Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: turn heads (used idiomatically: yes)
It was a little like a Hero-9 or Method-1 buzz , but without any of the elation . Somehow , with the glasses on , she felt compelled to look back over her shoulder all the time . Like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread , Tasha sang on her Ancient Mariner Mambo album , and having once turned round walks on , and turns no more his head ; because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread . It was like that . You did n't see the frightful fiend , but that did n't mean it was n't there .
Idiom: small print (used idiomatically: yes)
When I complained , the company said there was a clause on the processing envelope that said if anything went wrong , it only had to pay for the film . Is this true ? A The film processor is trying to evade its liability by relying on the small print . But do n't be put off . Under the 1977 Unfair Contract Terms Act , exclusion clauses like these have to be fair and reasonable .
Idiom: down in the mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
I felt we had to find and develop talk personalities who could be entertaining as well as erudite . Our first ‘ find’ was Earle Kelly , a bewhiskered and rusty - voiced newsman from the Daily Province , who was engaged to read the 9 o'clock news . His hearty voice was soon familiar to and popular with many thousands of listeners up and down the west coast and he invariably ended his broadcasts with a special Good - Night wish to a different section of the community each evening , such as to June brides , to lighthouse keepers ‘ out there in the dark’ , or to all dentists who might be ‘ looking down in the mouth’ . Not clever stuff , but he got away with it . Among the many new and original talks personalities brought to Canadian listeners from the west coast were two that really caught the public imagination .
Idiom: to the letter (used idiomatically: yes)
I am , I think , cancelling my forthcoming Japanese student as the loo flooded the other day and whilst a temporary repair has been done , the whole needs attention . Get in touch on your return and come to supper . In response to your 23rd March letter , I return your form , duly completed and enclosing £ 25.00 . Your letter was sent on to Italy and the post to and fro is so awful it only arrived back here last week when I was in London . I do hope I may remain a member ?
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: no)
Yeah , mm mm . erm and then you can control the density of the other lights . And they go down at a bit at a time or it 'll go all the way down . Mm ! Nifty , what ?
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
Avoiding their curious glances , she walked round to the hardware section and tried to shut her ears to the whispered conversations that suddenly broke out as soon as she was out of sight . Well , she 'd known it was n't going to be easy . Peering round the end shelf as she heard the doorbell ping again , she pulled a face as she saw it was Mrs Beeson . Oh , hell , she had no doubt hotfooted it to the store after seeing her with Leo . Smiling to herself , she listened to the hissed shushing that ensued as Mrs B. tried to impart her news .
Idiom: kiss of death (used idiomatically: yes)
The Arts : Never more in Neverland FILMS Hugo Davenport on Hook , Steven Spielberg 's sad betrayal of J. M. BY HUGO DAVENPORT Barrie 's classic ; a kiss of death in Amazonia ; and k. d. lang in Alaska THE word ‘ hook’ is Hollywood slang for the distinctive twist in the plot set - up of an otherwise familiar generic story . It is designed , like a fishing lure , to catch the audience 's eye and yield a rich haul at the box - office .
Idiom: rough and tumble (used idiomatically: yes)
He mentions ' the odd brawl and punch - up ' , for example , the fact that policemen only went in pairs in some districts , and that they patrolled the centre of the city in strength each weekend ' because prostitutes and drunks frequently started fights and a good time was had by all ' . Already , the description of a street brawl as ' a good time ' denotes an altered moral terrain . Sir Robert also mentions the hazardous rough - and - tumble involved in making street arrests while surrounded by hostile , jeering crowds . In one such incident , described in some detail , he tells us how ' one Friday night an enormous navvy pushed the head of a constable through a shop window and started quite a battle in which uniformed and plainclothes men cheerfully joined in ' . Again , it is a cheerful confrontation , even though'it grew to quite serious proportions , stopping the traffic in Ardwick Green ' .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Even better , Mala was being fairly close to friendly towards me , making her very good company . So I did n't even raise an objection when she insisted on touring the Story of Vadinamia museum , which included a lengthier account of the planet 's development than I could ever want — plus an equally detailed , and gruesome , study of life and death on the planets surface , Later on , though , we found a little bar on the edge of the port city , with acceptable food and drink . And before long Mala was actually responding to some of my witticisms with that flashing smile which alters her from being pretty in to being staggeringly beautiful . Back on the ship afterwards , she flashed the smile one more time — and then whisked away to her own cabin .
Idiom: for good measure (used idiomatically: yes)
If they can learn to sustain this over a long while , The La 's would be world - shakers . The other thing that gets blasted away tonight is the theory that Lee is hung up on writing ‘ that difficult 13th song’ . There are half a dozen songs tonight that have n't been released , and they 're all worth their stuff ; a bonkers instrumental after the Grateful Dead called ‘ Swashbuckler’ , a flaming flamenco exercise ( ‘ Callin'-All’ ) and a yearning epic sung by John that took the wired - up angsty quality of The Boys ' ‘ First Time’ and put in some of Roy Orbison 's operatic noodlings for good measure . Loved it . The La 's are alright then .
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
He held onto the hat and hurried on . He was running short of time . He might have to abandon his return to the pensione to change and go straight to the Stasi address . That depended , of course , on whether he decided to go through with it or not . The whole thing was getting out of control .
Idiom: my bad (used idiomatically: yes)
The beautiful clean sun on the blood - red stems . And coming back I had a long talk with the nice shy boy , Jean - Louis . His bad English and my bad French , yet we understood each other . Terribly timid he was . Frightened of Piers .
Idiom: in the soup (used idiomatically: yes)
However , you can also get protein from meat , beans and seeds while the richest alternative sources of calcium are : seeds , fish , nuts , goat 's and sheep 's milk , dark green leafy vegetables , dried fruit , wholegrains , beans and pulses . Take a 500 mg calcium tablet daily until your diet includes plenty of calcium - rich non - milk products . As casein in soups and stews ; cheese biscuits , cocktail snacks ; as dried milk powder in biscuits and cakes ; as lactic acid in prepared salads ; as milk solids in chocolate , as whey powder in margarine . ' Hidden ' milk 3
Idiom: part of the furniture (used idiomatically: yes)
He is seen , just briefly , behind a barricade in a burning street , his rifle beside him but intent on removing a stone from his boot while a German Tiger tank moves steadily down the street towards him . The more menacing the progress of the tank , the more absorbed the boy becomes in his physical discomfort . The camera eventually tracks away leaving the boy still shaking his boot , part of the furniture of the front line . As we clambered across the rubble towards him , our 12-year - old boy in 1976 knew that the nearest tank was only 300 yards away . But he also knew it had been destroyed ; like Lebanon and the 40,000 who had died there over the previous 17 months .
Idiom: crystal clear (used idiomatically: yes)
That is an admirable use of my time and a tribute to the openness of the system . The support should also be available in a lateral sense . This support will become more readily available from parallel functions such as accounts , or selling or marketing or production or research , if all of you are crystal clear what the objective is . The support from one 's functional colleagues requires first of all a high degree of mutuality of respect for each other 's expertise and a shared acceptance of the objective that you are trying to achieve . But even that is not quite enough .
Idiom: not a pretty sight (used idiomatically: yes)
Knowingness , in fact , is everywhere . Spielberg 's last attempt at an adult theme was the nave , saccharine spirituality of Always ; and yet , paradoxically , his children 's Neverland lacks innocence . All directors , including Spielberg , grow up , and in this film the result is not a pretty sight . The Arts : Carry on leaning By RICHARD LAST
Idiom: in the final analysis (used idiomatically: yes)
' West Indian''underachievement ' was attributed to a combination of poor socio - economic circumstances , which were exacerbated by racism , and to racism within the education system . Given the awareness that not all ' Asians ' were middle class and/or immune to racism within the education system , however , how could the apparently better ' Asian'educational performance be understood ? In the final analysis , the Swann Report not only put aside what it had already acknowledged about the relatively poor performance of students of Bangladesh I origin , but ignored evidence that students of Mirpuri Pakistani origin were also under performing , while students of East African Asian origin seemed to be achieving exceptionally well . Social class and rural - urban contrasts , and different relations with British colonial states and education systems , are very likely to be involved as causal influences here , and Swann could well have commissioned research to explore some of the underlying issues . Instead , despite its disavowals and qualifications the Report slid into the trap of singling out ' Asian ' culture and especially its main bearer , ' the Asian family ' , to explain the contrast with ' West Indians ' .
Idiom: close to home (used idiomatically: yes)
He says they should n't carry much money and if they are threatened they should never resist . But Amanda Cadder , who was planning to emigrate to America , says she 's never going back . She says it was too close to home and it could easily have been them . Tonight the family is celbrating , with a birthday party for three year old Anthony . But for them American no longer means the good life , just bad memories .
Idiom: off the mark (used idiomatically: no)
Not so . Concentration is such a rare event in television viewing that any hope of following the intricacy of Twin Peaks is a dream … sad but true,’ wrote the Hollywood Reporter . The sceptics could n't be more off the mark . Almost 35 million Americans tuned in to the first , two - hour pilot , making it the most watched TV movie of the season . And although ratings have dropped since the show began airing regularly , Twin Peaks remains something of a national passion .
Idiom: first come, first served (used idiomatically: yes)
The course will be held at the University of Surrey fields at Manor Farm , Guildford , just off the A3 . Commencing on Friday , May 1st , it will run at weekends and some weekday evenings until May 19th . Places are allocated on a strictly first come first served basis , and are limited to a maximum of 16 places , some of which are already allocated . Details from the coaching secretary ( Woking 764521 ) or from the Surrey County F.A . at Leatherhead .
Idiom: fall from grace (used idiomatically: yes)
Living on cloud nine is intoxicating and precarious . There is a fear of being found wanting , even found out , and thus the constant threat of a plummeting descent from heaven . There is a dread of falling from grace . The process of engaging , seducing and conquering is a time of extreme emotions , of high hopes and despair , of jealousy and triumph , of intense agitation and prolonged inactivity . The intensity of life at this time led Congreve to compare courtship favourably with marriage as ‘ a very witty prologue to a rather dull play’ .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: no)
Oh is it ? you 'll find it that way anyway wo n't you ? Should go all the way up and then back down should n't it ? Yeah they do no they do go round . Pretty sure they do anyway , Blinking slow innit that direction ?
Idiom: head for the hills (used idiomatically: yes)
So … the Indian named William did exist and , moreover , he lived close by . The policeman , who was even now shutting up his office , was evidently going to guide me there . Fifteen minutes later , having banged and bumped our way up another track heading directly for the low hills , the two of us came to the small tin - roofed hut which I had imagined and there , standing before it , was the single link required to bring Balboa 's journey and mine into their final conjunction . William , busily digging some unrecognizable vegetable out of the mud , was wearing gumboots and the jaunty remnants of a straw hat . ( Not , however , a Panama hat , since those are only worn in Ecuador . )
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
In the tenth she was beginning to receive visitors of standing , and a golden crown and jewels were added to her coat . In the eleventh pilgrims poured through her little valley in great throngs , and money became plentiful in her chests and building fund . A great church , lofty and beautiful , was built on the shelf of rock ; a monastery of size and standing was set about it . Early in the twelfth century a new tympanum was carved over the west door , showing the Last Judgement — welcoming visitors to horrific scenes of diabolical torture ; but also revealing , as doubtless the guides instructed the visitors with particular care , the heavenly hopes of the good , and especially of those who won the intercession of St Faith . In the same eleventh century which saw St Faith 's basilica spring up in Conques , a greater than Faith appeared in Burgundy , in the hill - top monastery at Vézelay .
Idiom: cut both ways (used idiomatically: yes)
Aghast when the news first struck with its initial shattering impact , psychiatrists quickly rallied , closed ranks , adapted very well , and conducted their own surveys , which unfortunately only confirmed Eysenck 's mordant findings . At this point and with a sigh of profound relief , there being nothing else a true scientist could do under the circumstances , psychiatrists the world over dismissed Eysenck , and his findings , on the grounds that Eysenck is a racist sonuvabitch . It is clear from this example that inverse irreversibility can and often does , cut both ways , that is , Eysenck 's bias in favour of race being a principal factor in inherent intelligence and the psychiatrists ' abuse of his statistics because of that , red herring in mad pursuit of red herring . When in 1952 Michael Ventris announced he had succeeded in deciphering Linear B and that it was an archaic form of Greek , howls of indignant refutation were raised by the fraternity of linguistic experts as a matter of course , and when , with that beautiful sense of timing which nemesis has , a whole library of Linear B tablets was unearthed in Pylos on the Greek mainland one year later , translations of which confirmed Ventris 's conclusion , the experts did the only thing they could under the circumstances : they accused the discoverer and Ventris of having forged them . When late in 1972 Richard Leakey announced he had dug up the skull , thighbone , and parts of the lower leg of a human that were more than 2 ½ million years old , thus , if correct , disproving man 's direct descent from Australopithecus , many anthropologists seated in leather armchairs in universities not immediately adjacent to East Africa swiftly challenged Leakey 's conclusions , this despite the fact that they had not examined the bones in question , the strata in and near which they had been found , the animal bones found in the same strata , or indeed anything .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
As you get fitter , you 'll find that you can manage longer journeys in surprisingly short times . Family outings on bikes are a good way to make the best of summer days . If you get really keen , you might like to join your local cycling club . These clubs often run tours and other events to take part in . This leaflet is produced by the Health Education Council in conjunction with the organisers of The Great British Bike Ride , an annual sponsored bike ride from Land 's End to John o ' Groats organised by Bike Events and sponsored this year , once again , for Friends of the Earth .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
There was two and two seating on the upper deck , except for two single seats by the trolley mast . All could be turned over except that by the stair opening and at the end of the canopy . They had three plank solid backs , but the seats were made of thin laths set on edge and not quite touching , so that rain water could pass between them . The trolley masts were of the Brecknell , Munro B / l type , but a late version which could be turned through the full circle . Destination boxes were set on high stanchions above the ends of the upper deck and had glazed openings in the back , so no deck lights were required .
Idiom: donkey work (used idiomatically: yes)
And then , when you think you have everything under control , when you 're certain you 're in complete command of it all your thoughts , your life , your world and your work what does Time do ? Nothing dramatic , nothing sensational . It just slows you down so that there are no longer enough hours in the day , and then some things get put off and other things are only half - completed and you 're told you need help — an assistant priest , no less , to concentrate , as the Bishop with his unfailing instinct for the wrong word put it , on ‘ the donkey work’(well , perhaps after all I was only a beast of burden , Father McGiff conceded ) to give you ‘ a chance to relax , take life more easily , think a bit more , pray a bit more , meditate’ . At least that was some consolation : meditation . Yes , indeed .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: yes)
These were bright young theorists , not seasoned observers . Previous generations had dined in black ties in the panelled dining rooms of observatories that were male preserves ; the new breed ate ' primeval pizza ' in basements around physics labs . Under the influence of these ideas , and the technological advances that have come with them , cosmology has changed . New instruments , especially the electronic detectors that collect light so much more efficiently and less fussily than the old emulsion plates , have removed some of the art from observing . Today 's organised and systematic searches of the skies record far more red - shifts in a year or so than Dr Sandage has measured in his life — and have , in doing so , found strange currents , superimposed on the overall expansion , in which galaxies flow like twigs on a stream .
Idiom: catch the sun (used idiomatically: yes)
The baby sleeps , slumped like a bean bag in her chair . She 's caught the sun . More ferocious , leonine yawns , more pillars sleeping it off
Idiom: win the day (used idiomatically: yes)
At the end of the following year , in December 1980 , the CGLI submitted its own proposals for the constitution of the validating body and , eventually , in July 1981 , the government 's position was made clear in a ministerial statement to parliament . In announcing future arrangements for the validation of sub - degree courses in agriculture and related subjects , it stated the CGLI had been invited to establish a National Consultative Group for the Co - ordination of Validation Arrangements in Agriculture and related subjects . As the Group 's terms of reference , scope , functions and core membership were closely based on the CGLI 's proposals , then clearly the Institute might be said to have won the day . The Group , jointly financed by the DES and CGLI , was duly established for a three - year period , and its remit is fourfold : to review existing provision ; to identify any overlap or gaps which may exist ; to identify an appropriate integrated and progressive pattern of schemes and awards ; and to make recommendations to the appropriate validating bodies . When formulating its eventual recommendations , the National Consultative Group will have to take into account two essential differences between agriculture and the rest of British industry : it is for the most part composed of relatively small - scale and highly efficient enterprises employing limited numbers of men and women working in relative isolation from one another ; and , as we have seen , the boundaries between the craftsman and technician in agriculture are shifting and difficult , if not impossible , to define .
Idiom: err on the side of (used idiomatically: yes)
Now he talks of revoking some of the freedoms , including a freer press , that the Soviet parliament brought into being last year . He may yet suspend parliament itself . In the past , whenever he has erred on the side of too much order , the judgment inside the Soviet Union and outside has been that ' Gorbachev is as good as we 'll get ' . The likeliest alternative always seemed to be worse . But now Mr Gorbachev has made himself the unpalatable alternative .
Idiom: save someone's skin (used idiomatically: yes)
He was churning with the desire to get Pete back . He wanted to beat that stupid moony face to a pulp and then apologize —'Oh sorry mate , I did n't have any choice , I know you 'll understand ' . Pete had sacrificed him to save his own worthless skin , holding up his fat family as some kind of excuse . Pete could have done something . He could have told the screws and … what ?
Idiom: cut and dried (used idiomatically: no)
Bobby Gould , the Coventry manager , had paid Arsenal the ultimate respect by changing tactics in the hope of nullifying Paul Merson and the Gunners , but it backfired . Arsenal manager George Graham 's response to his side 's march back to the top was as predictable as the result . ‘ There are two thirds of the season left and it 's not as cut and dried as everyone thinks,’ he claimed . ‘ There are lots of twists to come . Blackburn will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season , especially with the chequebook.’
Idiom: bells and whistles (used idiomatically: yes)
In the past decade , the market leaders in the field have been made enormously more sophisticated . Some are almost indistinguishable from desktop publishing systems . So what happens if a purchaser claims that he wishes to acquire only the basic wordprocessing part of the sophisticated package , perhaps because he or she wishes the output to be compatible with a machine on which all the bells and whistles have been legitimately installed ? Usually there is no legitimate solution . Buy the whole package , or do without is what the salesman says .