Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
Big barbel though , have a distinct preference for swims that combine three factors : a fairly slack piece of water adjacent to a fast run , and especially where these two preside over a dense weedbed or some other kind of refuge such as a hole , steep ledge or sunken tree . The barbel will not be far away from the snag , and the closer you can fish to it with safety the better your chances are of catching these big fish . There are times when barbel are so preoccupied with whatever business they have at hand , whether it be feeding , spawning , or just browsing , you can stand on the river 's edge right over the top of them and watch them without them taking fright and scurrying off . If you can get so close to barbel , with or without them knowing it , you should take the opportunity to study how they use the available cover to sneak under ; how they move like silent wraiths across the bottom , and how they rake over the gravel on the bottom with their barbules . It is interesting to note that when they do discover some titbit amongst the bottom debris , they very rarely charge off with it as they normally do when picking up our hookbaits .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: yes)
Are n't you lucky . All of those . Yes I have to carry them all over the place . No ? I had to get to them through the once you get to them
Idiom: think the world of (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Uncle John doted on him . He would buy Champ 's meal before his own . ‘ He did everything for that dog and thought the world of him . ‘ They went out for walks up to five times a day and he spoiled Champ rotten . ‘ There was real love there .
Idiom: by hook or by crook (used idiomatically: yes)
Russians are particularly outraged by Putin ’s arrogant treatment of the presidency as an office that can be “ loaned ” to allies – like the current incumbent , Dmitri Medvedev – and reclaimed whenever he wishes . But , despite the large protests in Moscow , Saint ~ Petersburg , and other cities , the authorities rejected demonstrators ’ demands to nullify the election results . Indeed , it is becoming increasingly clear that , by hook or by crook , Putin will spend six more years as Russia ’s ruler . What will another Putin presidency mean for Russia ? Securely fenced off from real political competition , Putin can not return to the Kremlin as “ the president of hope , ” as he styled himself in 2000 , at the beginning of his first term .
Idiom: go native (used idiomatically: yes)
There was this girl in a bath of asses milk , yuk ! and it had all turned to cheese , so they put her on the table with a dish of figs for afters . They all lie on their bellies to eat , it saves them falling down . Nero 's gone native . He thinks he 's Apollo and goes ravishing all over the place , all the girls are after him , his wife 's not very pleased . They 're not speaking now but he 's very good to her , she has her favourite mushroom omelettes at every meal .
Idiom: at loggerheads (used idiomatically: yes)
When farmers and farm workers refer to the ‘ loss of community’ in their village it is usually to this kind of change that they are implicitly referring , for there are bound to be changing patterns of sociability developing in the village to which they are unaccustomed or from which they feel excluded . This new element in the village population also tends to create new dimensions of social conflict to replace the rural class antagonisms of the occupational community . Farmers and farm workers find that they have common interests as ‘ locals’ which can be at loggerheads with those of the newcomers . From the farm workers ' point of view , farmers therefore become ‘ one of us’ to be counterposed to ‘ them’ , the rural immigrant population . As the recent experience of many English villages shows only too well , there are ample opportunities for conflict to arise between both farmers and farm workers on the one hand and the newcomers on the other .
Idiom: come to a head (used idiomatically: no)
PC. 1 . That 's true . There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . [ Name ] there used to be a architect and [ name ] has a degree in law . ’ And he says to her , ‘ What did you do before you joined the police ? ’ and she ran off .
Idiom: out of the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
STEELFACE KNEW how to get to City Hall . Susan suspected Daine was making it easy . He thought he could mindblast her as simply as he had put Tunney out of the picture . And , he was probably curious about her . She might n't be much , but in the self - awareness and independence stakes she was the only girl in town .
Idiom: slip through the net (used idiomatically: yes)
Many above ground filters make outrageous claims about the size of pond they can treat . You are putting the full volume of your pond through your filter every hour , but still have a water clarity problem . Clearly the single - celled algae are slipping through the net ( or foam ) . The practical answer is to fit a U.V. steriliser , an 8W model being sufficient . Siporax requires a much lower flow rate than yours , and is best suited to sitting in plant baskets in an upflow chamber .
Idiom: give and take (used idiomatically: no)
Diesel Units . The Sprinter DMU was one of BR 's greatest success stories of the 1980s — though there were severe setbacks from late deliveries , unreliability of one design , and a near-disastrous flirtation with cheap-to-build railbuses . The decision to press ahead with new builds on a large scale was based on Provincial 's conviction that it could reduce its losses if given the freedom to operate cost-effective diesel-mechanical rolling stock , allowing shorter but more frequent trains , than having to take on InterCity 's weary cast-off locos and hauled stock . Added to that was the desire to eradicate all vehicles with asbestos insulation by 1988 , a target not in fact achieved . The truism that you get what you pay for was ably demonstrated by the decision in 1981 to replace ageing first-generation DMU fleets on non-electrified outer suburban lines and remote branches with low-cost bus-type bodies on four-wheeled underframes .
Idiom: all along (used idiomatically: yes)
Katherine is shown to be all artifice , a Superbitch in the traditional Hollywood mould and here the Divine Sigourney steals the show . Melanie Griffith as Tess failed to impress me . She never seemed to completely shake the dumb blonde image , perhaps because her squeaky little girl voice operated to remind us all along that she was a Working Girl rather than Woman . Lorraine Gamman . CHOCOLATE Director : Clare Denis
Idiom: take the fall (used idiomatically: yes)
American actors in England should be given the same rights we 're given here . You ca n't do all plays there with strictly British actors . But how many of those blokes carrying signs outside Black Comedy can take the falls I do eight times a week ? After each show I want to come outside and hit those guys in the nose . The problem should be resolved by British and American unions over conference tables .
Idiom: in the can (used idiomatically: yes)
That feeling , I mean . The Bears in Yosemite Park are busy in the trash cans , grubbing for toothpaste but the weather on Mam Tor has buckled the road into Castleton .
Idiom: bear fruit (used idiomatically: yes)
I can put the Varsity match out of my mind now and concentrate on improving my international ambitions . ’ Those England ambitions are shared by Hopley 's direct opponent at Gloucester , 22-year-old Northampton three-quarter Nick Beal . Burst Beal 's sensational progress since joining the Midlanders from High Wycombe this year bore serious fruit with two tries for the South West last week . ‘ I used to be nervous before big games , but what has happened this year has given me increasing confidence , ’ said Beal . Hopley burst on to the scene with a dazzling Wasps debut against England captain Will Carling at Harlequins two seasons ago .
Idiom: laughing stock (used idiomatically: yes)
Unconcerned that it took him more than a year to prepare for , he points out the record wait for a first speech is 40 years and even Margaret Thatcher took 18 months before she made hers . A former television presenter who hit the headlines amid claims he was the Son of God has embarked on a lecture tour to set the record straight . David Icke insists he made no such claim , and blames the media for turning him into a laughing - stock . ROBIN POWELL / Avebury DAVID ICKE
Idiom: stake a claim (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr Jones , who was accompanied sub - officer James Gibson , said it took ten minutes to complete the rescue operation . Fire engines from Darlington and Middleton - in - Teesdale also attended the scene . HARRIET Harman yesterday staked a claim for Labour as the party for women whose needs she said had been ignored under 13 years of Conservative rule . Speaking to a Labour party rally in Darlington the shadow health secretary accused the Government of letting women down with inadequate child care , pay discrepancies between the sexes and an all - male Cabinet . The 300-strong crowd of party supporters warmly applauded her when she argued Labour 's policies would give a fair deal to women .
Idiom: lose face (used idiomatically: yes)
To forget the words in the middle of a chant would be most embarrassing . Quite a lot of fans , at one point or another , succeeded in starting off chants and songs , but few could do so consistently . To fail in such a venture , to sing out ‘ Give us an ‘ O ’ and get no response , is to lose face and effectively to be deterred from making a similar attempt in the future . To achieve this position a chant leader has to engage in a form of ‘ hazarding’ of a particularly subtle kind . One might expect that being a chant leader afforded a number of privileges within the group , but this in fact was not the case .
Idiom: sink or swim (used idiomatically: yes)
The real proof , however , is the fact that both systems are running live producing weekly newspapers . At the Poole Advertiser the original typewriters were simply removed overnight and the Macintosh network installed . A case of sink or swim . The system could not function properly without the presence of a file server on the network and the fact that Talbot were given the go ahead to use the AppleShare software gives some degree of indication how seriously the project was being taken . The server is actually a piece of software that runs on a Macintosh AppleTalk network and allows multiple users to access common information .
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: no)
Square on his feet , Jos looked as though he could hold off a steamroller . He threw with such power that Mungo half expected his darts to go through the board and stick in the wall . ‘ So you 've been up the barrow,’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . ‘ What was she doing taking you there?’ ‘ How do you mean?’
Idiom: when the chips are down (used idiomatically: yes)
Chips with everything ! To the football fans who have followed his exploits Nicholas is ‘ Champagne Charlie’ , the John Travolta of Scotland and the uncrowned king of the late licence . But when the chips are down and he 's feeling blue , Charlie sees himself as ‘ The Maryhill Hermit’ , a victim of his public image , and a man who would rather have a quiet night with the wife than a night out with the wild bunch . Will the real Charlie Nicholas please stand up ! Charlie was born and raised in Glasgow 's Maryhill , where the Jags hailed , the Mental Fleet sailed and the neighbourhood had an obsession with football .
Idiom: think twice (used idiomatically: yes)
I certainly was n't expecting a delivery of 1,000 pints . I could n't believe it when I went into the shop and saw hundreds of milk bottles scattered everywhere . ‘ I shall definitely think twice before I put up a sign like this again.’ David , of Newmarket , Suffolk , said : ‘ I careered up the kerb to avoid the car and went straight through Dennis 's shop front . ‘ I did n't even see the sign saying ‘ No Milk’.’
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: yes)
At any moment I expected one of the masters , placed at strategic intervals to stop a guy taking short cuts or lighting up a Havana cigar , to leap out from a place of concealment , brandishing The Times and bellowing , ‘ Come on , Britton ! Come along there!’ As I panted into Stranraer Gardens , following the no - hopers rule for cross - country —never run in a straight line — I was flailing my arms left and right and zigzagging at an angle of about ten degrees to the horizontal . Everything in Stranraer Gardens was as still as I had left it . The trees in the street were shamming dead .
Idiom: cross the Rubicon (used idiomatically: yes)
I straightened my shoulders , choked back a small tear for the loss of a good buddy and turned up the collar of my trenchcoat . ‘ OK,’ said I with more determination than a sybarite in a sacristy . ‘ Now 's the time to nail my colours to the mast , throw away the scabbard , buckle to , go the whole hog , cross the Rubicon , grab the bull by the horns , put my shoulder to the wheel and leave a note out for the milkman.’ I was n't looking for trouble . But if trouble came looking for me I was n't going to be hard to find .
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
The man who wrote the leaflet clearly thought vipers were just great . He made them sound like the Famous Five To put it in a nutshell , I think it would be fair to say they were seriously pissed off with us . What sort of place had we brought them to ? You could n't deny that the house was as sense - assaultingly beautiful as it was conceivable for an Umbrian villa to be .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
Long ago the the abbots of Cupar Angus , they came up to spend the summer m summer months at Dalvaine . And down by the water side it there 's a a sort of a ruin just you can see it and he said that was where they stayed , a little monastery there . And the abbots used to come up and then they would stay and have their meal in Kilray down at what they called the aiden or the tavern , and then they would walk over the hill of Kilray right up until they came to Dalvaine . And I suppose it was some of my great grandfathers or some of them , had the looking after of them . They had to see that they were provided with milk and butter and eggs and er venison and the rabbits and things for their food .
Idiom: fly the flag (used idiomatically: yes)
Does he not realize that the people of Ulster are quite passively tolerating Dublin rule and have been since the 15th of November 1985 . How blind are our so - called leaders and how blind are the people that follow them aimlessly up the garden path ? Are the people too blind to see that the Dublin government is telling us where we can and where we can not parade , where we can and where we can not fly the Ulster flag and that a foreign flag can fly on our soil ? Can the people not see that the Dublin government is waging a more destructive war against the UDR than the republican paramilitaries who they claim not to support . It is time for Ulsterfolk to open their eyes and see the Anglo Irish diktat for what it is , to rub from their eyes the scales of unionism and its false hopes and then at last with a new vision to see independence in its full light and potential as the only way forward for Ulster .
Idiom: turn the other cheek (used idiomatically: yes)
He he must be taught that and he 's taught that through his training . discipline . Does that yeah does th that mean that if he 's say h he 's taunted about his race he sh he should just turn the other cheek and have a stiff upper lip ? Yes . I do .
Idiom: for the hell of it (used idiomatically: yes)
Started in 1991 by Christine Latham of Chesterford in Essex , it now has 12 branches throughout the country , but aims to grow even bigger each year . Christine , 52 , decided to tell the world of her own experiences about two years ago , as much for therapeutic reasons as through a desire to reach those with similar horror stories to tell . ' Initially it was for the sheer hell of it , ' she said . ' There comes a point when you 've just got to face up to the private hell you go through every day . ' The idea was to start a volunteer counselling service for adult victims of incest and abuse , but the response to Christine 's appeal was so great that ICAIRR is now struggling to cope with the demands on its services .
Idiom: make the cut (used idiomatically: yes)
' Perhaps I need the kick up the backside . ' Everett made it through to the final Qualifying School last year where six rounds are played in successive days . But despite leading after the first round with a 71 he failed to make the four - round cut . This year he has endeavoured to compete in as many Challenge Tour events as he can . At the time of writing he had competed in four tournaments that had yielded just £ 1,200 .
Idiom: keep tabs on (used idiomatically: yes)
The place was full of Chinese sightseers , obviously many of them peasants from far away . We certainly felt , from all the staring faces that met us wherever we went , that many of them had n't seen any ‘ foreign friends’ before . Actually , we decided after a bit that there was nothing very sinister about Sun , but that he is just an auxiliary comrade who helps to keep tabs on us , makes sure we do n't get lost in the crowd , etc . For example , when we complained about our laundry not getting done at the hotel , and about our rooms not being done , it was Sun who went to the hotel and sorted things out . In so far as there is surveillance of us , we tend to feel it is largely intended for our own good , to avoid us getting into difficult situations , etc …
Idiom: with a view to (used idiomatically: yes)
Placement before custodianship with known relatives or friends . 5 Foster placement with strangers with a view to custodianship if all goes well . 6 Foster placement with a new family with a view to adoption if all goes well .
Idiom: in the short run (used idiomatically: yes)
This is the result supported by short - run time - series data . In conclusion , we can say that the ' permanent income ' hypothesis takes a long - term , wide measure of income as the main determinant of consumption . It proposes that the basic long - run relationship is proportional , yet predicts a non - proportional relationship in the short - run and for cross - section data . ' Relative income ' hypothesis The ' relative income ' hypothesis was proposed by the American economist J.S. Duesenberry in 1949 and this theory can also be used to explain the apparent conflict in income - consumption data .
Idiom: out and about (used idiomatically: yes)
But how do the team know that this is what their viewers want to see ? They asked ! In an unusual move , the production team went out and about asking questions before they committed anything to camera . They chose the teenagers and topics after group discussions at 26 schools in northern England , firstly speaking to children from the programme 's target age - range ( the 11 - 13s ) to find out what interested them then they met teenagers from the presenters ' target age range ( 1416 ) to find out more ideas for topics and to choose the reporters . For this latest run there are 10 young reporters , sometimes investigating in pairs , which allows for some of the ideas examined to be dramatised .
Idiom: the icing on the cake (used idiomatically: yes)
It is worth pausing to commemorate this remarkable event , and the effect the euro 's existence has had on the current global crisis . The euro was launched in January 1999 for a complex set of economic , financial , political , and historical reasons . It was the final icing on the cake of the plan by many post - World ~ War ~ II leaders , driven by the memory of two horrible world wars originating in and consuming Europe in the previous half - century , to forge closer economic and political ties . Ten years ago , there were real concerns about launching the new currency . Would people give up their old national currencies and use the new euro ?
Idiom: see the light (used idiomatically: no)
The difficulty here is the same as the one already encountered with the attempt to relate evoked potentials to conscious events . We only have the subjects ' external behavioural indicators ( verbal or non - verbal ) of their experiences and we have no way of validating these indicators . So we end up dissociating one piece of behaviour from another : in ‘ blindsight’ , the verbal response ‘ No , I did not see the light’ is dissociated from the ability to move the eyes towards the light . This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . There is an elegant circularity in trying to prove that behaviour can be dissociated from conscious awareness by using behaviour to indicate the absence of awareness .
Idiom: have it both ways (used idiomatically: yes)
In the article ‘ Illiterations’(1989a ; revised in 1991a:250–64 ) she demonstrates that the development of the Western conception of creativity in women and men is based on metaphors of reproduction which figure woman 's role as the material ‘ work’ of child - bearing , and the experience of men as spontaneous spurts of genius . But she points out that men have also appropriated the female role ( which is more active ) as a painless metaphor for their own artistic endeavours : For men have always had it both ways : the begetting and the travail ( the travail which , as ‘ work’ belongs to culture , but which as bearing and ‘ labour’belongs to nature ) ; the genius and the work ( the genius which is itself both passive possession and authoritative production ) , the penis and the womb . Man has in fact appropriated , to represent his relation to truth or God , both aspects of woman 's role in relation to man : the being made fecund and the travail . ( 1991a:256–7 ; italics in the original ) In Between , Thru , and Amalgamemnon Brooke - Rose reappropriates for women the role of one whose relation to language is both active and passive , that of the producer as well as the means of production .
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: yes)
These observations and facts come from an information pack about National Bike Week , recently published . Dear Bike Express , As one of the cyclists on the Spanish run in late August , I would like to say a heartfelt ' thank you ' to you and your organisation for the kind and efficient way in which the operation was handled . In particular , to the hosts Gail and Paul , who coped magnificently with our needs and requirements , and managed to produce food and drinks for us with very limited facilities . Also to the drivers , who not only drove with such care that the passengers were n't inconvenienced in any way , but also doubled as bike handlers to get the bikes on and off the trailer , inevitably a dirty job .