Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: jump to conclusions (used idiomatically: yes)
That was n't why I wanted you to let him go ! How you do love to jump to conclusions —’ ‘ I jump to conclusions,’ he interrupted incredulously . Ignoring that , she continued crossly , ‘ I wanted you to let him go because I did n't in the least fancy the idea of visiting you in jail ! Holding hands through the bars is not my idea of fun!’
Idiom: pecking order (used idiomatically: yes)
And I like to think I 've learned my lessons : about eating shit and the pecking order , and the thickness of blood and the thickness of water .
Idiom: old hat (used idiomatically: yes)
In respecting past values , Morgan could be accused of regression . He argues that his work is not Edwardian in projection , that his pictures borrow something from other eras , but have a buoyant vitality that is of their own time . His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd - of - sheep painting’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character . Howard Morgan remains disarmingly dismissive of his talent . ‘ I do n't know where it comes from .
Idiom: lie low (used idiomatically: yes)
There is also an important grassland element over much of the heavy land of the Weald , where farming is characteristically more mixed than on the Downs , the coastal plain , river valleys or levels . Nearly half the arable area is concentrated along the Downs and the coastal plain to their south , with another important area aligned along the Greensand belt to their north . In general terms grass predominates on the heaviest soils or in low - lying wet areas , and arable where the soil is free draining and easily worked . The most important crops are clover and temporary grass ( leys ) 34 per cent . of arable land , barley ( rather more in East Sussex ) 29 per cent . , and wheat ( mainly West Sussex ) 20 per cent .
Idiom: on a roll (used idiomatically: yes)
Maxell is confident that the prospect of a video - tape tax is now remote . In West Germany , meanwhile , BASF has come up with a technical solution to the threat of a tax on blank audio tape . The company has devised a system of recording non - copyright material , like discordant brass band music or language tuition , on the bulk rolls of tape as they leave the magnetic coating bath . A wide recording head stretches across the jumbo roll of tape and magnetises it before it is slit to domestic size . So the finished tape is no longer blank and no longer taxable .
Idiom: go through the motions (used idiomatically: yes)
Why ? Partly because if we explicate the concept of requesting , it will be found to be constituted of the very speaker beliefs and wishes listed in part in ( a ) -(g)(see Chapter 5 ) . But of course it would be possible to go through the behavioural motions of requesting without having any of the requisite beliefs and intentions . Therefore one is warranted in making the inference from the behaviour to the beliefs and intentions of the speaker only by a general assumption of sincerity , or cooperativeness ( see Chapter 3 ) . If A knows in advance that B ca n't come , then he is being deceptive ; but if he knows that B knows that he knows that B ca n't come , then he can not be interpreted as requesting at all(utterance ( i ) might then be a joke , or if B is in an incapacitated ( say , inebriated ) state , perhaps a gibe ) .
Idiom: pick up the tab (used idiomatically: yes)
He did quick mental arithmetic and named a large sum . ‘ The money is a bona fide payment in thanks for your co - operation and to compensate you for the upheaval . In addition , my company will pick up the tab for all legal and moving expenses . I realise that before making any commitment you 'll want to take advice , but perhaps you could let me have your initial response?’ ‘ I 'm not interested,’ she said , and walked past him and out into the sunshine .
Idiom: sleep rough (used idiomatically: yes)
We feel this will be significant for us as we have not as yet really ‘ advertised’ the Centre because we felt we had no real permanence of venue . Our own Ian Smith is drawing up posters for us so we can be sure they will be eye - catching . The fact that we are situated right next to the park does not escape our notice and we have in fact had people in from the park who sleep rough there . Many of our own folks come along to help out or just be part of the gathering . Now that we have a permanent place to meet we would like to start up a library as some folks can not afford to buy reading material so if you have any books that you have finished with or which are duplicates and would like to make room for new editions we will be happy to give them a good home where they will be used and appreciated .
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: no)
IN their newsletter , Musselburgh have long campaigned against the influx of foreign players into club rugby . Therefore , it 's rather ironic that one of the clubs who pipped them for promotion to Division I , West of Scotland , reckon the very reason they are going up is down to their New Zealand lock , Gordon McPherson . According to their former captain and hooker , Douglas Livingstone , McPherson 's influence both on and off the field has been a major factor in what has been a very successful season . ‘ He has a strong grasp of what the game is about , is a great motivator and he has introduced some fresh ideas at training , where he assists Colin Mair.’ Capped for the All Blacks against France about six years ago , McPherson , 30 , actually brought the birth certificates of his Scottish grand - parents with him , but much to his regret he has gone un - noticed by the Scottish selectors .
Idiom: fall into place (used idiomatically: yes)
Of course , when I look back at it all now , the thought terrifies me ! I guess the only really risky one was the ‘ Met’ début — to arrive at such a comparatively young age , and sing the Grand Inquisitor … ! But I was so lucky that with one exception , everything seemed to fall into place at exactly the right time.’ Had Furlanetto done his homework on the great singers of the past , simply in order to try and absorb something of the tradition in double - quick time ? Not a bit of it !
Idiom: go to the wall (used idiomatically: no)
It would be a secret carefully kept , never mentioned by the people it concerned . It would just be there , like a touch of fog . He had said to the clergyman that opportunity would n't knock , but you never knew and you definitely had to keep your spirits up or you 'd go to the wall . One minute you discovered you could do a falsetto , the next that there was a reason why a woman had given you a sweet . Everything was waiting for you ; for a start you could get money left to you in a will .
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
Or did it ? Bite into a shiny , red apple and taste insipid sponge . Often picked by impoverished Third World workers , it appears on our supermarket shelves and our tables as a polished , insubstantial thing , available only in two or three varieties instead of in thousands , and grown at the expense of the environment . With the apple we have tried to naturalize our exploitation of the world , to make oppression and degradation seem part of nature 's plan . But the apple is biting back .
Idiom: one of those things (used idiomatically: no)
The bit about a ' goalmouth misunderstanding ' which led to Northallerton scoring needs clarification , however . Northallerton play next to the main East Coast railway line . The misunderstanding coincided with the passing of one of those new fangled 225 things . ' What happened , ' says an attendant parent , ' is that our defence stopped to look at the train . There 've not been trains in Barney for 30 years ; a lot of them had never seen one in their lives . '
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: yes)
Where previous boy - girl ballads dealt with prom night nerves or playground jealousies . The Shirelles sang about ‘ doing it’ . Carole King , the sharpest female lyricist of all time , ponders going all the way and whether her lover would still respect her in the morning . A pointed articulation of the oncoming New Permissiveness . 1961
Idiom: against the grain (used idiomatically: yes)
As for li , it is pattern , structure , order ; the concrete uses of the word are for veins in jade and the grain of wood . The li as a whole is the cosmic pattern which lays down the lines along which nature and man move , which harmonizes opposites with complementary functions , Yin and Yang , ruler and subject , father and son , and alternates day and night , birth and death , the rise and fall of dynasties , in regular cycles , diverging downwards to the minutest detail of texture and converging upwards to the unity in which everything is interrelated . The li is not obeyed or defied like a law , one goes either with or against the grain of it , as in chopping wood . Le Gall translated it by forme , thus by the choice of two words remoulding the whole Neo - Confucian cosmology after the analogy of Aristotelian form and matter . J. Percy Bruce chose for his equivalent ‘ law’ , and so incorporated into the Neo - Confucian terminology itself the wrong answer to the question ‘ Are there laws of nature in China?’ , a misunderstanding which Joseph Needham in elucidating the concepts of Chinese science had to analyse at length .
Idiom: under the microscope (used idiomatically: yes)
First , though , one has to obtain a very thin section of the rock , thin enough to be translucent . Cutting these sections is a skilled job , requiring the services of a technician in a specially - equipped workshop , so there can be no question of using even the most portable of microscopes to study rocks in the field . When a thin section of a basalt is examined under a microscope , it can be seen to be made up of a closely - felted mass of interlocking needle - like crystals of feldspar , a millimetre or so long , with a scattering of more colourful tiny crystals of olivine and pyroxene and some black opaque specks of iron oxides . It is the word crystal that is important . A crystalline substance is an ordered substance : all the atoms in it are arranged in a regular geometrical pattern ; so when the lava cooled from its original molten condition , the initial homogeneous liquid melt crystallized out to form well - ordered , identifiable minerals .
Idiom: pull the plug (used idiomatically: yes)
An extreme example is MDI , a quoted housing developer whose borrowing rose 23-fold in those five years . The combination of tight money and high debt is causing more than token distress . Bankruptcies , mostly property - related , totalled ¥ 931 billion in the first two months of 1991 , and the total will rise in the new financial year , starting April 1st , as banks pull the plug on other overborrowed customers . The banks have been holding off up till now , because they did not want loan losses further to dent their earnings , already hit by the stockmarket fall , in the current financial year . Japanese banks have great flexibility in this : they do not have to declare loans non - performing until after a year of non - payment of interest ( as against 90 days in America ) .
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
There the truth may by now be known . Here it certainly is not.’ The earl had sat well back from between the bristling champions , absolving himself from all responsibility here except to keep the peace and harmony of his hall . His countenance was bland , sympathetic to both parties , concerned that both should have justice done to them , and be satisfied . ‘ Reverend Fathers,’ he said mildly , ‘ as I hear , you intend in any case returning together to Shrewsbury .
Idiom: spot on (used idiomatically: yes)
I have recently purchased a yearling filly believed to have come from Bodmin Moor . I wonder if you can tell me what breeds run on the moor so I may be able to work out her breeding . She has some spots on her , also some others she was with were spotted . Could there be a spotted stallion on the moor ? Also is it possible to register these ponies with any society ?
Idiom: six feet under (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I now have a completely different lifestyle , with different sets of values . I am more content and I feel a lot happier . ‘ As a fund - raiser , you can never take no for an answer and no one was going to put me six feet under.’ Mrs Hilton was a successful public relations and fundraising consultant in New Zealand when she learned she had cancer . After having her breast removed , she was then told the malignancy had spread to the lymph nodes under her arm .
Idiom: have a few (used idiomatically: yes)
But he he says we 're hysterical . Well , if he lived in the north- east , er part of this county , that great ar area where there is very little in terms of infrastructure perhaps er er it 's a pity we ca n't have a few more hysterics and we would perhaps get further down the road . Thank you , Chairman Thank you , Mr Chairman , erm , I 'm here to say , it 's quite true to say that it does vary from year to year , on er , what our programme is , but er , we we also have to face it , that er , com compared with some other areas , both east midlands and nationally , we do not have the traffic , and this does go against our for T A. Er , the the traffic on our roads
Idiom: hold water (used idiomatically: no)
But the easiest to explain it is the fact there is that less gravity on this side holding the sea water in . Well because erm the moon here has a gravitational effect on the sea water as we can see on this side . The moon is that much further away from the sea on this side so that 'd have that much less of an effect holding the sea water down on to the earth and therefore the sea water comes Now obviously the water from the high tide has got to come from somewhere so they 'll be some parts of the globe low tide . Why does why gravitational pull No there 's less gravity .
Idiom: make light of (used idiomatically: yes)
It may immediately make you think of ‘ candle’—‘power - cut’—‘strike’—‘inflation’—‘rising costs’—‘bank balance’ , or ‘ light’ makes you think of ‘ long light evenings’—‘summertime’—‘gardening’—‘lumbago’— and so on . PP asks : What saying is suggested when a person does not fuss about something ? Yes , they ‘ make light of it’ . What saying is suggested when ‘ clothing is not heavy’ ? Yes — it 's lightweight .
Idiom: grease the wheels (used idiomatically: yes)
He was , however , long remembered . About 1202 the canonist Robert de Courcon cited him as a man ‘ who became immensely rich through lending money to innumerable merchants throughout the world’ , objecting that in his partnerships he shared the profits but kept the capital safe . Cade founded no dynasty , but in his day he was a major operator in what R. H. Tawney [ q.v.]called ‘ that seductive border region where business greases the wheels of politics and polite society smiles hopefully on both’ . [ Articles by H. Jenkinson , J. H. Round , and C. H. Haskins in English Historical Review , vol . xxviii , 1913 ; article by H. Jenkinson in Essays in History Presented to R. L. Poole , ed . H. W. C. Davis , 1927 ; H. G. Richardson , The English Jewry under Angevin Kings , 1960 . ]
Idiom: below the belt (used idiomatically: no)
‘ What are you referring to exactly?’ ‘ Well , you know . The below the belt . All that side of the business.’ ‘ My dear Fosdyke .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
My mind may command my body , quite unconsciously , to avoid the circumstances which arouse the guilt and my body may respond with some very physical obedience such as impotence or imagined pain . Guilt - feeling may make us angry . By and large , the things which anger us are those which make us feel guilty . This applies not only to the anger implicit in embarrassment or defensiveness ( " it 's not my fault , it 's yours ! " ) but also in our apparently most reasoned attitudes — " I fear and am ashamed of my own homosexual feeling ; I am angry with it in itself ; I will project this anger outside me but I can not admit why ; all homosexuals should be shot because they corrupt little children ! " Thus , anger may militate against sexual satisfaction in oneself or prevent one 's allowing satisfaction to a partner by its own effect ; or the guilt underlying anger may similarly impede love - making / relationships ; or sexual pleasure may promote guilt which evinces itself as anger which …
Idiom: make ends meet (used idiomatically: yes)
As you know , I ' ve lost my job , so I ' m having trouble making ends meet .
Idiom: grind to a halt (used idiomatically: yes)
The more of these questions you can anticipate the better , but there will always be surprises . Planning to avoid collapse Possibly the greatest fear one might have is that , because the lesson is relatively unstructured , it could grind to a halt . It may seem obvious to try the investigation yourself first , but this can have hidden dangers . If you discover some wonderful patterns or general algebraic relationships hidden in the structure of the problem it can be very tempting to steer pupils towards them and generate a feeling of disappointment if they do not get there .
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
That is both our hope and our opportunity . Tony Blair ‘ Many of the imperfections and injustices in our political system — the overweening power of the executive , the absence of proper protection for personal liberty , unfair voting , excessive secrecy , a Conservative dominated press , the centralisation of power — all these were tolerated by many in Britain , precisely because , from time to time , power changed hands … Are we prepared to witness the slow death of pluralism within our democracy?’ Where does this leave Labour ?
Idiom: see stars (used idiomatically: no)
These point straight to Delta Octantis ( 4.3 ) , which is clearly orange , and has two dim stars , Pi&sup1 ; and Pi&sup2 ; Octantis , close beside it . Now put Delta Octantis in the edge of the field , and continue the line from Apus . Chi Octantis ( 5.2 ) will be on the far side of the field ; centre it , and then you will see two more stars of about the same brightness , Sigma and Tau . These three are in the same field , and make up a triangle . The south polar star , Sigma , is the second in order from Delta .
Idiom: break someone's heart (used idiomatically: yes)
She described a recent visit to her local Samaritans ' branch , where a voluntary worker told her that they received telephone calls from teenagers who were ‘ so filled with fear , and so depressed by the constant threat of a nuclear accident’ that they had to be deterred from committing suicide . I can not assure my children that all will be safe if Hinkley C is built,’ she concluded . ‘ This breaks my heart and makes me very , very angry.’ The CEGB countered many of the fears expressed about Chernobyl with a simple phrase , ‘ It could n't happen here’ . From the basic engineering of the reactor , through to its back - up safety systems , automatic shutdown procedures and the regulatory supervision in the background , the structure was such as to make such an event literally impossible in Britain .
Idiom: take a bath (used idiomatically: yes)
To the left as you entered was the copper over which hung a galvanised tub used not only on wash days but also for personal baths . These were normally taken in the scullery as the lifting of hot water by bucket from the copper was quite a performance . During extremely cold weather baths were taken in comfort in the front of the kitchen fire after the rest of the family had gone to bed . This meant carrying buckets of near boiling water a distance of eighteen to twenty feet , and emptying meant doing the job all over again in the reverse direction . It was hard work !
Idiom: anyone's guess (used idiomatically: yes)
Criticism of s.47 comes from academics . Gl . Williams wrote ( 1990 ) 140 NLJ 1227 : What the Victorian draftsman intended by " actual " is anyone 's guess . He was evidently searching , unsuccessfully , for something between " trivial " and " serious " . The courts have not helped him by sensible pronouncements .
Idiom: take no prisoners (used idiomatically: yes)
Skerrett , Betts , McGinty , Clarke . Subs Mather , Myers . KEVIN Ward will be taking no prisoners against bitter rivals Wigan Bassett bets on Gerry JOHN EDWARDS
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
The presence of objects from St Petersburg , Moscow , Novgorod , Kiev and Odessa ensures a wider geographical perspective than was possible at David Wilson 's exhibition at the British Museum in 1984 , tracing the Viking expansion eastward as far as Iraq . From the other point of the compass , the finds from a Canadian village have led the organisers to postulate that the ‘ prairie country’ of Norse myth may have been Newfoundland , discovered 500 years before Columbus . According to Jean - Pierre Mohén , ‘ The exhibition also breaks new ground in covering the whole period from the eighth century to the early Middle Ages . It therefore explores the effects of Viking expansion in Europe and shows a new nation emerging from the clash of pagan nordic civilisation with the medieval Christian world’ . Boats so essential to Viking power and influence are the subject of the introductory section .
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
The history of Austro - Hungary through the nineteenth century is one of alteration between repression and compromise in its effort to maintain the fabric of the empire against its increasingly centrifugal tendencies . It had never been a homogeneous state , more a collection of dynastic holdings , and its ruling caste never subscribed to the liberal notions of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution . They did , however , take up that romantic nationalism which went hand in hand with them . As the nineteenth century progressed , German nationalism became increasingly the blunt instrument with which Austro - Hungary attempted to bludgeon Bohemia and Moravia into quiescence , while in Slovakia the Hungarian ruling caste pursued a policy of Magyarisation . But nationalism is a treacherous weapon and may rebound on its user and , especially after the failure of the European radical movements in 1848 , the Pan - Germanism and anti - semitism which Vienna adopted only served to stir the embers of Bohemian nationality .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: yes)
' We ca n't see Charlton Athletic , Chester City or Maidstone United being refused entry , nor would we want them to be , ' he says . ' For teams like us to enter the competition is a long standing privilege which enhances the competition and harms no one . ' Father figure AFTER floodlights , the men in black . Police are investigating claims that linesman Ray Bowden made a V - sign to the crowd in last week 's Preston v Shrewsbury game . It 's said to have happened after Stockton referee Ken Lupton sent off Preston striker Ronnie Jepson , for allegedly badmouthing Bowden .
Idiom: crystal clear (used idiomatically: no)
She 'd been listening to him with dawning realisation , an icy sensation freezing her body inch by inch . And suddenly she was n't confused any longer . Her brain was crystal - clear . ‘ I see,’ she whispered miserably . ‘ And when you could n't get rid of me you worked on me as if you were working gold , moulding me to what you wanted — a malleable piece of property worth a fortune , sitting nicely in the palm of your hand.’
Idiom: off the hook (used idiomatically: yes)
Games Blame is another element of manipulation . Some people will resort to games in order to get themselves off the hook or to put down another person . Some blame games are described very well in Eric Berne 's book The Games People Play ( See Further Reading , p. 149 ) . One of these games is Blemish ; another is Yes , But .