Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: apples and oranges (used idiomatically: yes)
she get 's tummy trouble Mm , yeah . and they say not to eat apples and oranges , er , at one time they told you to eat the lot did n't they apples a day keep the doctor 's away . That 's right , that 's right See , I said it .
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: yes)
What is this shuffling ghoul you present to me ? Do you desire to bring laughter to my breakfast table?’ Tavalouze 's light voice came from behind Lucien ' s back . ‘ by no means , my lord . Laughter at breakfast is bad for the digestion .
Idiom: in the same breath (used idiomatically: yes)
It was an attempt to cultivate an attitude of mind that recognised that this intelligence — however glorious — had its limitations when it was confronted with the ineffable and ultimate reality . Hence their wariness of any human concepts about God which threatened to become a new idolatry that could be mistaken for the reality itself . Thus one might , said Dionysius , say that God was ‘ good’ but it was necessary to qualify this in the same breath : he was Goodness itself but he was not ‘ good’in the limited way that human beings understood this quality . The Greeks found this agnostic approach yielded a sense of presence and bliss that transfigured their lives : it gave them the discipline to apprehend a reality infinitely greater than they could conceive , even though at the same time its absence was acutely felt . This Greek venture shows the creative nature of the religious experience .
Idiom: with knobs on (used idiomatically: yes)
Although certainly no fan of Guns N'Roses and their offensive lyrics , I am pleased that he has spoken about the still largely - hidden subject of male sexual assault . It is important that men feel able to discuss this issue and not experience ridicule and smug responses from so - called enlightened magazines such as yours . Comments such as‘a history of childhood abuse is both hip and horrible , the rock'n'roll statement with knobs on’ do not encourage other men to discuss the issue , nor do they treat this subject with the seriousness it deserves . Male survivors of abuse and our society in general pay a high price for the current silence . Correction The ‘ Utsly - Gtsly chair’ shown in October 's Hype was not , as we were told , the work of ‘ furniture tailor’Yoichi Nakamura .
Idiom: part of the furniture (used idiomatically: yes)
It is this being , the power behind the throne who acts as the unifying force of all the ' lesser ' deities , who would more appropriately be described as the God of Hinduism . in or out of the world ? The second supposed difference between the Near Eastern and the Indian religious traditions was that the former believe that God is separate from the world , whilst the latter make God or the gods a part of the world 's spiritual furniture . In this area of discussion too there may be a closer theistic structure between the two religious groupings than we are often led to believe . Take , for instance , the Near Eastern religions of Judaism , Christianity and Islam .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
This incredible sense of duty should be considered against the average sortie life of aircrew in the Command which was never higher than 9.2 and , at one time , as low as eight sorties per crew . Whilst 100 bomber sorties was quite normal in PFF Mosquitos , particularly in the OBOE squadrons , many " heavy bomber barons " did achieve over 100 sorties , and all in Western Europe . Some very bad - luck cases come to mind of apparently indestructible characters who were chopped on the last few sorties — 97th or 98th . Two that seemed particularly sad cases were Sqn Ldr " Danny " Everett DSO . DFC .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ And that 's assuming the machine is programmed not to double back along the same path . A maze consisting of just three such junctions would have — well , hundred and hundreds of routes . You get the picture.’ ‘ Exponential numbers . You could give a computer quite a headache with an NP - complete puzzle.’
Idiom: bits and bobs (used idiomatically: yes)
They had also established contact with 40 men under Major Chisholm who were organising a base for patrols from Memo , but contact had not yet been made with Australia , the powerful radio stations on the mainland 's north coast drowning out signals from Timor . However , Signalman Lovelace of Sparrow Force was to build a remarkably powerful transmitter , even though he had neither electrical testing nor other meters . This ‘ Winnie the War Winner’ was made from two 109-sets , parts from the plantation manager 's receiver collected by Bill Baldwin , and bits and bobs laid out in a contraption of wires and valves around a room 10 feet square ( 3m&sup2 ; ) . Batteries were charged by native power turning a four - foot wooden wheel geared to a car 's generator , a minor miracle of improvisation designed by Sousa Santos . Through this contact with Australia the nature of the guerrilla operations changed to a role foreseen by Collin Gubbins and Major Holland in 1938 : acting in concert with the plans for an army 's main campaign .
Idiom: hard cheese (used idiomatically: yes)
True , if I 'm , if I know I want , might want something extra , I , I , stick a fiver in , this pocket Yeah . If I loose it well , it 's , hard cheese . Yeah . It 's better than er
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: no)
Handpumps provide the classic example of what can go wrong . Until recently , most government handpump schemes had next to no provision for maintenance . Bearing in mind that in many villages there is little chance of finding even a monkey wrench , it is easy to see why speedy repairs are often impossible . In any case , with most handpump maintenance , workers need a rig to lift the pump head off its base . And travelling maintenance crews may not turn up from one year to the next because of the immense areas they have to cover .
Idiom: point the finger (used idiomatically: yes)
First , they generated a witch hunt inside the palace to discover my sources . Long experience had told me that this was to be expected . Prince Charles 's new private secretary , Commander Richard Aylard pored over the articles looking for clues while the Queen 's private secretary , Sir Robert Fellowes pointed the finger at the staff inside Kensington Palace . A terse phone call from Arthur Edwards , a long - serving photographer from The Sun newspaper , whose avuncular manner belies the fact that he has excellent sources inside the royal world , reinforced the message . ‘ I did n't believe that Jimmy Savile stuff you wrote on Sunday,’ he said .
Idiom: time will tell (used idiomatically: yes)
The Church of England is behind the Baptist Union in halting its decline : the Baptists turned the corner between 1980 and 1985 , and thereafter saw a slight growth in membership . Figures released for 1990 show , for the first time since the second world war , a very slight increase in Church of England membership , as well as an increase in those accepted for ordination . Time will tell whether this check in the decline will change into significant growth . Part of the answer will lie in the ability of church planting parishes to continue to grow beyond their boundaries . This is the first difficulty confronting the growing Church of England church today .
Idiom: grind to a halt (used idiomatically: yes)
The Williams locked its rear wheels , spun and stalled on the racing line — just out of the sight of those following . Two cars managed to avoid him , but Roberto Moreno , holding a steady fourth in the Benetton , ran straight into the front of the Williams , doing serious damage to both . The incident occurred on lap 50 , by which time Mansell had already ground to a halt with no gears . All of the Goodyear teams had chosen the softest race tyre available in the hope that the could run non - stop . Prost , 27secs behind Senna , changed tyres on lap 45 and the news was quickly relayed to Senna .
Idiom: wear the trousers (used idiomatically: no)
THRILLS BELIEVE IT OR NOT ! MARTI PELLOW of WET WET WET may have a world - famous grin — but , unbeknownst to his legions of fans , they are not his real teeth ! CARTER have not worn long trousers since March 1989 . Due to a translator 's error , the new PAUL WELLER album is being advertised as ' Usual Old Jazzy Bollocks ' in Japan . GERRY RAFFERTY has threatened to kill anyone who buys Undercover 's version of ' Baker Street ' .
Idiom: scream blue murder (used idiomatically: yes)
His sky - blue eyes , ringed with black liner , were hard as coloured beads . ‘ It 's not the lion I fear,’ she cried , ‘ but the jackal’ , and although she was referring to Rufio , not Caesar , it was St Ives she confronted . Glancing at those muscular knees , ruddy beneath the hem of his pleated tunic , she made up her mind that if he ever attempted to spank her again she would scream blue murder . He caught the drift of her thoughts , she could tell . A conqueror 's laugh should have accompanied his following line of ‘ Brave boy’ , but all he could manage was a smile .
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: no)
Yeah . we 'll deal with you for tool side then we 'll be lot happier . We have a a weird system how it works , and I 've got my hands tied behind my back erm if you 're on with fasteners you ca n't use Power Tools . No . Until I break free , and go into my unit .
Idiom: true blue (used idiomatically: yes)
But by the end of the year the ' green bill ' had been quietly dropped and the environmental ' network'had vanished into a general belief in the need for good , informal relations with Friends of the Earth and other environmental organizations . It was no longer necessary to upstage the Green Party ; and it was becoming harder , too , to find a straightforward , easily defined green issue on which to challenge the Tories . Mrs Thatcher had established her environmentalist credentials in several speeches and had replaced the true - blue but ungreen Nicholas Ridley with the practically viridescent Chris Patten as Environment Secretary . Labour was obliged to match Patten with Bryan Gould : ' I would agree that Thatcher and Patten understand global warming , ' said Gould 's environmental researcher and adviser , Nigel Stanley . ' Thatcher 's speech to the UN ( 8 November 1989 ) was very effective .
Idiom: off the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
The new giant tractor has brought a welcome boost in power to West End Farm 's farming and contracting businesses and has become something of a local landmark . It has covered 1000 ha ( 2,500 acres ) of silaging work and nothing — pto apart — has had to be modified . Fuel consumption is gratifyingly low thanks to the low degree of strain on the big engine — 11.2 litres / ha ( 1gal / acre ) of diesel on silage work compared to 22 litres / ha ( 2gal / acre ) when the job was done by an off - the - shelf 110hp tractor . It has also allowed him to boost outputs with the Mengele forager , an important benefit for a contractor needing to cover as many acres in a year as possible . ' You would need a big self - propelled forager to get bigger workrates then we get with this , ' he adds .
Idiom: now or never (used idiomatically: yes)
But then there was a knock on the door , the messenger unlocked it and stuck his head in , asking : ‘ Is it all right for coffee now , sir?’ Sladen nodded , maybe a little relieved . ‘ Since it would be now or never , yes , it 's all right now.’ The meeting collapsed into muttering groups . The coffee lady , in a green nylon uniform , pushed in her trolley and began handing out ready - filled cups .
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: yes)
Unikix , installed in only six sites in the US although available over there since late 1990 ( due to a failure by Unicorn to market the product effectively , says Bull ) , is a development environment and transaction processing environment for Cobol - based applications developed to run under CICS on IBM mainframes . It provides the capability to implement CICS applications for various Unix environments without source modification , and enables the development of new applications to run on both IBM mainframes and Unix systems . The usefulness of having transaction processing applications down on the workstation , the company says , is to bring for example sales order processing information closer to the salesperson , who can play around with the data in a windows - based environment , oblivious to the complex processing going on behind the scenes . Unikix currently supports Pyramid , Sun , Bull and IBM RS/6000 Unix workstations ; further implementations will be directed by demand , says Bull 's UK systems integration director Phillip Crawford — a Hewlett - Packard version being the next likely port . Bull says it has invested heavily in getting the product up to date .
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: yes)
He survived but was inevitably captured . Two days of forced marching without food towards a prisoner - of - war camp was too much for this free spirit from Baldersdale and he escaped . He was on the run for forty - three days , sheltering for part of the time in a cornfield , being fed occasionally by sympathetic French farmers , but was hunted down and sent to captivity in Belgium . They did not keep him long , however , and this time he made off with a companion and even had the nerve to work for three months on a French farm before starting a marathon trek across the entire length of France . He and his fellow escapee had been told that if they could get to Marseilles , then in unoccupied France , they stood a good chance of finding a ship bound for England .
Idiom: night and day (used idiomatically: yes)
And of course they did n't hire with them . So I bought his combine from him . So I hired it out to people and work night and day when the weather was bonny , combining their barley and that . And then I bought another one and then I bought a third one so that I had three combines but there were no other combines on Orkney at all . That was the first of the combines .
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: yes)
Thus , the above provision could be worded as : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract the Seller may exercise any of the following rights , either alone or in any combination:(a ) terminate the contract ( b ) recover goods already delivered ( c ) retain all payments already made . 3 Checking the draft It goes without saying that the draft should be checked carefully . If possible it is probably helpful to leave the draft for a time , so that the drafter can return to it later and view it from a more detached position . Even better , if possible , get someone else to read it and comment on it .
Idiom: pick up the tab (used idiomatically: yes)
So I let them think it and played the game.’ He was arrested and spent twelve hours in Clark County jail . His sentence was terminated when Sahara officials bailed him out and said they would pick up the tab for the room but he would have to pay for his food and drink himself . Perhaps , when people have expressed negative views of Dustin 's behaviour and personality , we can charitably assume that his Döppelgänger , Harvey Pepper , has been at work again . A few years later , a homosexual friend of Anne 's said that he had come across a man who looked like Dustin , who hung out in gay bars , telling everyone he was Dustin Hoffman .
Idiom: in the can (used idiomatically: yes)
Chestnuts are traditionally used in Christmas stuffings and purées , but they also feature in desserts such as the classic French festive roulade Bûche de Noël . You can buy sweetened whole chestnuts and purés as well as fresh chestnuts . However , the latter are time - consuming to peel , so you may prefer ready - peeled chestnuts , available in cans or vacuum packs . Fruitful harvest The festive season 's finest fruit includes clementines , satsumas , tangerines and mandarins , figs , dates and cranberries .
Idiom: strike a chord (used idiomatically: no)
There were just hardboard partitions between the rehearsal rooms — cubicles really . Nothing substantial enough to stop the noise going straight downstairs into the bars Every time we struck a chord people would come tearing up from the bar to tell us to turn that fucking racket down . And we 'd say , we 're paying good money for this . Nothing really constructive got done there But it was where we first had a serious go at turning ourselves into a real band .
Idiom: ride roughshod over (used idiomatically: yes)
Order , order order . I think we 've had quite sufficient of that , let 's get back to the European boundaries , Mr Roderick Morgan . Sir , i it was a terrible brief point about clad in jodhpurs , riding boots and hacking jacket but all the point that I was going to make that I 've heard about riding roughshod over Europe but Mr Deputy Speaker this is ridiculous , I the er the honourable The honourable gentleman trying my patience now please get back to the boundaries of the . Point of order , Mr Bill Cash .
Idiom: cut both ways (used idiomatically: yes)
The Devil 's stock in trade is the world of half . truths and half - lies where the half - lie masquerades as the whole truth . But a sword like this will cut both ways . If doubt can be turned destructively against truth so that it is dismissed as error , doubt can also be used constructively to prosecute error disguised as . truth .
Idiom: thick and fast (used idiomatically: yes)
Azharuddin , the only man apart from the openers to reach double figures in the second - innings debacle , later summed up his team 's performance succinctly : ‘ Crap.’ Craig McDermott , who took 31 wickets in the five Tests , was named Player of the Series DAVID FRITH WRITES : Records and milestones come thick and fast . We all like to feel we have been witness to something out of the ordinary , preferably unique , and that is why the unprecedented sight of 33 catches in a Test match was titillating . The marks set by Healy , Srikkanth , McDermott , Whitney and umpire Crafter were all pleasurable .
Idiom: as a rule (used idiomatically: yes)
That is no longer the case and the position , the author would suggest , is governed by the statement of Lord Reed in Vesty v IRC 31 TC 1 at 120 where he states : I think that Chamberlain 's case shows that the most profitable course to follow is to determine what was the property comprised in the settlement , and that the way to find the property is to look for property charged with rights in favour of beneficiaries . I do not think that any hard and fast rule is laid down in Chamberlain 's case . The ingenuity of those who devise those schemes is such that it might be rash to say that property could never be comprised in the settlement unless it is charged with rights in favour of others , but I think that as a general rule this must now be the test . There is thus a slight caveat on the point but subject to exceptional circumstances it is felt that taxpayers can now safely assume that income arising in an underlying company which is owned by the overseas trust can not be caught by Part XV of TA 1988 . Mr X is resident , ordinarily resident and domiciled in the United Kingdom .
Idiom: have a mountain to climb (used idiomatically: yes)
Rumours that Denis Smith was taking over were rife at the press conference in the afternoon , but Corden announced he was giving the job to youth team coach Hankin . ‘ Gray would still have been in a job if we had won at Torquay,’ said Corden , ‘ but it was a diabolical performance and we felt something had to be done.’ A grateful Hankin said : ‘ We have a mountain to climb , but I am looking forward to the challenge.’ Mick Tait was appointed number two . The players responded against fellow strugglers Chester .
Idiom: second nature (used idiomatically: yes)
Peter McGaffin , director of Tidy Northern Ireland , said the campaign is an effective way of getting the message across to owners that they must clear up after their dogs . ‘ That way everyone will benefit from cleaner streets , playing fields , parks and beaches . ‘ The hope is that ‘ poop scooping’ will become second nature to dog owners,’he said . Dog faeces can cause 30 diseases in humans , the most serious of which is the worm infestation toxocariasis . In Britain , one child a week goes blind in one eye from toxocariasis while a further one - in - seven may suffer stomach aches , pneumonia , liver disease and allergies such as asthma , according to surveys .
Idiom: neck and neck (used idiomatically: yes)
Vázquez 's term ends in March 2010 . He can not run again and the looming presidential election promises to be close . Indeed , despite the government 's successes , there could be a change , as the Partido ~ Nacional of the center - right bloc is now running neck - and - neck with the FA . In the FA primaries , José ~ Mujica won the presidential nomination by defying Vázquez and placing himself farther to the left than his rival , Danilo ~ Astori , who represented a continuation of the present administration . Mujica has a populist profile , based on charisma , anti - establishment stances and an appeal to the poor , which was strengthened by his personal traits and his lineage as a member of the 1960s Tupamaros guerrilla movement , as well as his affinity for the ruling Kirchners of Argentina and the " Bolivarian " left .
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: yes)
Simon Kidd 's parafoil being tested on the Isle of Wight . The line , and other precautions It almost goes without saying that the camera lifter does not have to soar to great heights , and it will perforce have to fly in a steady breeze of 10 knots or more . So play safe — use a braided line of limited stretch , say Dacron , and with an added safety factor of high breaking strain . Greens suggest 170 kilo ( 3751 b ) line for their ST3 and this is sound advice for a 2.75sq.m ( 30sq.ft ) kite and attendant dangling weights .
Idiom: on the money (used idiomatically: yes)
Moving on to the row on paragraph eight , again all three groups are agreed er on this except with one I think exception of a certain group . Er no one exception , it is to not allow appropriate expenditure on section eleven . Erm both the Labour and the Liberal parties , erm think it 's extremely important that we maintain this provision for the curriculum pupils who might wish to have petition early and we will maintain in full so the current level of provision under section eleven will be May next year , which puts a large sum on the money into that , this is growth in expenditure , the making up of government cuts , increasing the money we 're spending , it 's not increasing service , it 's simply continuing the current current policies but it will continue as it is now . Er against the cost of government changes so this last part of this budget is actually the cost of making up for government cuts and section of and we 're disappointed that Conservatives decided to cut the section they were funding for next year . I do n't know how much they 're cutting it , but the figures change again today no doubt .
Idiom: on the horn (used idiomatically: yes)
In the first instance , it is probably simpler , and in evolutionary terms truer , to deal with them as separate . One goddess was concerned with fertility and procreation ; the dove , proverbially the most amorous of birds , was her symbol . She is often shown with doves perching on her ; sometimes birds are shown perched on sacral horns or on a double - axe , as if to suggest the invisible presence of the goddess . Another and possibly separate goddess was concerned with renewal and the central rites of the vegetation cycle . Since the goddess herself was not permitted to die , the annual death and rebirth were acted out by a young male Year - spirit , a small and inferior deity who took the roles of son and consort , and represented the important principle of discontinuity in nature .