Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: child's play (used idiomatically: no)
p/20/50 . The Craftworks gallery in Belfast 's Linenhall Street is currently staging an exhibition featuring products geared towards children . The display is entitled ' Child 's Play ' and showing off some of the exhibits are ( from left ) : Patricia Flanagan , acting chief executive , Craftworks ; Valerie Wherry , LEDU ; Katie O'Toole , of Katie Blue , Ormeau Avenue , and Freda Robinson , of Arabesque Braids , Knock . P/20/16 . Little Colin Patterson returned to the Jubilee Maternity Hospital with his mum Karen to celebrate his first birthday and to hand over a cheque for £ 675 to the neo natal unit , where he weighed in at only 2 lb 14ozs .
Idiom: in tandem (used idiomatically: yes)
And despite the valid excuses , Rangers still must find an extra dimension if they are to prosper in this competition . Although Mikhailichenko should have given them a 15th - minute lead , Marseille increasingly controlled the game . Richard Gough , struggling with a groin injury , found former German international striker Rudi Voeller an extremely tough proposition , particularly in tandem with Abedi Pele . Voeller might have scored in the 24th minute had it not been for Andy Goram 's fine save from a powerful 20-yard shot , but seven minutes later he set up Marseille 's opener . Capitalising on a slip by Gough , he pulled the ball back for 21-year - old Croatian striker Alen Boksic , who slid his shot well beyond Goram .
Idiom: come to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
For only when one is able to discriminate between what must be discarded and what still remains as valuable for the future will one also be able to decide whether one is ready to strike out in the new direction consciously and positively . With benefit of the ‘ hindsight - ometer’ , it can be argued that my own movement into a structural limbo contained aspects of the unconscious journey towards a new self - knowledge , when the old values were able to be adjusted if not discarded ; so that it was possible to break through the constraints imposed by the inculcated patterns of police culture , albeit in something of an unprogrammatic and fragmented manner . Through the daily use of our special knowledge of the counter - culture , we were forced to acknowledge and come to grips with many of the complex social factors surrounding some drug use , which a legal framework could never adequately encompass . We now had to grapple with problems of ethics , with questions of morality and of personal philosophy , as we tried to draw a simple police code of practice together to frame those new deviancies created in the 1960s by the Acts of Parliament relating to drug use . Furthermore , the reading I did for the lectures I was called to give as a ‘ drugs expert’ generated queries about such ambiguous areas as victimless crimes and interference in private acts , and altogether raised more questions than were solved .
Idiom: in the can (used idiomatically: yes)
In the spray perpetual rainbows are fixed in position as though their unseen feet were nailed to the base of the cleft . Tony and I were alone at Gullfoss . Alone , and exhilarated by the noise , the spray and the view — — and also by the fact that we were not ankle - deep in wrinkled cans and other crap , or being persuaded to buy Gullfossburgers by bright neon signs . Nothing was there to compete with this wonder of the natural world . We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: yes)
The results were predicted to be of two kinds . Firstly , since free labour was cheaper and more productive than slave labour , East Indian sugar could be sold , if allowed to compete on equal terms , at a lower price than West Indian in both the British and European markets . This would compel West Indians to produce more economically , and this they could only do by moving towards free labour and engaging the labourers ' personal material interests in their work . Dickson 's recommendation of Steele 's experiments was seen as an appropriate guide in making the transformation smoothly and fairly rapidly . If in the process of transition West Indian proprietors experienced temporary losses Cropper was confident that ' our country will cheerfully grant indemnity ' .
Idiom: in my book (used idiomatically: yes)
Reid admitted : ‘ It 's hard to find a weakness . ‘ People say Ron Atkinson was presented with all that David Platt cash to rebuild his team . ‘ But in my book it 's good management and Ron has as good a chance as any to get his hands on that title.’ Anfield new boy Stig jumps in to make timely debut Des Kelly
Idiom: come a cropper (used idiomatically: yes)
Some dealers tried to convey the false impression that the two markets were in cahoots . Prior to the 1987 stock market crash , the third market went through lean periods . The share prices of Catalyst Communications and of Corton Beach , strictly on a temporary basis , dropped back ; these erstwhile giants of the OTC market seemed to have come a cropper . " You 'll be better off investing in OTC stocks , " Harvard dealers urged ; they were paid a higher commission on OTC than on third market sales . The Third Market had considerable advantages over the OTC .
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: yes)
' American television viewers need and want a channel dedicated to high quality theatre , music , dance and visual arts ' , Mr Brown says . Ovation will differ from America 's sole current provider of high - brow television , the non - profit Public Broadcasting System ( PBS ) by dealing only with the arts , as opposed to science , educational and general news shows . Unlike existing cable ' arts ' channels , such as Bravo and Arts & Entertainment , which mainly carry movies and series reruns , Ovation will focus on performance and behind - the - scenes reporting on the international art world . Broadcasting seven days a week from 3 pm to 3 am , and increasing to eighteen hours a day within two years , Ovation will offer a daily cultural news review , interviews , profiles , live or pre - recorded dramatic performances , dance events , museum visits and concerts ( possibly with radio simulcast ) , as well as specially promoted monthly ' blockbuster specials ' . At first the station will air existing programmes , but eventually will produce its own material , with Mr Brown himself sometimes appearing on - camera .
Idiom: in Dutch (used idiomatically: yes)
Until the 1640s the colonies had taken it for granted that they would trade only with England , partly because Charles 's government gave orders that they should , partly because the hostile Spanish colonies offered them no real alternative . The success of the Dutch in the West Indian sugar trade in the 1640s showed that this natural monopoly of the colonies ' trade would not last any longer , so English shipbuilders were gratified to find that the Navigation Act would limit the colonial trade to English ships . The direct effect was to cut sharply into the Dutch carrying trade , by shutting re - exports from Dutch ports out of England ( which compensated English colonies to some extent for losing their Dutch connections ) and by forbidding the export of colonial products in Dutch ships . The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . But when the great general of the Civil War , Oliver Cromwell , lost his temper with the Rump Parliament for trying to monopolize power , and made himself supreme instead , he regretted this war between Protestant countries and set out to make peace between them as soon as possible .
Idiom: under the table (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Did you happen to notice what he was wearing?’ Dora looked surprised , thought for a moment and said , ‘ Blue trousers and a white shirt , I think.’ Iris opened her mouth to contradict , but Melissa nudged her under the table . Dora looked at them curiously and said , ‘ Why do you ask?’ ‘ I just wondered … you said this was about nine - thirty .
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: yes)
Well I wanted to say that erm since nineteen eighty five and constant November nineteen ninety prices , erm the Council , by members ' decisions , have erm put in another thirty nine million of additional service provision . Yesterday we took out I think it was erm seven million plus a little bit out of that additional service provision , so we have put in thirty two million since its nineteen eighty five base in services throughout all departments . Now education has of that thirty nine million the Education Department benefited by about eighteen million , and we took , I think it was erm four million out yesterday , we will be back to a net gain of fourteen million on education and social services have benefited since eighty five by about to the tune of nine million and or eight point six million , and we took about four hundred thousand out of that yesterday . But David So let 's look at this in a we tend to
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: yes)
Why it 's Jones junior … Wimbledon 's success won them the Barclays Performance of the Week award . The decision by England manager Graham Taylor 's panel means that a local South London boys club benefit to the tune of £ 650 . MoM : Roger Joseph , Wimbledon ( flawless defence ) . Souness walking a tightrope
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
They were subsequently published as The Feynman Lectures in Physics . The third and final volume is devoted to quantum theory and there he tells us that its first chapter will tackle the basic element of the mysterious behaviour in its most strange form . We choose to examine a phenomenon which is impossible , absolutely impossible , to explain in any classical way , and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics . In reality it contains the only mystery . We can not make the mystery go away by " explaining " how it works .
Idiom: off the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
He resented the cult of those religions . He preferred to spend time in the school library . He liked to work away at Latin or Greek , or to pick books of history or biography off the shelves . Some afternoons he was forced onto the field and trotted around with boredom . When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building .
Idiom: catch a cold (used idiomatically: yes)
He shivers . ‘ You using?’ ‘ I caught a cold . Here 's your money.’ He pulls a wad of notes from his trouser pocket and starts to count them .
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
The opinions are highly predictable . Wynne Godley has been consistently the gloomiest economist operating in Britain , believing that the UK economy is suffering from severe structural weaknesses , and it will remain locked in a low growth and high unemployment pattern for years . At the other extreme , Prof Patrick Minford believes that most of the UK 's problems are cyclical and will disappear as a spontaneous recovery takes root , filling the Chancellor 's coffers with tax revenues and creating new jobs , so long as the Chancellor has continued to keep inflation under control . But Minford and Godley are the least optimistic about an early upturn in the economy this year . The two most monetarist in inclination , Profs Minford and Congdon , both believe a buoyant increase in money supply is a necessary precursor of a recovery .
Idiom: as a rule (used idiomatically: no)
The judgment endorsed the importance of the court reporter as " the watchdog of justice " , and the vital significance of press comment and criticism of the behaviour of judges and magistrates . Although there was no specific statutory requirement that justices should be named , the court deduced such a requirement from the fundamental nature of the open justice principle . The importance of Leigh is that the court was prepared to treat the " open justice " principle as a rule of law which could be asserted by a journalist against a discretionary policy , rather than as a desirable state of affairs which could nonetheless give way to judicial convenience . This was a welcome change from the approach of the House of Lords majority in Home Office v Harman , decided a few years earlier , which held that a solicitor committed contempt by showing the other side 's private documents to a journalist after they had been read out in open court . In that case , the " open justice " principle did not prevail over property rights in the documents and the rule which limited their use to the action itself .
Idiom: walk all over (used idiomatically: yes)
Do n't eat the microphone Rick . You cheeky . T that 's it , walk all over me . You cheek The gloves are good .
Idiom: in this day and age (used idiomatically: yes)
It is well worth going down Yeah . I should think in this day and age they could Now there look at that lot as well . I mean it 's amazing is n't it ?
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: no)
And if it is , I would so move , because I think extremely sluggish . I mean , what I was going to say , from what I 've picked up from some of the comments from some of the district , district councils ' consultation it makes me wonder if they 're capable of actually taking on the role of social services in joint commissioning . But anyway , a lot of the detail , a lot of the detail seems to have been around the , the , the words that have , have , have been used in the document , but I 'll ask Paul to specifically respond to that . Well I 'll , I 'll do so briefly . Erm , I think the Director has advised me , and he 's had more experience at these matters not to respond to that , and
Idiom: live it up (used idiomatically: yes)
" Are they the best years ? " I asked . " I thought now was supposed to be the marvellous time , and we 're all meant to be living it up , burning the candle at both ends , finding out what we want to do with our lives . " " Yes , well . " My mother looked up from the sewing machine .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
The objective is to provide a framework and tool to support and enhance economic regeneration , to get the most effective use of resources in the widest partnership and to put these regions back on the road to recovery and sustainable development so that eventually they come off the regional life - support machine . It is important to identify the skills and potential of our regions in the hi - tech sector . It is particularly important in the light of reports in the media that Europe is rapidly losing ground to the US in the hi - tech growth industries of the future . The operation of the previous round of programmes is also very instructive in telling us what guidelines should not be about . They should not be about creating additional layers of bureaucracy and red ~ tape .
Idiom: get up someone's nose (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Actually,’ said Louise , ‘ it 's the perfect solution . I do n't know why I did n't think of it myself . I mean , you and Edward are n't involved emotionally like we are , and he 's not going to get up your nose in the same way and I 'll know where he is and that he 's all right . It 's the obvious arrangement . At least he rang .
Idiom: on the warpath (used idiomatically: yes)
Today unemployment on those lands stands at around 90 % . About 60 % of Indians in towns are out of work . While the new law may succeed in exposing the burgeoning volume of ‘ Indian theme’ objects coming to the US , in the fine arts it has sent some Indian artists on the warpath . The Five Civilised Nations Museum in Muskogee , Oklahoma , that normally shows and sells Indian art , closed down an exhibition in 1991 when it found that at least a third of its ‘ Indian’ artists had no tribal documentation . One of those was the celebrated woodcarver Willard Stone , a full - blooded Cherokee who had never bothered to register with a tribe .
Idiom: go places (used idiomatically: yes)
Made into hybrid integrated circuit packaging , this innovative material was displayed to delegates and fellow exhibitors alike at the ninth European Hybrid Microelectronics Conference in Nice , France . Offering substantial weight savings to makers of electronic packages , the material looks like having a bright future and Barry Moloney , Marketing and Sales Manager responsible for HIVOL , was kept very busy discussing possible applications and the advantages it promises . PLASMAS ARE GOING PLACES Part of Dr Brian Eyre , AEA Chief Executive 's visit to Culham last month incorporated a look at current work in Fusion , in particular the START experiment , and at new areas being developed for plasma processing . He is pictured here with InTec 's Neil Griffiths , looking at the test bed for a newly developed plasma processing unit for sterilising hospital instruments — a pilot one of which is on trial at Oxford 's John Radcliffe Hospital .
Idiom: meat and potatoes (used idiomatically: yes)
In the last year of a brief life at the heart of a kind of doting celebrity that knew the value of success , he fell into notoriety of the sort that is just as American as his life . He ran into the Know Nothings . For all his coinciding with the world of fashion , with the glamour and risks of the pederasty he helped publicise , Mapplethorpe 's pictures remain alien to the canons of American good taste and to meat - and - potato American ideas about art . As part of a sexual sub - culture which conservative America would rather did not exist — but fears to attack in the open — Mapplethorpe was an obvious target for the new Know Nothings . The original Know Nothing party arose in the 1860s ( its name refers to the fact that it was a secret party and its members , if interrogated , said they knew nothing about it ) .
Idiom: fun and games (used idiomatically: no)
We trained hard as well but the snow stopped us from doing too much off - road riding . The best bit was racing quads on ice — we had a good laugh about that.’ Two areas of France dominate French bikesport — the Auvergne area , which has produced Christian and Dominique Sarron , Morillas and 1982 250 world champ Jean Louis Tournadre , and the Cote d'Azur , which has given us Raymond Roche , Jean Francois Balde and Ruggia — and these local heroes love to get together in the winter for fun and games . ‘ The quads were great fun but not so hard as the crosscountry skiing we did . When the heavy snow storms came I did some langlauf with Christian and Dominique Sarron and Adrien .
Idiom: bite the dust (used idiomatically: yes)
Report , Page 24 The gamut of enlightenment from A to B ANOTHER Budget bites the dust and I am assailed by the sobering realisation that though I 've been subjected to a fair number of them now , I have n't really understood any . The carefree days , when only swingeing increases in the price of the Beano and soor plooms impinged upon the consciousness , have long since passed . Life is earnest and , as a responsible individual , I should know what is going on .
Idiom: go west (used idiomatically: yes)
To see Rievaulx on a decent route , make a circular walk based on the village of Old Byland . You can go north then east over the River Rye and then south to the abbey . Go west on part of The Cleveland Way before making your way back to the village . For Bolton Abbey ( open all year from dawn to dusk ) , start at the Abbey car park , go north to Simon 's Seat then walk over to Howgill and return on the banks of the River Wharfe . Save the abbey as a treat for the end of your walk .
Idiom: out of line (used idiomatically: no)
time the block according to the opponent 's technique • move out of the opponent 's centre - line • keep your own centre - line turned towards the opponent
Idiom: turn heads (used idiomatically: yes)
As a speechreading passenger , it is an easy matter to arrange a mirror on the visor so that you can see the passenger in front and chat in the ordinary way . The driver may also arrange a mirror additional to the driving mirror so that the speechreading passenger sitting next to him sees his face . Naturally a good driver will not turn his head to talk to his companion . Aeroplane travel is just about the easiest . At ' check - in ' , mention that you wo n't hear the flight number called .
Idiom: take the cake (used idiomatically: yes)
' It may be best for us ' , McFarlane reported back at the time , ' to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice - President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ' An expatriate Iranian satirist , Hadi Khorsandi , later claimed in fun to have had the ear of Rafsanjani , who told him that his discussions with McFarlane ' were meant only for him to practise the English language … all the contacts he had had with Americans over the past year had been made for the purpose of learning irregular verbs . ' McFarlane was said to have taken a cake and a Bible on the trip . There was no Bible except North 's own , which the pilot with some surprise spotted him carrying onto the plane ; an official Bible , autographed by Reagan , went on a trip in October . But there was a key - shaped chocolate cake — a ' joke ' between North and the Iranian middleman , Manucher Ghorbanifar , ordered by North from a kosher bakery in Israel — and a pair of Colt pistols in a presentation box .
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
Samey levels , awkward controls and some of the most noninteractive flying ever seen on the C64 make G - Loc a game to avoid . Lose Yer Lunch G - LOC in the arcades broke new ground in flashy game cabinets . The ‘ pilot’ sits inside a spherical unit which can rotate through 360 degrees , allowing the player to roll and loop as if he were really inside the aircraft ! Of course such technology does n't come cheap , so to make sure you spend all your dosh in it , game time was kept hideously short .
Idiom: go from strength to strength (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ There 's really nothing like it , says Margaret . ‘ I took up the sport six years ago when my local team , the Darlington Dawdlers , were short of a fourth rider . We 've gone from strength to strength from there qualifying for last year 's UK Team Chase Championships . Margaret bought her first horse , Willowbeck , a 16.3hh Thoroughbred in 1981 . He was sold on to make way for two show jumpers — Lady Touchwood , a 15.3hh Thoroughbred and Floyd , a part Thoroughbred .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ One call and I 'll make it a quarter - pounder with fries.’ ‘ Sold — to the man in the Biggles jacket.’ I took stock of my fur - lined leather jacket which I had prized for years , and I did n't see any problem . George Michael could have got away with it , but then he can get away without shaving . I decided not to rise to the bait .
Idiom: give someone the creeps (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ What did you think of Green 's gesture?’ Markby asked her . ‘ To tell you the truth , it gave me the creeps . It made me think of that voodoo thing which hangs round graveyards and wears a top hat.’ An image of Green 's bared head as he looked down at Harriet 's body came into her mind and of his face and expression .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
The 28th saw them surrounded by tanks and under heavy artillery and mortar fire . At 13–00 hours a frontal attack was made by tanks who approached within 20 yards of company positions , firing at point blank range . Still under heavy fire from artillery and mortars , and themselves down to a small amount of ammunition , the remnants of the 1 st Bucks stood fast until dark . On the evening of the 27th , while extricating his platoon from a perilous position in houses in Hazenbrouck , Second Lieutenant Shewell showed great personal bravery and determined leadership and disposed of several snipers . At one point the platoon was split in two .