Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
It was Daedalian blood that accounted for the native handiness and wit and industry of the people of Ninfania , the father had always thought . As for Daedalus himself , he had been busy too at the time inventing the Greek alphabet in Cumae , on the other side of the peninsula . Davide Pittagora had been born in Rupe , ancient Rubi , a great centre of vase - painting , not quite as cosmopolitan as Taranto on the coast , for the Ionian port could attend a wealthier class of customer , but a distinguished artists ' colony , up in the fresher air of the hills , away from the hot sandpaper winds that blew the trade into Riba and her sister harbours , Dolmetta , Tirrani , and , further south , Brindisi . The quivering line of Southern Italian black figure vase - painting , so different from its counterpart on the Greek mainland in its general insouciance and amiability , was being drawn in Rubi more than two thousand years before Davide was born . In Ninfania , the to and fro of peoples — of troglodytes , Iapygians , of Greeks on their heels , and Romans on theirs - had sown in the pale chocolate - coloured fields a different harvest of pots and glass and coin , and bequeathed to the Ninfanians another occasionally profitable and effortless trade , the traffic in antiquities .
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: yes)
ONE The day was almost over before the young men made their move . Karen King — because she was English , Jessica insisted — had given over even thinking about them , let alone imagining what they might do with their hard , lean bodies and their tired , rope - burned hands , had given over bothering to deny she 'd had such fantasies . When Jessica poked her in the ribs and swore they were coming for them , she hardly raised her head .
Idiom: talk the talk (used idiomatically: yes)
If you 're going to talk the talk , you ' ve got to be prepared to walk the walk .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
Unless you 're a real fanatic , you wo n't need shoes specifically designed for the action . A cross - trainer ( multi - purpose ) shoe will be your best buy , according to a survey carried out by the Consumers ' Association , and as long as your feet are well supported and cushioned you should n't pay more than around £ 40 . JOIN THE FREE BANKING CLUB Most big banks make the same charges for club accounts as for ordinary personal ones — which means that you may have to pay up to 70 pence for every cheque you write . But now Girobank are offering free banking to clubs and voluntary organisations as long as the account stays in credit .
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
People in the team have hurt one another , usually unwittingly , and have in turn been cold shouldered . Our attempt to be an intimate family has foundered ! After this , depression sets in and deep seated anger can take root . And when the same thing happens again , this makes the reaction all the more violent . At these times , when the dreams of the new church being the embodiment of close affection one to another have disintegrated , members are tempted to ask : Why do n't we give up ?
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
' An ' where do yer think yow've bin till now ? ' Dad was in a right lather . ' I got lost in the fog , ' Frankie said , looking at his feet . ' An ' where 's the money I gave yer fer the pictures ? ' he demanded . ' An ' look at me when I talk to yer . '
Idiom: under the sun (used idiomatically: yes)
Hello Paul ! Erm , I know you 're allergic to food and drink , so you keep on telling me , what sort of food are you allergic to ? Just about everything under the sun . What sort Dairy products erm dairy products , oranges various fruits .
Idiom: under the sun (used idiomatically: no)
Mr Mellor 's contract will run for six weeks , starting on January 9 . ‘ He will have the same pay and arrangements as previous presenters,’ Radio 5 spokeswoman Judy Leighton tells me . ‘ The programme deals with anything under the sun about football matters . People ring up about the match they 've just been to and complain or say who they think should be the next England manager , etc . ‘ It is important that the presenter has a good knowledge of sport.’
Idiom: make a go of (used idiomatically: no)
Erm , they 've demolished all the north side , you know what used to be the dynamics and that 's all gone , it 's gon na become , you know , it 's not very , that 's becoming a , well , in the process of becoming a business park , but I mean , mean well , I mean , it , it , it 's all executive erm , and you know business stuff and on the surface , you know , we 're still reasonably busy with , with that sort of thing , but erm , no that , they have , the only one four six we see now is just on the company shuttle just you know until they complete the close down of the factory , they shuttle them up to Woodford , er , er , and back every day . But that really wo n't last long much after the erm , well we do n't know , I er , nobody really knows , I mean , British Aerospace has fragmented into all of these property groups and Rover and everybody 's got fingers in the pie and we 're not , we 're sort of caught half way between short - term aims to make a quick profit from trying to get Shell in you know and that sort of thing , but I mean , we just need to talk about , nobody really knows what the long - term policy of the main British Aerospace Board is . Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long - term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . Erm , we get fed all sorts of information from various levels in and rumours from outside , not just the milkman , you know Golf , Romeo , Alpha , Alpha , Romeo
Idiom: on someone's mind (used idiomatically: yes)
So when we got overseas course we flew with the Ninety Second Bomb Group the Three Two Six Squadron and er all we were pretty well into our missions , I would say about six , seven , eight . When a new plane came in and they assigned it to our crew , it being the principle crew and we got to name it and we named our plane Skyscraper , I do have some later pictures but er it taken in front of the plane of the crew that I was flying with at that time and the ground crew in front of Skyscraper . But this is the crew and the picture that flew to Colesfield on the tenth of October of forty three and we had nothing out of the ordinary to report about that mission and that was the Gdynia Mission the day before , it certainly stands out on our minds because of the length of it and then of course the next one on the fourteenth of October to Schweinfurt which changed our lives . The following mission to Colesfield on October tenth but Ninety Two Ninety Second planes leading the Division . Twenty aircraft was despatched and sixteen attacked .
Idiom: follow in someone's footsteps (used idiomatically: yes)
Kids get idols — well , my mother was mine , and I 'm not ashamed to say she still is , and she ca n't do anything wrong in my book . She 's all for the finishing touches on everything . She 's a fantastic cook , which I 've followed in her footsteps . She does everything right ; when I was young I helped with my small sister — she was born when I was fourteen — and I helped with the housework of course . From about the age of ten I remember that .
Idiom: nine times out of ten (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Do n't look so shocked,’ he said . ‘ I have n't become an inveterate gambler like Uncle Cosmo . We only bet when Mr Harvey tells us who to back , and nine times out of ten he 's right , so I 've nearly doubled my savings . That 's how I could afford my passage to England and this holiday . On top of everything , he gave me 500 dollars for my twenty - first birthday and it 's this I intend sharing between Jenny and the family.’
Idiom: have a few (used idiomatically: no)
You do n't notice them when you are in the valleys , but after an invigorating climb up Black Ven or the Golden Cap , it is a huge disappointment to be confronted by rank upon rank of square box - shaped caravans . What is worse is that the caravans are painted white so that they stand out against the green landscape . Of course people need places to stay when on holiday and I 'm all for economical breaks such as caravanning , but I have a few suggestions which might help to improve the look of unsightly caravan parks . Firstly they could be painted in camouflage to lessen the visual impact or alternatively , they could be dispersed among trees and in copses , so as to be out of sight from the very well used coast paths . Better still , would be to think again about the best sort of accommodation for these sensitive areas .
Idiom: cut loose (used idiomatically: yes)
He said that if I had the time and the inclination he would be grateful if I would sort through the material , put the scores in chronological order to one side and throw out ‘ the rubbish’ . Jean - Claude was giving me licence to determine what part of his past to conserve and what part to be rid of . Perhaps he really did want to cut loose and was restrained from so doing by Maman , who would have regarded it as disloyal . I was not yet aware of other reasons . I was Jean - Claude 's gateway to the future , and I sensed he was becoming increasingly conscious of the fact , and satisfied with our relationship .
Idiom: off the hook (used idiomatically: yes)
How typical of this unbelievably arrogant man , she thought angrily — anyone else would surely have felt compelled to defend themselves , or at least to explain , but not him . He seemed to think she should simply take him at his word . Well , she was n't going to let him off the hook that easily . ‘ Go on,’ she said tersely . ‘ I 'm interested to hear how you define that difference .
Idiom: in the flesh (used idiomatically: yes)
Nothing to do with rushing in where angels fear to tread.’ Although even as she said it the thought rushed through her mind that that was exactly what she was doing now . Somehow Luke Hunter in the flesh seemed a whole lot less easy to ‘ cope with’ than she had envisaged . He was still looking at her ; appraisingly , with a sort of lazy sensuality that made something inside her twist tight . ‘ And you prefer your alias ?
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: yes)
Come here you fat animal . Leave my dog alone you smelly git . If you turd on the carpet you 're eating it . And your turd . Here you are , this is a good one
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: no)
His Petersburg counts for an awful lot . The illusionism which conjures a complete and natural ( I would prefer apocalypticnatural ) city out of materials as unpromising as the colour yellow , also yields up Raskolnikov like a natural secretion , and this vouchsafing process encompasses and transcends the resources both of first- and third - person narrative . To stay with yellow for a moment : we noted a paring - down to the bare bones of yellow water in a yellow glass when Raskolnikov comes to after fainting on his first visit to the police station . An opposite movement occurs with the elements of oppressive heat and smell on that same momentous fourth floor . In the first draft of the scene neither are mentioned .
Idiom: turn the corner (used idiomatically: yes)
The back of the wardrobe you always have facing the bannister of course , so that the shiny bit 's on the outside so it 's less likely to catch anything . Er if you catch the corner of the bannister just as you 're going by , usually have a wrapper over anyway , but i it it is n't going to damage . And he 'd got round the corner , ready to go down to the rest of the stairs which went down , and then at the bottom turned round the corner again . And the man at the bottom missed his foot . He missed a step so he went down two instead of one .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: no)
smelling of broken hearts . The wall of night is the last likeness , stretched in black nirvanas of luxury and calm , vertigo poised at its edge .
Idiom: call the tune (used idiomatically: yes)
Initially , he had much sympathy from the British trade union movement , funds pouring in from the mainland , including almost £ pound94,000 collected by the Trades Union Congress . By early November however , as the Dublin lock - out attacks against leaders of the trade unions and the Labour Party who seemed to be obstructing his plans for a general strike , not only in Dublin , but throughout Great Britain , vilifying them as " serpents whom I shall allow to raise their foul heads and spit out their poison no longer " and as having " neither soul to be saved nor body to be kicked " Almost overnight , support for Larkin turned into denunciation of his reckless methods and of his policy of attempting to bleed British unions of funds in support of sympathy strikes which seemed destined either to fail or to lead to unwanted revolution . British trade union leaders were , it seemed , being called upon to pay the piper when they were not even being allowed to call the tune . Even Tillett , regarded by many as the British equivalent of Larkin in language and syndicalist beliefs and whose attacks upon more conventional trade union officials twenty years earlier had not been unlike Larkin 's , saw the writing on the wall . At an extraordinary meeting of the Trades Union Congress at the Albert Hall on 9 December 1913 he was prompted to move a motion condemning " the unfair attacks which had been made upon British trade union officials " and affirming " their ability to negotiate an honourable settlement if assured of the effective support of all who are concerned in the Dublin dispute " .
Idiom: gather dust (used idiomatically: yes)
Last night the RAC condemned the plans . A spokesman said : ‘ The emphasis on businessmen , industry chiefs and environmentalists ignores the inherent dependence that ordinary citizens have on their cars.’ The Liberal Democrats ' Simon Hughes said the proposals were doomed to gather dust unless they were backed by Treasury money . Andrew Warren , director of the Association for the Conservation of Energy said : ‘ It is vital this consultation is swiftly followed by programmes to cut energy waste.’ Eastern Electricity , the largest regional power company , has signed a five - year deal with PowerGen , which it predicted would help safeguard miners ' jobs .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Two males are standing on a cliff edge and no one is jumping into the water
Idiom: to boot (used idiomatically: yes)
Jehana still had not spoken . Her maids were unfolding her cloak , and the page who held her boots was kneeling so that she could put her feet into them . Alexei offered a hand to her , and when she took it he stood , meeting her gaze steadily , while she stepped from slipper to boot first with one foot , and then with the other . The neck of her gown was a collar of spun gold , and the front was open , court style , to the level of her breast . Her touch was cold .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
who were ? aye down Edinburgh Road you said to down Edinburgh Road we 've never gone in this place , it 's a cook meat shop mm I have n't been in it since we 've been here and I said ooh there , they 're packed out and they had some beautiful stuff
Idiom: over the counter (used idiomatically: yes)
If you realize that you are especially susceptible at some particular time it is foolish to place yourself directly in temptation 's way . If you think you could well get out of control you can avoid triggering stimuli as much as possible . Do not go into cafés , browse in cake shops , linger over the chocolate counter , or bake a batch of biscuits . You will succumb to temptation , and probably more than once . Dieters do not typically break their diet by having just one small biscuit , or one square of chocolate , or one tiny cake .
Idiom: on the fly (used idiomatically: yes)
The calculation takes account of processing power and the speed of communication links , and then the request to start the thread is handed on to the processor with the least to do . This processor carries out exactly the same load balancing process until the thread finds a home , is translated by the chip 's translator and begins to run . All this talk of bits of code being pulled out of disk and cache , being translated on the fly and wandering around networks sounds horrendously slow , but appears in practice to be blindingly fast . A personal computer with a single 66MHz 80486 will render a broadcast quality , full screen , complex piece of ray - tracing in less than a minute . That is with no fancy graphics chips and using a standard VESA video adapter board .
Idiom: up to scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
It is probably going to be impossible to sum this amp up without re - introducing the age old arguments concerning transistor vs tube technology . Laney go to great lengths in their literature to point out that , while the two different technologies remain mutually exclusive , each has its good points and there is no reason why both should not co - exist . However , while the clean side of things is fine , the Laney 's distorted sounds fail to come up to scratch . I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion . Like I said , using a 1958 Strat , a £ 2,000 PRS and another Strat fitted with EMGs , we could n't get the 80R to produce what we consider to be a good distortion sound .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
' You knew her well . I came late . How was it she had heart even to look at me , as tormented as she was ? ' He wanted no answer , and in any case there could be none . But why should not one dying too soon for her years and too late by far for her comfort take pleasure in the sudden visitation of youth and freshness and beauty , however flawed , and all the more for its vulnerability and helplessness in a world none too kind to the weak .
Idiom: give someone the creeps (used idiomatically: yes)
She slammed a mental door shut on the harrowing thought . What she must do was concentrate on getting her memory back so that she could get home to them as soon as humanly possible . The prospect of being marooned on Gullholm for days with a Heathcliff bereft of his Cathy gave her the creeps . When Penry returned with her tea , looking withdrawn , as though he deeply regretted the mention of his wife , he put a plate of biscuits on the small table beside her . ‘ Eat a couple of those with the tea .
Idiom: cut loose (used idiomatically: yes)
Zamora in Los Angeles is like Murphy in Ireland , ‘ and most of them are just as tough’ said McCullough 's manager , Matt Tinley after a bout that brought out the best in Wayne . All three judges gave McCullough the nod . As usual , he fought with whirlwind ferocity , rocking the rugged little Mexican with blows to the head and body in the second round before cutting loose again early in the fourth . Zamora — he 's probably related to the guy Wayne beat on his Los Angeles debut five weeks ago ( who knows?)— hung in gallantly to weather the storm and was warmly embraced by McCullough at the finish . ‘ He was a solid little hombre,’ grinned Wayne .
Idiom: go by the board (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I used to have lunch there occasionally when I worked for Lewis & Arbuckle — marvellous grub , it was . And there was a separate restaurant for middle management , too . All that went by the board with the first wave of redundancies . Now there 's just the canteen.’ ‘ Well , it 's more democratic,’ said Robyn approvingly .
Idiom: call the tune (used idiomatically: yes)
The dispiriting memories of the seventies were fading . Mass unemployment had lost its old political potency . For the next four years , it was the suburban conquerors of southern Britain , not the decaying and dispirited north and west , who would pay the piper and call the tune . High Noon for the New Right - Resurgence or Retreat ? 1883–1989
Idiom: ten a penny (used idiomatically: yes)
They replace the fittings every three months , and at the moment there are cherubs , and angels in rich red , gold and ivory . There 's no music policy beyond the basic house / garage starting point , but Sasha , taking over at about 5 am , continues a mission to pick out the beautiful kick and rush in techno and its derivatives . Like a growing number of promoters , Geoff knows that keeping the style inside means keeping the ' riff - raff ' — the Ecstasy raconteurs , the ten - a - penny ravers , the baseball caps — out , and to this end he has called up that ghost of clubbing past , the door policy . The compulsory membership ( necessary for the midnight–7am licence ) sorts out some of the teds from the heads , but even with membership , hopefuls have to get past Geoff on the door . ' You can tell if their attitude 's right just by talking to them for a few minutes , ' he says .
Idiom: down the drain (used idiomatically: yes)
What can I do in this situation ? → If the ansaphone is still working it seems to imply that the company is still in existence — a good sign . If there 's no reply on the phone or at the door and the business has simply disappeared , you can very often be putting more good money down the drain by chasing it up . A call to your local Trading Standards Department may give you information about the state of the business and your next step . INSTRUCTION TAPES : POOR QUALITY
Idiom: feel the pinch (used idiomatically: yes)
Nupe said this was being done mainly by non - union personnel . Considerable sums of money have been collected from the public , whose support , according to the unions , shows no sign of abating . With no overtime being worked , even ambulance staff not suspended are beginning to feel the pinch as the dispute enters its 11th week . A campaign , supported by well known people outside the trade union movement , is planned for next week , separate from one already launched by the unions and another started yesterday by the TUC . Mr Norman Willis , the TUC general secretary , said its general council had agreed to make ‘ a very big drive’ to raise money quickly .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: no)
What did those sounds sound like ? Alright . Open your eyes everybody . What could those sounds sound like to you ? Gentle .
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: no)
But a look at the scenery is out of the question for the hard men over the top . The Vosges have presented real climbs , but these mountains do not compare with the haute - montagne , the really difficult mountain stages . It has been known for a tough roadman - sprinter to control the race in these big hills , not to lose much time on the Ballon , then rejoin the leading group , dominate them on the long downhill run into Mulhouse and win the stage . If such a rider — or two or three such riders — are at the head of the field on the descent then all bets will be recast . The Tour may now display a hero , but it 's also likely that this long and complicated race shelters a secret .