Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: yes)
Evening two ON THE WAY to the pantry to get the Christmas cookies , Nina got lost . The house was big and old , with a lot more corridors and rooms and unexpected turns than seemed necessary , but she had done enough of these ‘ entertainments’ to be familiar with the lower storeys . The route from the den to the pantry was quite simple , she thought .
Idiom: know no bounds (used idiomatically: yes)
And the more he succumbed to the allure of his own Führer cult and came to believe in his own myth , the more his judgement became impaired by faith in his own infallibility , losing his grip on what could and could not be achieved solely through the strength of his ‘ will’ . Hitler 's capacity for self - deception had been profound ever since the mid-1920s , if not earlier , and was vital in order to carry conviction among his immediate entourage about the greatness of his cause and the righteousness of his path towards attaining it . But as his success within the Movement , within the German State , and on the international stage grew until it knew no bounds , so the self - deception of the ‘ conviction’ ideologist magnified to the extent that it ultimately consumed all traces of the calculating and opportunist politician , leaving in its place only a voracious appetite for destruction — and ultimately self - destruction . In this sense , the ‘ Hitler myth’ was a fundamental component of the underlying instability of the Nazi regime and its untrammelled dynamic of destruction . It would have been expecting too much to imagine that the once - mighty ‘ Hitler myth’ might disappear overnight in 1945 , disintegrating along with the mortal remains of the Führer himself and being scattered with the ashes of the Third Reich .
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
I unscrewed the cap and sniffed at a minute drop of liquid — it was odourless . I stood the bottle on the tiled mantel and continued my chores , rewarding myself with a coffee and a stolen Woodbine in front of the newly - made fire , before fetching the groceries from the corner shop . The little brown bottle caught my eye again , and putting my cup and saucer down I uncapped and re - examined it . I tilted the bottle against my finger and sniffed again at the clear residue , wondering what to do , then ( nothing ventured , nothing gained ) , rubbed my wet finger round my gums . Nothing .
Idiom: no laughing matter (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Whose is it then,’ his nan had wanted to know , ‘ if it 's not too much to ask?’ ‘ She thinks it 's one of the lifeguards at the municipal pool,’ his mum said , and she must have sniggered because his nan came back at her very sharp . ‘ It 's no laughing matter , madam . He might be a dead loss but he 's still her husband and that makes it adultery in my book , and in the eyes of the Church.’ And Preston very tense behind the sofa , because when his nan called someone madam she meant business , and although he did n't know what adultery meant exactly he knew it was something smutty and another of the things the commandments came down pretty hard on .
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: yes)
Apart from the general fitness between what most would see as a hostile and acerbic tale and a bitter and unlovely character , one is constantly reminded of the Reeve 's provincial origins by his own dialect speech — in particular the occasional use of the Scandinavian - derived first person pronoun ik , " I " , against Chaucer 's standard ich — and by the northern speech of his two clerks , Alayn and John of Strother ( perhaps modelled on two northern characters known to the English court ) , which was yet further removed from the London standard of Chaucer 's day . But if this reading of the Reeve 's character , and of the relationship between teller and tale , were true , it would leave the Reeve almost uniquely condemned amongst the Canterbury pilgrims . He would not , of course , be alone in being exposed in the General Prologue and enhancing the adverse view of himself by his own Prologue — consider , for instance , the Pardoner — but he would be alone in then telling a tale which clinches the destruction of any claim to a good character he might have ; a tale without any redeeming features , which the tales of even the worst of the corrupt clerics , the Friar and the Pardoner , have . After reminding ourselves , once more , that the General Prologue portrait of the Reeve contains its ambiguities — possibly sinister ones — we can start our examination of the portrayal of the Reeve with his Prologue . Most of what he says here is a reflection upon old age , which is also a reflection upon himself : " " ik am oold " " ( 3867 ) .
Idiom: take liberties (used idiomatically: yes)
Indeed , the Rue - des - Bois landscapes already have much in common with Braque 's contemporary works . In both there is a reinterpretation of Cézanne in thoughtful , more conceptual , terms . Both painters take slight liberties with conventional perspective ; that is to say , in their canvases the angles of vision are no longer completely consistent . Further , neither painter relies completely on the use of a single , consistent light source to model forms . Both have begun to produce a sensation of relief by arbitrarily juxtaposing lights and darks rather than by using shading in a naturalistic way .
Idiom: fall on deaf ears (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I do n't want to flirt,’ she snapped . ‘ I 'd be safer flirting with a rattlesnake.’ This seemed to be falling on deaf ears . ‘ I do n't chase men.’ ‘ Time you learned,’ Mandy informed her with a disapproving cluck .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: yes)
Seeing the face of his wife covered in green spots , he had a heart ~ attack . Yet another victim of the killer cucumber !
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: yes)
Ashe held in demo EX - TENNIS champ Arthur Ashe was arrested last night for taking part in a demo outside the White House . Ashe , his hands bound behind his back , was grabbed with 70 others for attacking US policy on Haitian refugees . Of the 30,000 who fled from a military dictatorship in Haiti , 24,000 have been sent back . Many more have drowned sailing to the US in flimsy boats .
Idiom: bend someone's ear (used idiomatically: yes)
The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion’ . In this way they achieve the desired effect of both showing off their street fighting skills and justifying their moral commitment to racism , while positioning me , alongside their parents and girl friends as admiring spectators of their ‘ protection racket’ . Of course while they may be imagining that they are bending my ear and creating a good impression , they are also providing me with the kind of evidence I am looking for about the gendered and generational aspects of this kind of racism . But would the story have been told in quite the same way if I had been black , or a woman , or nearer their own age and social background ? Indeed would it have been told at all ?
Idiom: under the sun (used idiomatically: yes)
Except the sunshine . Spain . Everything under the sun . Espana Shangri - La hotel
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: no)
This can best be done by concentrating primarily , though not exclusively , on Germany , and on three broad lines which may be distinguished there . ( For a fuller account , which gives a much more rounded picture than is possible here of such thinkers as Schleiermacher , Hegel and Kierkegaard , and which also gives special attention to British and American theology , Claude Welch , Protestant Thought in the Nineteenth Century , vol . 1 : 1799–1870 ( 1972 ) , is especially to be recommended . ) The first line begins with the man who has justly been termed ' the father of modern theology ' , Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher ( 1768–1834 ) , who was Professor of Theology in Berlin from 1809 ; and leads on to Albrecht Ritschl ( 1822–89 ) , Professor in Göttingen from 1864 , and those who under his influence formed the school of what is now generally known as Liberal Theology . A second and much more broken line runs from Schleiermacher 's contemporary Georg W. F. Hegel ( 1770–1831 , Professor of Philosophy in Berlin from 1818 ) , and includes such diverse figures as the theologian A. E. Biedermann ( 1819–85 ) , the New Testament scholars F. C. Baur ( 1792–1860 ) and D. F. Strauss ( 1808–74 ) , and the philosophers Ludwig Feuerbach ( 1804–72 ) , Karl Marx ( 1818–83 ) and Søren Kierkegaard ( 1813–55 ) . In both of these lines one central issue was that raised by Lessing of the relation between theology and history .
Idiom: upset the apple cart (used idiomatically: yes)
Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second - hand car - sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . When a tap came on the door she did n't answer , but when it came again , she called quietly , ‘ Come in.’ Victoria came towards her , saying , ‘ By ! you 've upset the apple cart today , have n't you?’ ‘ She 's told you ? She 's told you about the bathing?’
Idiom: point the finger (used idiomatically: yes)
According to Mr Reenan , he taped the call on January the 4th , 4 days after the conversation apparently took place . Later it emerged that a second tape of the same conversation had been recorded in Oxford , on a different date , from a scanning receiver at the home of Jane Norgrove . The finger of suspicion was pointed in the direction of GCHQ , the government 's listening centre at Cheltenham , or a branch of the security services . Intelligence experts suggested that only they would have the equipment and technical expertise to intercept and re - broadcast high quality recordings of mobile phone calls . But according to John Nelson , the tape he examined could not have been recorded using any scanning equipment and was the result of a bug on an ordinary telephone .
Idiom: bring the house down (used idiomatically: yes)
Voice over Wrestling may have lost its Saturday tea time slot on the telly , but the fans still love it and they pack in to watch when there 's a show in town ; and some show it was too this week . Topping the bill was Dangerous Dan the fire eater , but it was the finish that brought the house down . It 's called a Battle Royal . That 's 12 fighters in the ring .
Idiom: pure and simple (used idiomatically: yes)
This is a nice fellow speaking . Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal —‘morally’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . This was hubris , pure and simple … Zuckerman 's relationship with his brother Henry is , in contrast , often sanguinary , as gruesome as their respective operations . Zuckerman Unbound ( 1981 ) reaches its climax at one of Roth 's frequent funerals — in this case , that of Zuckerman 's father — after which Henry charges Nathan with killing their parent by writing ‘ that book’ , the liberated Carnovsky , and with believing like the bastard he is that fiction does n't have consequences .
Idiom: behind closed doors (used idiomatically: yes)
The players affected are Peter Gleasure , Trevor Quow , Irvin Gernon , Adrian Thorpe , Greg Campbell , Dave Johnson , David Scope , Darren Wood and Kevin Wilkin . The club 's game at Barnet goes ahead with player Phil Chard in temporary charge . Birmingham City were yesterday fined £ 50,000 and ordered to play two games behind closed doors following the riot at St Andrews in February , though the punishment is suspended until the end of next season . The penalty comes after an invasion involving around 2,000 Birmingham supporters , who took to the pitch at the end of the Third Division game against Stoke . Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear has been charged by the FA with misconduct for the second time this year .
Idiom: in my book (used idiomatically: yes)
The bottle was in my hand , though , after that YMCA debacle . When that final whistle went I just wanted to throw up in the sponge bag . They were nothing more than a lousy bunch of down and outs , students ( same thing in my book ) , and back - packing evangelists with acne . Most of them had to be introduced to one another by the referee yet they still stuffed four past us . Luckily , my after - match tantrum in the dressing room certainly shook up my rabble and got a good performance against Frampton .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
Give me money or else I 'll flash ! ' The first house on the list was a small ground - floor flat belonging to a carpenter . The eunuchs piled into the entrance hall , the musicians started up the music and Vimla led the dancing by stamping her foot and ringing her little anklet bells . Things were just getting going when a neighbour appeared . Yes , she said , there had just been a birth in the house , but the family had gone to stay with cousins in Haryana ; there was now no one at home .
Idiom: come to a head (used idiomatically: yes)
The Sunderland manager has lived with speculation over his job since signing a one-year contract at the end of last season . Manchester United 's Bryan Robson is the latest to be linked with the Wearsiders . But Crosby 's future only came to a head this week when he reacted angrily to claims of an approach for Crystal Palace boss Steve Coppell . He said : ‘ I have talked to the chairman and he has assured me that there is no truth in the Crystal Palace thing . ‘ The last thing I need is to keep arguing with the chairman .
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: yes)
NHS dentists already earn on average £ 10,000 a year less than doctors and they 're not willing to take a £ 6,000 pay cut . The latest crime figures for Oxfordshire show a rise of more than thirty per cent . A suspected burglar is on the run after he escaped from police by jumping through a court room window . Twenty three year old John Kitchin had just been remanded in custody on a burglary charge . HEREFORD
Idiom: lend a hand (used idiomatically: yes)
A lean , dark - haired man with a smile as bright as his wife 's , he appeared delighted at the sight of Guido . ‘ You 're a little early for the party,’ he joked . ‘ Unless you 've come to lend a hand with the preparations?’ Guido explained what he 'd told Agnese earlier , that he was looking for Jeff and Silvia . ‘ I was told there was a possibility they might have been here yesterday,’ he explained , carefully avoiding glancing at Ronni .
Idiom: up hill and down dale (used idiomatically: yes)
He was sitting underneath a high bit of cliff with my purple stripy barrel - bag beside him and a sheaf of my dreams in his hands . Blind with rage : I know why they say blind — I could n't see him , I could n't see anything — I did n't think what to say , I was just saying it , shouting it , fury pouring out of me like hot tar — my hands were on my hips and clinging on so as to stop myself tearing his straggly hair out , gouging his eyes out , strangling him till his voice went gurgle - croak and his body went limp . ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit - bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ Stopped . panted .
Idiom: in broad daylight (used idiomatically: yes)
D'Arcy decided to let that one ride . Whether Nadirpur liked it or not , it would be impossible to keep either the British or the French police out of the affair . Not when the kidnap had taken place in broad daylight and the story had already been splashed across the front page of London 's evening newspaper . He said : ‘ We can cross that bridge when we come to it . All we can do for now is wait for the kidnappers to make contact .
Idiom: break someone's heart (used idiomatically: yes)
I know you were down when in hospital but you will feel a different girl when you get home again , I know you will feel better . I 'm sure it would be better for you to be in your own room in your own home again with your Mum and Dad who love you to look after you , than amongst strangers . Please please please my darling girl come home you are breaking your mother 's heart . All our love , Mum & dad
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: yes)
ANN HAYWARD Tolkien Society Voice over '' In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit''''the opening to a novel that transformed the face of fantasy literature . The author was an Oxford don , JRR Tolkien . His books still sell nearly four million copies a year , but he wrote his first stories to entertain his children .
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
I thought that at least part of what I 'd said had satisfied him . At least he knew I told him the truth . I nodded , feeling a sense of relief , as if we 'd cleared some giant obstacle in a fog . But still he did n't smile , and later I wondered if perhaps we 'd hit it without knowing it . " Let 's go , " he said .
Idiom: fly the flag (used idiomatically: yes)
That argument might have some merit only if the requirements laid down by Community law with regard to the exercise by the member states of the powers which they retained with regard to the registration of vessels conflicted with the rules of international law . 17 . Consequently , the answer to question ( 1 ) must be that , as Community law stands at present , it is for the member states to determine , in accordance with the general rules of international law , the conditions which must be fulfilled in order for a vessel to be registered in their registers and granted the right to fly their flag , but , in exercising that power , the member states must comply with the rules of Community law . Question ( 2 ) 18 .
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: yes)
If you will give me half your treasure I will fetch her back for you . " " Very well , " said the king . So the wise woman , taking a whip in her hand , seated herself on a small carpet and lashed it with the whip until it rose in the air and carried her to the forest . There she saw the princess , walking outside the ruined castle with all the animals keeping guard over her . " Would you like to listen to some fine stories ? " said the wise woman .
Idiom: on the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
Human degradation is everywhere . Walk up to the gates and you feel like you have been sandbagged in the stomach . Laid out on the ground are the dead of the day so far . It is 11 am and we count 43 shrouded bodies — 12 of them babies , another eight young children . Close by are four more being washed down and wrapped for burial .
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: yes)
Er if , if you , if you had , you had to dig a little hole in , in the , in the , by the wall on the , on the pavement like that to hold about sixty four marbles say , and you 'd start off and say , give or give or take give or take as a lawyer , I used to have four marbles , and whoever was taken that was a lawyer of four marbles , I do n't know why . And whoever took this four marb eight marbles had chucked them in this hole and if a even number come out it was mine , if a odd number came out then he 'd take the eight . Then you 'd have eighter , or sixteener , a thirty twoer until you 'd got sixty four marbles you know and chuck them in this hole and if odd or even come out . Of course it was gambling . Martin they used to call it , pitch and toss , er till the policeman used to come round and used to , what you on with ?
Idiom: go public (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Which , of course , did upset you.’ ‘ To be frank , Freddy , he 's earned it . I doubt SUPPLYKITS would be going public without him.’ ‘ Nevertheless , Adam 's a qualified lawyer,’ Freddy said , ‘ yet he put his name to a prospectus which says that all material information has been disclosed — but does not mention a fifteen per cent stock option that I was n't told about.’ He sat down on a white , tulip - shaped chair .
Idiom: home and dry (used idiomatically: yes)
United were even more inspired after the break . They were n't going to settle for the one goal . And when Chris Allen was upended in the area , United probably thought they were home and dry . But Jim Magilton 's penalty was brilliantly saved by Martin Taylor at the foot of the post . Still , seven minutes later Magilton made up for his miss .
Idiom: face to face (used idiomatically: yes)
The curtains of his bed were drawn aside , I tell you , by a hand . Not the curtains at his feet , nor the curtains at his back , but those to which his face was addressed . The curtains of his bed were drawn aside ; and Scrooge , starting up into a half - recumbent attitude , found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them : as close to it as I am now to you , and I am standing in the spirit at your elbow .
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: yes)
I hope you 've enjoyed it , I hope you 've enjoyed it perhaps more than some of us dared to . But it 's been I think great fun and I will wish to renew my thanks to those who made it possible and that of course is you by being here . Just before we go we are going to hear a recording of a song that 's been referred to which I think is called the greatest love of all which I 'm told we 'll all know by heart er this time next year hmm erm anyway on that note if I may thank you very , very much indeed and I leave you with best wishes for a highly , highly successful birthday year . Bye .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
A couple of grey and white winter - plumage black guillemots — called tysties in Shetland — complete the picture , and I wind up the window and move on . The name tystie , which comes from the old Norse language , may refer to the birds’ high - pitched , ‘ reedy’call . There is quite a lot of activity as I come over the hill . The local rubbish - tip near the roadside is constantly picked over by gulls , starlings , crows and ravens . When I stop to check it out , a small flock of snow buntings fly up , upset by the watchful hooded crows .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
KLM 's part in the NorthWest deal falls short of the 25 per cent limit placed on foreign ownership by the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 . But the Dutch airline has had to agree to reduce its $400m investment in NorthWest to about $175m , or about a quarter of the equity involved in the takeover being led by Los Angeles businessman Al Checchi . The $3.65bn buyout will increase the airline 's debt-equity ratio from less than 50 per cent to 585 per cent and NorthWest operates one of the oldest fleets in the industry , but Mr Skinner 's chief concern was the citizenship of KLM 's representative on the NorthWest board . ‘ I ca n't figure out why foreign investment is the battlefield he decided to pick , ’ one official said on Friday . Washington 's stance seems sure to complicate the United Airlines buyout , which was to close a few days after the 10 October deadline set by Mr Skinner for information on BA 's involvement .