naked in the middle of nowhere and pouring ourselves down a bottomless well . ROS : Is that thirty - eight ? PLAYER:(Lost ) There we were — demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore , speaking as no man ever spoke , swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets , killing each other with wooden swords , hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance — and every gesture , every pose , vanishing into the thin unpopulated air . We ransomed our dignity to the clouds , and the uncomprehending birds listened . ( He rounds on them . )
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: yes)
… OSF PROMISES DCE PACKAGES IN MAY Meanwhile , OSF claims there are some 150 pilot sites up and running DCE and promises packaged DEC - based applications will be on show at its interoperability Challenge ‘ 93 exhibition in Boston this May ( UX No 404 ) . Meanwhile , the OSF/1 operating system , currently treading water whilst potential suppliers like DEC and HP work out their Unix strategies , will have 2,000 applications available for it by the end of the quarter , OSF claims . And like IBM Corp , Hitachi Ltd is now expected to endorse OSF/1 MK , the Carnegie - Mellon University Mach - based micro - kernel version of the OSF operating system .
Idiom: turn a blind eye (used idiomatically: yes)
Stories abounded of his drunkenness and adventures with women , including attempted rapes , even before he was legally an adult . Both his parents indulged him , particularly his mother . Whereas Nicolae preferred to turn a blind eye to his son 's misdemeanours , which were so unlike his own abstemious and dedicated youth , Elena seemed almost to prefer Nicu 's bad behaviour to Valentin 's modest and retiring example . Of course , younger sons often enjoy their mothers ' particular favour , but most do not have a mother like Elena to indulge them . Not all the stories about Nicu 's uncontrollable and violent lusts were true .
Idiom: make history (used idiomatically: yes)
Its corollary , whereby praxis becomes determining history , he called the ‘ practico - inert’ , by which he meant the material circumstances that have themselves been created by previous praxes and which form the conditions for new praxis . The individual is thus both totalizer and totalized , deftly uniting freedom with necessity . Though this neatly solves the problem of how man can make history while at the same time history makes him , it does not answer the larger question of how a multiplicity of the products of individual acts , ‘ totalizations’ , can themselves be totalized into the overall totalization required by the logic of dialectical rationality — rather than being the arbitrary , blind and self - cancelling movements of , say , Hardy 's immanent will . Sartre 's fundamental thesis , that ‘ History continually effects totalisations of totalisations’(I , 15 ) , does not in itself answer what Ronald Aronson has rightly characterized as the question for Sartre : ‘ how do separate , antagonistic actions yield a history ; how do individual totalizations lead to Totalization ( and also progress , the direction of history , its truth and its meaning)?’ For the whole basis of Sartre 's argument is that the dialectic of history is not a metaphysical law , ‘ some powerful unitary force revealing itself behind History like the will of God’ , but the continuously produced effect of individual conflicts ; each action is in its turn subsumed as a part of the whole in an ever broader , developing totalization ( I , 37 ) .
Idiom: take a shine to (used idiomatically: yes)
JOLLY hockey - sticks … it 's Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders all dolled up like a pair of overgrown schoolgirls for a St Trinians - style TV comedy . The pair will co - star in a new BBC 2 show , Absolutely Fabulous , written by Jennifer . And she warned that not all viewers will take a shine to their taste for booze , cocaine and bed - hopping . ‘ I suppose it 'll shock a lot of people,’ admitted Jennifer , 33 . But Beeb bosses are sure the jokes will be uniformly excellent .
Idiom: keep up appearances (used idiomatically: no)
SIR Alec Guinness is probably the world 's best known actor , yet he claims to be the only one who can walk down a street unrecognised . Yet despite his fame , despite the feeling that he is always in the public eye , he is making only his third TV appearance in a decade in A Foreign Field ( Sunday , BBC1 , 9.05pm ) . The screenplay for this film was written specially for Sir Alec by Roy Clarke , best known for his comedy series , Last of the Summer Wine and Keeping up Appearances . Nostalgic It brings together a remarkable cast including Lauren Bacall , Jeanne Moreau , Leo McKern ( Rumpole of the Bailey ) , and Geraldine Chaplin , daughter of Charlie , and is a nostalgic comedy about a group of British and American war veterans returning to the scene of the Normandy landings in World War II .
Idiom: walk of life (used idiomatically: yes)
PAUL HODKINSON : CURTIS ROBB : TELEVISION : Telly favourites from all walks of life were put forward from Jean Boht to Peter Sissons . But these three were the biggest switch on with readers . CRAIG CHARLES :
Idiom: bear fruit (used idiomatically: yes)
The passionate faith in the deep influence of the soil on man might at first sight appear to be an idea which a Marxist regime could easily harness to its own ideology , as was the Russian peasant 's deeply ingrained sense of co - operative toil on the land , a notion likewise derived from his dvoeverie . In accounts of religious opposition to the Bolsheviks , these possible points of convergence have always been overlooked . That they never bore fruit was due as much to Bolshevik neglect of them as to the eventual insistence from above on the abolition of the private farms . Another trait stemming from religious inspiration was the passive humility of the peasants . Quite apart from educational and other handicaps , this was one reason why they and even their social betters took so little part in government , leaving it so often to Balts or Germans before 1917 , and to other non - Russians after that date .
Idiom: for my money (used idiomatically: yes)
Pearce Crosby and still disappointing end to a promising move . It 's not a disappointing end to the game though is it Alan ? I think you know it 's hard you g got to go with Leicester at the moment because they 're in the pole position and I have for my money been the better side but er Forest do look capable of snatching an equalizer . They only have seven minutes in which to do so . Ormanroyd that 's a great header to win .
Idiom: come to a head (used idiomatically: yes)
As political conditions in China became increasingly chaotic in the decade after World War I Aglen found his responsibilities becoming not only more onerous , but also more difficult to carry out without coming into conflict with one or other of the Chinese factions making demands upon him as custodian of revenues of which he was in sole charge . He was appointed KBE in 1918 . His problems came to a head in 1927 when he was instructed by the Chinese government to collect surtaxes on foreign trade to which the treaty powers had not agreed , although the charges had been approved in principal during the Peking tariff conference of 1925–6 . Aglen refused to allow his officers to collect these duties until they had been formally approved . In consequence , despite protests from the Diplomatic Corps , the Chinese government dismissed him from his office on 31 January 1927 .
Idiom: grind to a halt (used idiomatically: yes)
The result , says the inventor , is that the wheel is permanently out of balance and forced to rotate . So it produces usable power for an electric generator , without any input . Unfortunately , as with all other perpetual motion machines , it will grind to a halt because of friction in the moving parts . The inventor will then find his very heavy investment in patent filing fees wasted . Smokey blues
Idiom: out of thin air (used idiomatically: yes)
That would have given me power over him . ) I have a firm belief in transcendental power , unlike poor Herbert . White Face materialized out of thin air when I was drinking at a pool . There on my hands and knees , by gosh ! I looked up — he was standing nearby , large as life .
Idiom: in one ear and out the other (used idiomatically: yes)
As a result , he has a social conscience which is way out of proportion , all based on guilt and of no practical use whatsoever.’ She paused and refilled her glass with wine before going on . ‘ He listens to me about as much as he listened to his mother — in one ear and out the other.’ ‘ Stephen 's determined to open a hotel chain and listens to me about the same amount.’ The two women smiled at each other , so different yet sharing a common bond .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
It is imperative that there is love between missionaries , for only then can God bless the work . Psalm 133 . Pray that the missionary might truly have God 's heart for those who do not know Jesus . Natural love itself will never stand the test when faced with rejection . Neither the missionary nor the message is wanted .
Idiom: out to lunch (used idiomatically: yes)
He wrote the part so that she could always support herself in exile if she did n't speak the language.’ ‘ Edward and I met in England in 1920,’ Emily said . ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . Asparagus is extremely difficult to eat without front teeth , because it means pulling the things through the side molars and it makes a mess of the lipstick . Those were the days when girls wore lipstick.’
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: yes)
you understand the process ? Yeah , yeah Take people to objections , take them to where you want them to be and bear in mind you 're always looking for an objection Yeah right , another thing , we wanna get more quotes , right
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: no)
It 's obvious that the people who buy and read the paper care as passionately about music ( and much else beyond ) as we do and are unwilling to let us , or anyone else , off the hook lightly . They , you , are our inspiration , the reason we 've come as far and done as well as we have , the energy that drives us forward into the future . And it 's to you , the readers , that we beg one week 's indulgence as we uncurl our lips , pat ourselves on that back and take you , in the next 46 pages , on a runaway rollercoaster ride through the stuff and nonsense , faces and fads , ecstatic highs and miserable lows that have littered 40 years of doing battle with the monster that is popular culture . Normal service will , we promise , be resumed next week . In the meantime , let 's rock ! …
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: yes)
Dinah rounded on him . ' You never think of me , do you ? It would not disturb you , would it , if I had to bear our child in this hole , among this dirt — I have hardly been able to keep clean over the time we 've lived here , with only a jug of cold water — and the unbearable food , and hardly enough light to see by when I have to read your script aloud to you in the evening , and then give you your pleasure in the bed every night with that woman listening through the wall ? You never think of anyone but yourself and your own cleverness , Paul Arkwright , do you ? If you wo n't come to stay at Mrs Gracie 's , I shall go alone , and find work of some kind to keep myself .
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
Not only has Iran developed its nuclear capabilities while a party to the NPT , the Israelis will say , but it also has put Israel 's destruction high on its agenda . Israel 's nuclear deterrence is its ultimate defense against an existential threat . Across - the - board nuclear equality can , in the end , only boost to Iran 's nuclear claims .
Idiom: miss the boat (used idiomatically: no)
Highly commended were : The robust Bateman European Cattle Weigh Crate ; the Matthews cattle lifting cradle ; Parmiter 's belt feeder attachment for its Shear Grab silage cutter ; the Ritchey Tagg Co 's calf and sheep holder ; and Ritchie ( Implements ) loader - mounted big round bale squeezer arms with cutter attachment . Full report and pictures next week . UK is missing ' eastern ' boat British machinery companies are not making a big enough effort to promote their products in the recently opened markets of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , according to an export consultant . John Colman runs a consultancy which specialises in marketing agricultural equipment throughout Europe .
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
The relations must be so chosen that the law of the transmission of light in vacuo is satisfied for one and the same ray of light ( and of ~ course for every ray ) with respect to K and K1 .
Idiom: down and out (used idiomatically: yes)
Orwell begins his book in the long and honourable tradition of popular journalism — you do n't stalk your readers , you shock them . He delivers the wretched data of life in an itinerants ' lodging house . It 's the worst you can imagine , down and out in Wigan . If the lodging house was the bottom line of men 's poverty then , what is women 's today ? No doubt an account of a hostel for the homeless would be audacious and arresting , but would it be an authentic scenario of life lived on the edge of ordinary extremity ?
Idiom: pull someone's leg (used idiomatically: yes)
Besides it was Colm they were talking about . ‘ That 's not true , I 've brought him up Irish.’ ‘ It 's all right , I 'm only pulling your leg.’ ‘ You can afford to.’ ‘ I have my own problems .
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: yes)
MON 9 OCT Steve Marriott & Mickey Hutton In among those on their way up , and those who will never go anywhere , the pub rock circuit plays host to those who were once really something . Marriott was the chirpy Cockney sparrer who lead The Small Faces , who performed that strange pigeon - toed shuffle on Top of the Pops and wrote ' Lazy Sunday Afternoon ' . Now he steps out on beer - stained carpets and decaying floor - boards , but the conviction remains as strong . Best of all he seems to enjoy himself . Not , in truth , a pub rock venue , but certainly a pub rock act .
Idiom: rough and tumble (used idiomatically: yes)
King Kenny 's brave brigade ALEC JOHNSON BLACKBURN boss Kenny Dalglish takes his expensive collection of stars to rough and tumble Wimbledon today , insisting : ‘ I ca n't wrap them up in cotton wool.’ His £ 3.3 million striker Alan Shearer is still battle - scarred from his recent trips to Spain and Highbury . But Dalglish said : ‘ Alan is a brave player and he can handle it .
Idiom: land of nod (used idiomatically: no)
If anyone slays Cain , vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold . ' And the Lord put a mark on Cain , lest any who came upon him should kill him . Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the Land of Nod , east of Eden . Genesis 4 : 8–16 Revised Standard version Conclusion
Idiom: place in the sun (used idiomatically: yes)
The direct harnessing of the sun 's energy — solar power — is , along with nuclear fusion , the renewable energy sector which has attracted the most interest . world 's total fossil fuel reserves . Solar energy is produced by the thermonuclear reactions which are constantly taking place in the sun which has a temperature of 20 million degrees centigrade . There are many ways in which solar energy may be directly exploited by man . The main disadvantage to direct use lies in the fact that supply reaches its maximum at the same time as demand is at its minimum .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
There was the barbed American joke that the acronym , SEAC ( the South - East Asian Command ) really stood for " Save England 's Asiatic Colonies . " Americans were not willing to die simply to restore the British Empire . Nevertheless the Foreign Office in London and British diplomats in Washington , unlike those directly involved in the running of the empire , were increasingly persuaded that the Americans might prove less impatient and dogmatic than their rhetoric suggested . In any case , as the permanent under - secretary in the Foreign Office philosophically remarked , if the Americans were asked to " underwrite the Empire , they would expect some say in its running " . In general the news from Washington by the first half of 1945 was moderately reassuring .