Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: see red (used idiomatically: no)
Face lapped by the water , Trent pushed his way upstream . The wind and the rain beating down on the river camouflaged his progress ; he could see the bridge now and he waited , watching . Louis ' men had set their roadblock the far side of the bridge from Trent 's observation point — upended ammunition boxes topped by poles cut from the jungle edge and a square white signboard on which Trent could see red letters made indecipherable by the angle of the board to his line of vision . The men wore rubber ponchos and had exchanged their black berets for jungle hats pulled well down against the rain so that he was unable to discern whether Miguelito was amongst their number . He scooped mud on to his forehead and cheeks and kept close in under the dripping leaf canopy cloaking the bank .
Idiom: cold feet (used idiomatically: yes)
The groom was getting cold feet just minutes before the wedding .
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
The Stream of the River Frome , Dorchester , 6×7¾″ ( 15.2×19.7 cm ) It is not possible to hold all this in the mind while actually painting however often you attempt this sort of subject . But direct observation does give you the colours and you do become more accurate , even though sunlight and shadows move so fast during the time it takes to paint such a scene that the particular arrangement that caught your eye in the first place has long since gone by the time the picture is finished ! Next month : Texture and pattern in oils John Newberry RWS
Idiom: couch potato (used idiomatically: yes)
And it is proven to lead to stronger , more solid bones , relieve tension , depression and insomnia . But getting fit takes time and commitment and if you 're no spring chicken , you have to take it easy along the way . The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and PR Sprays have teamed up to produce a new booklet targeted at people approaching retirement and who believe that retirement means a life as a couch potato in front of the telly . The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . ‘ The less the body is exercised , the weaker it becomes .
Idiom: get off the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
Israel was among the first parties to welcome the Arab League ’s reluctant decision to back Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ’s call for Arabs to give their blessing to the talks . It is clear that for Israeli Prime ~ Minister Binyamin ~ Netanyahu ’s right - wing government , the start of indirect talks without freezing settlement activities in the West ~ Bank and Jerusalem is a sort of victory . Just to remind the world of this , as the indirect talks were preparing to get off the ground , Israel ’s government approved a decision to break ground on 112 housing units in a settlement south of Bethlehem , and 1600 new settlement units in East ~ Jerusalem . For Palestinians , the return to talks , albeit indirect , is focused on one strategic issue : borders . The idea , a new one , aims at getting the Israelis and Palestinians to agree to the borders of the Palestinian state that both sides and the rest of the world have said is the way out of the decades - old conflict .
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
And this is how we 'll do it!’ Elinor listened carefully as Buzz leaned close to her ear and outlined her plan . ‘ I 'll go straight back to Eastbourne . I 'll buy two identical coats and hats in some bright colour . Tomorrow I 'll turn up here again at ten and tell the taxi to wait .
Idiom: get away with murder (used idiomatically: yes)
Daily Telegraph The supermarkets adopt bully - boy tactics . They are aggressively self - interested . They get away with murder because of their buying power . Gerry Harding , Chairman of the Organic Growers , West Wales Germs … a damn sight less dangerous than politicians . Ms T. Gorman , MP Two Archers actors to sue the BBC over party illness .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
During the 1987 election we set a carefully timed an organised arrival at a particular airport . The seventy strong press and media corps were in the rear of the Prime Minister 's plane and we had arranged a special area and platform for them in the terminal . That way they would get excellent pictures of Mrs Thatcher as she moved through the crowd . For this to work though , it was absolutely essential to get them to their spot a minute or two ahead of her , and to achieve that we had arranged for Mrs Thatcher to pause for a cup of coffee with the VIPs in a small room just outside the terminal door . The object was not to provide refreshment but to hold up the party for two or three minutes in order to get the press into position .
Idiom: serve someone right (used idiomatically: yes)
Maybe he 'd have enough to move up a deck — to buy a place in the Hundreds . Barycz sniffed thoughtfully , then laughed , recalling how Hammond had spat in the Director 's face . ' Served the bastard right … ' he said quietly . Yes . He was not a spiteful man , but he had enjoyed the sight of Spatz getting his deserts .
Idiom: on a roll (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes , of course I was scared occasionally . It does n't matter . Some of those waves at the bottom of the world — I mean you can tell by the look of them they have come from the beginnings of time and will roll right over you and go on rolling for ever . Afterwards … I suppose I have told myself I must be a lunatic .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's a bit corny , but they 've got the language down pat . You hear a slang word in a pub or shop in Manchester , you 'll hear it in Coronation Street three weeks later . They 're really on the ball , quite frightening sometimes . In EastEnders they 're still saying ‘ Oh , here 's that nice Jamaican bloke … here 's the yobbo with the short hair’ … ’ WH : ‘ Our track ‘ Eastenders’ is not about the TV show , it 's about …
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
Over six acts , ranging from 1951 to 1976 , we watch Crawford ringing in the changes from timid , guilt - ridden husband to an angry right - winger who votes for Barry Goldwater , finally to a mature widower , afraid of a lonely old age . Similarly , we are drawn into the life changes of the woman , played with affecting insight by Frances Cuka . Embracing the traumatic years of Vietnam , Kennedy , the Beatles and Watergate , Same Time , Next Year , by Bernard Slade , is a well - crafted comedy of social change and personal discovery that I predict will take root in the West End for long months to come . In January 1977 , amid rumours of a personality clash with Crawford , Frances Cuka left the production , exercising a clause in her contract that allowed her to go after four months . At the time she did not publicly disclose why , saying only , ‘ I am leaving for reasons which I can not say .
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: no)
Now come on , we need this room.’ She watched him shuffle away , her heart troubled . Had she done the right thing ? ‘ He looks really sad,’ Amy said . ‘ as if , this time , it really is too much.’
Idiom: by no stretch of the imagination (used idiomatically: yes)
In 1980 , John Lennon was murdered in Manhattan . Rich band together to escape home tax BY NO stretch of the imagination is the new Council Tax fairer than the Community Charge , which at least provided equal treatment . Restricting property assessments to just eight bands with a top level of , in effect , £ 320,000 is blatantly in favour of those privileged , wealthy occupiers whose homes have a value of anything between £ 650,000 to £ 20 million — and that includes many staunch Tory supporters . But I can see why the instigator of this new tax was reluctant to have higher bands .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
' For a start , unlike the first one , she 's not likely to get her head turned by some man . ' ' No , I 'll grant you that . Although , ' I point out with a wicked twinkle , which shows up as a flash of prismatic light on the edges of the glass , ' Rainbow has — recently — been entertaining the flicker of a wild fantasy about returning to religion . With a little bit of orchestration , and the application of a few time - tested psychic tricks , I will soon be ready to steer her into a shocking spur - of - the - moment theological and sexual conversion . It will dawn on her that an arranged marriage with some elderly ( and hopefully impotent ) Limnititzker may be the only key to the door of this lost and tantalising world . '
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Well , I daresay you 're right,’ she agreed . ‘ I 'll ask Cook to give you some cinnamon water,’ Miss Beard declared . ‘ That should do the trick!’ ‘ Thank you,’ Ruth said . ‘ I 'm sure it will.’
Idiom: in tandem (used idiomatically: yes)
It was a thank you to the 70 maintenance crew who have serviced the planes at the base for the last 22 years . The plane was the ultimate in air technology in the mid 60 's — designed to carry out low level bombing missions over the sea . But it took on an extra role during the Gulf War , when it was flown in tandem with Tornados . The pictures of bombing in Iraq which became familiar viewing during the Gulf War were taken from Buccaneers . The plane 's pinpoint laser accuracy kit highlighted the targets which the Tornado then bombed — with neither plane having to fly over the target too low .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: no)
But the excitement of adventure took over as we prepared Faith 's 1954 Tri - Pacer . Continental Airlines became one of our sponsors , offering tickets for my husband and I to go to London and to come home from Australia . I decided to go all the way . Not for a moment did I realise that we would be gone for almost three months , return home for nine months , and then spend one more month to finally finish in Australia ! Faith flew the Tri - Pacer from Texas to our airstrip in Chicago , where Tim and our local mechanic , Chuck Blanchard , did an extensive annual inspection and found it to be in good shape .
Idiom: off the record (used idiomatically: yes)
They promised never to tell why but it was , Summers says , Hoover 's blackmail . By now , Hoover was a politicians ' nightmare — perceived by some as the perfect cop , but known at close range for his rants , his sexual obsessions , his card index and his file cabinets which by now contained all the sins , real and imagined , of the political world . ‘ He 's rather a psycho,’ Robert Kennedy said , off the record , in 1964 . ‘ I think he 's become senile , and rather … frightening.’ But the Kennedys needed his special protection racket — to destroy phone company records when Marilyn Monroe committed suicide , for example , or to leak FBI reports that disproved stories suggesting John Kennedy , the good Catholic boy , was actually on his second marriage .
Idiom: hit the headlines (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ To some extent Blue Peter presenters are role models for young viewers,’ said Blue Peter editor Lewis Bronze , ‘ and we like them to have a girl or boy next door image.’ So BBC bosses have to be ultra careful about who they hire for the wholesome , long - running show . Unfortunately there have been presenters who became better known for hitting the headlines than their ability to turn washing up bottles into handy household objects . The biggest scandal in the show 's 34-year history was when it was revealed presenter Michael Sundin had once taken part in a raunchy gay sex show . Sad Michael , who died of liver cancer at 27 , was lashed with leather thongs in front of a packed audience at a West End Theatre just two days before joining the show .
Idiom: come to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
Conversely , though , if this Committee instructed groups as it well could that it wanted regular updates on the pay position of this County , and he had to put someone to work on researching them , it would cost you what like that ? Yes , Keith ? Yes , Chair , I , I mean I support the criteria that 's been laid out in five two there , I think it 's very important that we do actually , important that we do actually highlight the issue of low pay , and where it 's occurring , and in , in some way that then prevents companies , the , the unscrupulous type of companies that would come in to exploit that , from actually doing it , since most people would then be aware it , and I think that the last speaker 's just suggested that it 's an extremely cheap way of obtaining masses of information about Shropshire 's erm , earnings levels , and I think that 's very important that we are , and do come to grips with that , and clearly could n't afford officer time to be spent on , on merely collating that all the time . It 'd be a full time job I should say , possibly one or two posts and perhaps even more than that . Any further comment ?
Idiom: song and dance (used idiomatically: yes)
Well it 's a both a fortunate and unfortunate circumstance as a result of the by - out a sorry as a result of the floatation we cut a great many costs which reduced our taxable profits but at the same time we did actually pay some divides and we 've also pay some dividends here in last year anyway . The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five . What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in - flood and it is a one off in - flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . oh right Conversely had we had the profits last year which would have generated taxable profits then we would n't have needed to have done that , so that 's one reason why it was not disclosed on floatations at the time and floatation was not regarded as an asset .
Idiom: make a meal of (used idiomatically: yes)
Amongst the many things Sue and Colin have worked on , the walled garden is much improved with very pretty herbaceous borders and a lawn laid out with parasoled tables and chairs , where guests can relax with a drink on a warm summer 's evening . Bar snacks are served at lunchtime and in the evening , either in the bar or , weather permitting , in the garden . The menu is varied and if you choose to do so , you could make a full meal of it — for instance you could choose calamari , followed by Scottish salmon , followed by delicious fudge brownies . Easily Accessible : Hove is considered a rather more genteel town than Brighton . As the centre of the latter is only a half hour 's walk away , many of its attractions are the same ( and for these please see entry for Topp 's Hotel ) .
Idiom: see eye to eye (used idiomatically: yes)
It is now clear — and , in view of the final lines of his letter of 2 June , it was sufficiently plain by then — that he was writing under great pressure : which up to his last years was the condition in which he produced most of his work , including some of his best . Although writing under pressure is how many authors are best able to function , Eliot set himself so high a standard that his achievement , given its quantity , was the more remarkable . There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . We still cherished the idea of putting together a ‘ counterblast’ ; but I perceived in due course that we had begun to differ regarding the objective to be demolished . Still bearing in mind the essay in the humanist volume , I wrote to Eliot during the summer suggesting as a theme for his consideration one based on the statement : ‘ The problem of nationalism and the problem of disassociated personalities may turn out to be the same’ .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
Blackburn 1 , Sheff Utd 0 . IN the midst of this routine entertainment Alan Shearer stood out like a supernova . He did n't score , but too often we saddle our better strikers with ridiculous demands — as Mark Hughes knows only too well — and in any case with 20 on the board in four months Shearer is well placed to double his career record by the end of the season . He did n't score because United 's gallant John Pemberton got under his feet at the critical moments like a wad of chewing gum . That did n't stop him roving , teasing , passing and crossing that bit better than anyone else on the field , a constant delight to the eye .
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: yes)
Key words can be underlined in the same colour . Colour codes may be adopted to highlight information that belongs together . " The Origins of the English Civil War " , could be noted with political factors written or shaded in blue , religious factors in red , economic in green , and so forth . The ability to visualise areas on the page is an important revision technique and would be greatly helped by such codes . ( e ) ABBREVIATIONS — usually form a part of every student 's notes .
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
She believes that the sudden growth in women 's writing and the interest in issues relating to women was largely owing to the rise of the companionate marriage . The first sentence of Feminism in Eighteenth - Century England makes her position clear : ‘ A significant new interest in woman 's nature and position , caused in part by a radical change in attitudes toward marriage , appears in eighteenth - century literature . Women did find a new means of articulating their experiences by publishing , yet it is a mistake to believe that the huge growth in women 's writing went hand in hand with equally momentous shifts in attitudes toward marriage . Given that the ideal of the companionate marriage had existed before the eighteenth century , it must be recognized that women 's position within marriage was inferior to that of men . At marriage a woman 's legal identity was submerged in that of her husband .
Idiom: do the honours (used idiomatically: yes)
He smiled and came in from the terrace . She smiled back and looked away ; she was sure they had not been introduced . ' May I present myself , Mrs. Stevenson , since I am unable to find Madame Rodet to do me the honour ? ' He was foreign but not French . Dutch or German perhaps .
Idiom: in your face (used idiomatically: yes)
BASTI ‘ Spondey’(Way Cool ) Hardcore dance 12-inch from Norwich seven - piece who are a riveting live experience too . Where this wins over the dancefloor bandwagon jumpers is in its upfront and in your face approach rather than being docile . It also has an underlying pop sensibility , maintaining a steady path instead of wandering into banality . HEATHER FRITH ‘ These Walls EP’(BIG CAT )
Idiom: play for time (used idiomatically: yes)
With the recent mainstream success of a number of blues albums — John Lee Hooker 's , for instance , and Gary Moore 's — has there been any let - up in the record company pressure on Robert Cray to widen his commercial appeal ? ' Well , I know that a lot of musicians have that kind of pressure put on them , but I 've never really gotten any bullshit from anybody about what to do . We were playing for a long time before we ever had a deal , and when we eventually got signed by a big company , they pretty much took us for what we were . Of course , record companies are always going to want you to have a hit , but as far as what we do , they just have to look at our albums and try to pick out something they can exploit that way , after the event , as compared to trying to make us sit down and write a hit . I think that if we ever tried that , it would ruin our band .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: no)
The Matisse Server Engine will support up to hundreds of users in a client - server environment . The US National Institute of Standards & Technology has used it to increase performance of robotic factory operations . It is also in the running to handle a 100-user 5Gb card catalogue at the new French national library up against Sybase , Oracle and Adabas . Matisse guarantees consistency of data through two - phase locking for data update . Using object replication , it automatically generates duplicate versions of objects on multiple disks with negligible overheads .
Idiom: live and learn (used idiomatically: yes)
And did n't preach or sneer or wield a pen Or hoard his wealth or take the Scotch to bed . She 'd lived and learned and lived and learned but then There are so many kinds . Message
Idiom: behind bars (used idiomatically: yes)
The customs officer checks our passports , notes the absence of a visa in both the Mexicans ' . Having failed to obtain one means I 've forgotten my status as a foreigner in Europe , Latin American , undesirable . I need a visa and have failed to obtain one , Rosita likewise , and so they put us behind bars like prisoners . Keith , Sue and Brian have British passports and enter Boulogne without visas . Rosita and I are to be punished , stuck there with long faces , alongside our fellow wrong - doers , representations of swarthy people , black as tea taken without milk .
Idiom: bread and circuses (used idiomatically: yes)
Many of the trends in France , he believes , are equally observable in other European societies , and the price they will all pay will be political as well as cultural . After a decade of assiduous cultural promotion , he charges , France is less sure of itself , of its values and heritage , than it was before Lang and Mitterrand began . Instead of lyric participation in common cultural activity , the French have been numbed , divided and tranquillised by the cultural politics of bread and circuses . In France , Fumaroli 's polemic has been welcomed from the Right and dismissed by the Left . In other words , it has been incorporated within the parochial confines of party - political polemic .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office had rather greater concerns than Paul Fabian and his tiny High Commission and Residency on the seafront of Nuku'alofa . His was not a mission at the cutting edge of British diplomatic activity . Governments would not be swayed , nor would ministers tremble , on receipt of elegantly crafted and crisply sarcastic Notes written by him on the antique encryption machine which could be seen in a corner of the office , slowly rusting away in the hot , salt air . Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . The Fabians had indeed been up to Tafahi , about a month before .
Idiom: for the hell of it (used idiomatically: yes)
And occasionally she did n't even seem to be acting at all . Out of the cottage , away from Lowell , she became herself again . Slanging matches with Craddock just for the hell of it . Cold , fairly polite , differences of opinion with her grandfather . Jokes with the younger farm - hands who were wise enough not to go too far with the granddaughter of the boss .