Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: go native (used idiomatically: yes)
IBM also strengthened its position in the booming peripherals sector ; it developed various different networking systems . IBM had been a pioneer of the global factory . In major foreign markets Japan , Germany , France and Britain — the policy was to go native to the extent of roughly matching local production and local sales . IBM mainframes were made in three locations in the world — Poughkeepsie in New York State , Yasu in Japan and Montpellier in France : By 1984 IBM had fifteen factories in Europe ( two in England , one in Sweden , one in Holland , four in Germany , four in France , two in Italy and one in Spain ) .
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
When the demented Mrs MacDonald had disappeared , Maggie put a hand to her forehead and gently rubbed it . She then became aware that she was shaking all over . A little further on a surprisingly clean rag doll caught her eye , which she recognized . Eileen Riddrie had proudly shown it to her the previous week , as she had been given it that very day for her birthday . She next came upon the mud - covered carcass of a sheep , and another of a Friesian cow .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: yes)
And where defining requirements is difficult what tends to happen is that we do n't bother . Now this is where I think the Japanese score dramatically , they spend many many hours defining things which we say it 's not worth the effort to define . And if we put a little bit more effort into specifying requirements more tightly , then there 'd be less argument at the end of the day as to whether we 've done a good job or a bad job . And I S O Nine Thousand and quality management is very much about trying because it is , it is hard work and we ca n't necessarily succeed i i in every situation . But it 's about trying to define requirements to the , to the best erm level and best degree .
Idiom: big hitter (used idiomatically: yes)
Seles was joined in the semi - final by fellow - American Martina Navratilova who beat Spain 's Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 6–1 , 2–6 , 6–2 . Meanwhile , Jim Courier was last night hanging on to his world No 1 ranking and survival in the $ 2.5 m IBM ATP World Championships by his finger tips . He beat fellow American and world No 5 Michael Chang 7–5 , 6–2 , but had to wait for the result of the final round robin match in his group between big - hitters Goran Ivanisevic and Richard Krajicek to see if he would get through to the semi - finals of this last ranking competition of the year . And he was waiting for the final match in the other group between Stefan Edberg and Boris Becker to see if his No 1 ranking could be threatened . If Edberg wins and goes on to win the final , the London - based Swede will regain the top spot Courier has held for all but six weeks of this year .
Idiom: over your head (used idiomatically: yes)
The last thing I thought I would talk about was my christian beliefs why I am here today why I am a doctor and what God means to me . Being brought up in a christian home is n't enough to make you a christian . You can you go to church every Sunday , sing the choruses or the hymns , listen to what the man has to say or the lady has to say at the front , and it can just go over your head and it can mean nothing to you apart from something that you believe might be true . But what you have to do is actually realize that Jesus died for you you have to be sorry for all the things that you 've done wrong and you need to ask him to come into your life and to be your own saviour . And that means that from then on your life is n't your own , you do n't do what you want to do , you do what you believe God is telling you to do and you try to live by what the bible says and you pray about any important decision you make and then , when God has shown you what the right thing is to do , even when you 're going through very hard times , you know that you 're there because that 's where God wants you to be and that gives you faith to carry on .
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: yes)
His eyes are a little protuberant , and his lips are set in a faint smile , so that as he leans forward against the wheel , gazing straight ahead through the windscreen , he seems to be waiting for the green light with eagerness . In fact the light has been green for some time already . Howard Baker ( that is his name ) is sitting in front of a green light waiting for a green light because he is thinking . He is wondering : whether he is adequately insured ;
Idiom: around the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
Voice over First Chipping Norton , then the world , and they 're already picking up bookings . But they hope it wo n't take too long or they 'll be rocking around the grandfather clock . A party 's underway to celebrate the birthdays of James , Stuart , Jayne , Nichola , Hannah and Gary Coleman . The sextuplets are seven today and they 've been celebrating with cakes , presents and party games .
Idiom: by the seat of your pants (used idiomatically: yes)
Old habits die hard erm Yes it 's easier said than done just going in and sort of lying by the seat of your pants . And you can also get lost even if you do say the script because I said to Roger I , I 've Er
Idiom: fall by the wayside (used idiomatically: yes)
The poor , when portrayed , were usually ‘ rescued ’ or adopted somehow , alternatively they turned out to be long lost daughters of land-owners , princes , or millionaires , stolen at birth by gypsies . Over the years , many of these papers have dropped in popularity , possibly because of their unwillingness to change their stories . As a result , many of them have fallen by the wayside or have been merged . THE COMICS BUNTY January 15 1983 age 7–12 approx 14p
Idiom: fall on deaf ears (used idiomatically: no)
Around the turn of the century , oralism was at its most fervent in British schools for the deaf while at the same time many deaf people were extremely worried by the lack of education being given . Time which might have been devoted to instructing deaf children in the acquisition of English grammar , arithmetic and other school subjects was , in the view of many leading deaf people including deaf businessmen like A.J.Wilson and George Edward , being curtailed in order to try and give deaf children speech training . Even Abraham Farrar , pointed out by oralists as the most exalted example of their method of teaching , showed concern that oralism was being carried to too great an extreme at the expense of education but this concern fell on ‘ deaf’ ears of those in teaching establishments though perhaps not that of Dr. Eichholz the Government inspector for the overseeing of deaf education , as the two extracts opposite taken from the logbook of the Hugh Bell School , Middlesbrough , show . Two schools for the deaf which were opened in the 1900s were both from the start to establish a pure oralist tradition . These were the Anerley Deaf School in London , founded in 1902 , and the Thomasson Memorial School for the Deaf , Bolton , founded in 1907 .
Idiom: make a clean break (used idiomatically: yes)
Even the Association headquarters was worth less than its mortgage . He agrees that the Conservative party preaches financial prudence and this is n't the kind of thing it should doing . And this year the association has tried to make a clean break from the past . An item listed as extraordinary effectively writes out of the accounts a twenty three thousand pound loan … given to this man to help buy a house . Victor ( BERJ ) Burge was the constituency agent … , . until he developed cancer .
Idiom: pull a fast one (used idiomatically: yes)
Will you keep me company on Tuesday ? It 'll be a nice change for you.’ It would have been easy to claim some other appointment , or a practice session with Jack , but the situation intrigued me and I was particularly happy at the thought of pulling a fast one over the shrewd and imperturbable Inspector Drew . ‘ OK Toby , you 're on . I 'll see you later at the course.’
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
Refighting the battles of their own youth , they have tried to fix China 's eyes firmly on the past . The party may claim to be in the vanguard of history , but its clock seems to have stopped in the 1950s . Propaganda campaigns , class struggle , the cult of the model worker and even the almost evangelical rhetoric of the cold war are all back with a vengeance . Television and newspapers no longer praise model entrepreneurs but heroic labourers such as Zhang Fuxin , praised for throwing himself into a pit of polluted mud to retrieve a piece of equipment . People are told that Mr Zhang was so dedicated that he cut short his honeymoon to return to work , telling his new wife : ‘ One day without hearing the sound of the drill , my heart is heavy .
Idiom: beg the question (used idiomatically: yes)
But there must be a point beyond which they can not go — some remaining ' self ' to which social scientists appeal . As this self is debated and discussed , the individualist sometimes seems to be demanding that a ceteris paribus clause should be included in all explanations of social phenomena — a murmured oath of loyalty to the freedom of the will along the lines of ' … and the individuals involved could have done otherwise ' . Such a clause would not bring the dispute between holists and individualists any nearer to a solution , however , since it begs the very question at issue . Nor would the dispute be of any great interest , because the explanatory role allotted to individual autonomy is so minimal . In order to sustain a more robust disagreement , individualist theorists must contend that human autonomy makes a substantial difference to the explanation of action , and stands in the way of the determinist account supposedly favoured by holists .
Idiom: to the letter (used idiomatically: yes)
Date : Mon , 8 Nov 93 15:01:31 GMT my mailing system was down over the weekend and I did not receive any mail . If anyone replied to my letter concerning Rangers and Leeds , please write again . PS Two good wins this weekend for the boys — leeds 4–1 and rangers 2–0 Colin
Idiom: place in the sun (used idiomatically: yes)
This is a polite way of saying that recruitment normally causes chaos in the personnel department . Problems For example , if an advert is placed in The Sun for construction supervisors , it may well produce 500 replies within a couple of days . All these people need to have application forms sent to them . When the forms are returned , they must be sent to various people within the company , and regret letters or invitations to attend an interview must then be issued .
Idiom: under the microscope (used idiomatically: yes)
This dissolves the zona and gently fixes the eggs . Up to this stage , the dish or watch glass containing the eggs must be replaced for each change of solution . Observation of all steps is carried out under the dissecting microscope . ( viii ) Five minutes after placing eggs in the above solution , suck up a single egg , together with a small drop of fixative , into a Spemann pipette with a fine point , then expel within a circle ( marked on the reverse side ) on a grease - free slide . While the fixative spreads , the egg sticks to the slide near the tip of the pipette .
Idiom: catch fire (used idiomatically: no)
Incidentally , despite these defeats in war , the Egyptians did not weaken in their worship of the cat . We know from the observations of Herodotus nearly a century later that they were still treating the animal with the utmost respect . He reported that if a house caught fire nobody attempted to put it out because they were all concentrating on protecting the cats , forming up in lines to prevent the panic - stricken animals from running into the flames and burning themselves . And whenever a cat died he noted that Egyptians all went into deep mourning and shaved off their eyebrows as a sign of their distress . So it is little wonder that the Persians found the cat an invaluable ally even at the height of battle .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
" I still do n't like it , " he said seven days later , as the tough little mountain ponies carried them down the winding road .
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
GKR 's growth in terms of fee income and number of consultants , although showing modest progress in the 1970s , did not take off dramatically in this particular decade . The rate of entry of new firms in executive search was increasing and the business was becoming more competitive , but there was not yet the demand to support them all . However , GKR began to flourish in the early 1980s , not so much in financial services as across the board in industry . It is one of the very few search firms whose results are published in Kompass , which reveals not only the firm 's rapid rise in turnover but a striking rate of return on capital employed , indicating the potentially very profitable nature of the headhunting business . From August 1982 to August 1984 , GKR 's turnover increased from £ 963000 to £ 2.5 m . , and profits from £ 46000 to £ 439000 .
Idiom: fly a kite (used idiomatically: no)
The implications of the book 's theory is that Israeli claims to statehood in Palestine are founded upon a false assumption and that the Jewish homeland lies just down the road from Mecca . It is not just a can of worms that the professor has been a digging . He is flying a kite — and good luck to him , but I am sure like me you will not be surprised to find that his kite blows away and is covered by the sands of time . I have often suspected that by raking through the telephone directory according to a number code , you could extract a secret message . Graffiti such as‘Kilroy was here’ may be interpreted by future scholars to mean that Bonnie Prince Charlie stopped there .
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
He was ordered to pay compensation of £ 40 to Mrs Fawcett , who sustained a back injury and fined £ 50 for the second assault . Bound over : Brothers Ernest and Michael Robinson of Thompson Grove , Hartlepool , were bound over in the sum of £ 100 to keep the peace for six months after a fight with another man in York Road . The brothers , aged 24 and 27 , agreed to be bound over after denying the offence . Man fined :
Idiom: get a grip (used idiomatically: no)
The third part is perhaps something that erm , we find a little more difficult , I do found that er number two , number three and number four if you were n't careful blends very much into one another and actually then part three as far as I 'm concerned actually putting across the benefits is really the main part I think and that really is putting into everyday English what we know as professionals as in technical terms , cos if you go and talk to somebody whatever it is , they have n't got a clue we have , we talk about it all the time and I think the biggest criticism of the insurance industry as a whole is the fact that you do n't talk to people in English and that 's why it 's got such a foot in the door and I think the third part for me really is the most important part of the sales process , relating our cock - ups in English , the benefits the client . That really is I think er the part that I erm are most useful in those . I sold three and one of the reasons why and I think we got tremendous opportunity to develop an enormous part by just going in and speaking to people to explain to and they can relate to write lots and lots of and you can get a good grip we wo n't do it overnight , it is something you have got to develop . Th that , that to me is the most important part of . not supposed to laugh always got to close people down and make sure we do get the order .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Digital was always regarded in Galway with the same respect and awe as Cinderella had for her fairy godmother . The model plant , model workers who did n't need a union , jobs for life … but this fairy godmother forgot all about the happy ending . The 450,000sq ft factory on the edge of the world famous Ballybrit racecourse — Digital sponsored the richest race in the summer festival — had an influence which permeated into every corner of life in the city . In human terms the loss adds up to 800 jobs in Digital and 2,000 more depending directly on orders , supplies and service . In financial terms , the loss is estimated at £ 100 million per annum to the Irish economy .
Idiom: out of the box (used idiomatically: yes)
Example Teacher : Can you make a necklace the same as mine?(3 red , 3 green , 3 yellow , 3 blue ) Kelly ( 4.4 ) looked at it and silently counted the three red beads , took three out of the box and threaded them ; the same with the green beads . When she came to the yellow and blue ones , she did not need to count the beads on the teacher 's necklace , but simply picked up three together with one hand and threaded them . The finished necklace looked the same as the teacher 's in spite of constant interruptions and distractions .
Idiom: give someone the slip (used idiomatically: yes)
She 'd have watched through the seasons — how many Novembers , how many Junes?— and noted the easy stairwell of living wood , raggy in autumn , then winter - bare and ridged with snow . Maybe . Somewhere and somehow she 'd given them the slip , shinned down the mat of Virginia creeper in the darkness and scuttled across the lawn to hide . Maybe . More likely she just ran into the tree and panicked as the sun threatened to rise like a spotlight and expose her .
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: yes)
Ninety small firms are operating in the Brunswick Industrial Park , a marina now graces the once derelict docks and about 100 low income houses for rent have been built and over 200 flats for sale at the top end of the Merseyside housing market developed and sold . A number of issues , however , remain unresolved . Many of the shops and restaurants in the Albert Dock operate with below market rents and service charges and their future remains uncertain as outgoings rise to market levels . Equally , the International Garden Festival site , which successfully attracted visitors in the initial year on a subsidised basis , has since remained problematic ( Parkinson and Evans , 1990 ) . Bankruptcy hit a private operator in 1985 and MDC continues to have difficulty attracting further developers to manage the site .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
In the area I live , off Lodge Lane , they are even growing on peoples ' doorsteps . Maybe they think they are flowers ! Is n't it time the council got to grips with this problem ? Ignorance The new Toxic Shock Syndrome Information Service aims to put that ignorance right .
Idiom: at a pinch (used idiomatically: yes)
No call to go around giving them poisoned food.’ In fact the nomes got on rather well with the local rats , probably because their leader was Bobo , who had been a pet of Angalo 's when they lived in the Store . The two species treated each other with the distant friendliness of creatures who could , at a pinch , eat one another but had decided not to . ‘ Yeah , the rats'd thank us for getting rid of a human,’ he went on . ‘ No,’ said Grimma .
Idiom: wake up and smell the coffee (used idiomatically: yes)
SIPPL SPELLS IT OUT TO UNIX CROWD — UNITE NOW OR THE END IS NIGH Informix Corp founder Roger Sippl went as a speaker to New Orleans to the Unix International members meeting last month to deliver a simple message . Wake up and smell the coffee , guys . There 's no time left . The sand has run out of the hourglass .
Idiom: play it cool (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Of course , why not ? Is Thursday night , say 7.30 , all right for you?’ Rainbow would prefer right now this minute , but plays it cool . Then blows the gaff on herself by driving straight past Riva 's house . ‘ Hold on …
Idiom: on the square (used idiomatically: no)
Petre also promised to set up government commissions ( i ) to investigate alleged military counter - revolutionary activity during December 1989 , especially in Timisoara ; and ( ii ) to " solve " the military 's problems . He also conceded that a legal framework could be established allowing officers to resign their commissions . However the agreement failed to quell military unrest and further demonstrations were reportedly planned to take place on Victory Square from Feb. 17 onwards . Resignation of Militaru Iliescu , in an emergency television news bulletin on Feb. 16 , announced Militaru 's resignation , stating that he had accepted a " request to remove the General " .
Idiom: out of sorts (used idiomatically: yes)
By Giles Smith in Frankfurt GORAN IVANISEVIC last night won his way into the semi - finals of the ATP World Championships here with an impressive triumph over world No 1 Jim Courier . The Croat world No 4 totally dominated a curiously out - of - sorts Courier to win 6–3 , 6–3 in only 12 minutes over the hour . The American looked shattered at the end — it was his third career defeat at the hands of 21-year - old Ivanisevic and easily the most decisive . Afterwards a jubilant victor said : ' Everybody always says I am just a big server .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: no)
Molly 's father awoke the next morning with a start , a dry mouth and an erection for which he had no need . His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . But then why , as he lay there pink and rested in his striped Viyella pyjamas feeling no older and certainly very little wiser than he had when he used to open his eyes in his prep school dormitory over sixty - five years ago , should he not be alive and kicking ? The answer came in a sudden cramp in his left leg which caused him to roll out of bed yelling as though the flat were on fire and stamp away to the bathroom as the bones and muscles slowly settled into a position to cause him only moderate discomfort . What had he to look forward to during the day ahead ?
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: yes)
The client remains closely involved in each stage of the investigation . By adopting this approach the client is assured maximum value from the project . There is also the opportunity for the client 's own personnel to be closely involved in the work in order to develop their own personal skills and expertise . Henley can offer access to a wide network of specialist researchers and academics to supplement its own faculty if necessary . This network enables issues to be tackled across national boundaries .
Idiom: have a few (used idiomatically: yes)
Pearl Brown : good management could ease the changes LETTER FROM BARTS Simon Rundell , who works in one of the London hospitals threatened with closure , has a few home truths for the health secretary Virginia Bottomley is a very nice woman : soft - spoken and yet forceful , articulate and obviously clever , and the last person I expected to talk to about my job . But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated .
Idiom: leave well alone (used idiomatically: yes)
One by one , he put the drowsy birds on to the top perch . ‘ Sure , you 're as bad as your father,’ he said , as he worked . ‘ You ca n't leave well alone.’ A black bantam squawked in surprise as he picked her up . ‘ As it happens , I believe you .