Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: bleeding heart (used idiomatically: yes)
I do n't want this , I do n't want to die . What would she know about it anyway ? Pampered little cow , with her public bleeding heart . Posturing while she checks her lip gloss . Photo opportunity with the dying .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: no)
' John made it clear enough that he was thinking of the Roman curia : ' In our everyday ministry we often have to listen , greatly to our sorrow , to those … who do not have much discretion or balance ' . So , third , the purpose of the Council was not just to restate and defend past doctrines — for that a Council was not necessary — but to ' make a leap forward in doctrinal insight and the education of consciences in ever greater fidelity to authentic teaching . But this authentic doctrine has to be studied in the light of the research methods and the literary forms of modern thought . For the substance of the ancient deposit of faith is one thing , and the way it is presented is another,'(my translation ) . The last sentence of this immensely significant passage was the only text from this address quoted by the Council ( in Gaudium et Spes 62 ) .
Idiom: on the money (used idiomatically: no)
Wayne Levi is the best player in America ? Get real . But , but , he did win four tournaments , he did finish second to Norman on the money list , and he did end his season with a startlingly brilliant final round , an 8-under par 63 at the Champions course in Houston to give him third place in the rich Nabisco Championships . That was three better than the next best round of the day . Levi 's closing holes at Houston were indicative of the kind of year he had .
Idiom: at the crossroads (used idiomatically: yes)
Moving up in the world BIGGER , brighter premises and a service to match are what Halifax Property Services in Finaghy are offering . They have just moved from their Finaghy Road South base at the crossroads , to the corner of 124A Upper Lisburn Road and Mount Aboo Street — in the heart of the Finaghy shopping centre . ‘ The bigger , brighter premises will be a great help in our work in the Finaghy area,’ explained area manager Beth Robinson . ‘ And the more prominent position in the middle of the busy Finaghy shopping area will let people know we are here and publicise the services we offer .
Idiom: act of God (used idiomatically: yes)
Ceauşescu knew that revolutions do not arise from despair but hope . Keeping the ‘ common people’ of Romania down by always increasing the demands put upon them and diminishing their rewards was good policy as well as economically necessary if his ever - more ambitious plans were to be accomplished . An act of God is usually held to have been the spark which ignited Ceauşescu 's ambitions as a town - planner and architect of communism and spurred him to act on them . On 4 March 1977 , Bucharest was shaken by a severe earthquake . At least 1,500 people died as a result .
Idiom: once and for all (used idiomatically: yes)
The contents of a location is whatever was most recently written in that location . Each ROM location also has an address and a contents . The difference is that each location is stuck with its contents , once and for all . The DNA is arranged along stringy chromosomes , like long computer tapes . All the DNA in each of our cells is addressed in the same sense as computer ROM , or indeed computer tape , is addressed .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
You saw the corpse , Sir John , and the chamber ? There was no sign of any struggle nor did the guards hear anything . Thirdly , who rang the tocsin bell and , at the same time , so subtly arranged for Mowbray to fall from the parapet ? ' The coroner 's face grew longer at Athelstan 's every word . ' And the list of suspects , ' the friar continued remorselessly , ' still stands .
Idiom: on ice (used idiomatically: yes)
The former Prime Minister flew back from America on Thursday just in time to embark on a royal progress through London 's Tory drawing rooms . From early on it was clear there was little danger of the jollities turning into a wake . It was the Labour Party that was putting the Dom Perignon back on ice . In a stark black dress and accompanied by her husband , Denis , and son Mark , Mrs Thatcher greeted friends and supporters . First stop was a party given by Lord Wolfson , the businessman , at Claridges .
Idiom: walk free (used idiomatically: yes)
Voice over At Springhill open prison near Aylesbury , Murray Stewart was just another inmate . 7 weeks ago on December 5th , he walked free . There was no massive police hunt ; no warning to ports and airports . Yet Murray Stewart , formerly known as Murray Reilly , was serving a 5 year sentence for attempting to defraud British Aerospace of £ 40 m .
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: yes)
The first time I did a really good job . The second one looked amateur.’ This kind of resourcefulness can accomplish a lot in business . Skateboarder / artist Ged Wells , 24 , joined the Enterprise Allowance Scheme on the Isle of Wight . ‘ I tried to get a £ 1,000 overdraft from my bank , but they tried to make me take out a lot of loans .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: no)
They left messages in a hollow tree on Seacroft estate . I led a desperate expedition . We got lost , returning home at ten , trembling with terror at our own inventions . I was banned from playing with Bridget . I was over - excitable .
Idiom: lift a finger (used idiomatically: yes)
De Craon stared bleakly at the English clerk and shrugged to show his unease . ' Very well , ' he muttered . ' You may see Lady Yolande , not , ' he lifted a warning finger , ' not in her cabin ! I suggest that a few moments here on deck will suffice . ' Corbett agreed and de Craon disappeared for a while .
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
The Court of Appeal dismissed the husband 's appeal from Mr Justice Ward who , on 17 February 1989 , had ordered him to provide his former wife with a maisonette worth £ 295,000 and a lump sum of £ 1 m . Nicholas Wall QC and Judith Hughes ( Hamlin Slowe ) for the husband ; Bruce Blair QC ( Michael Freeman & Co ) for the wife . LORD JUSTICE BUTLER - SLOSS said that the husband , who was a Yugoslav , arrived in England in 1966 at the age of 23 with a small sum of money in his pocket . He worked his way up from kitchen porter , assistant cook , employment at a casino and by painting and decorating . The wife also came from Yugoslavia to England in 1966 and took menial jobs in a hospital and as a waitress .
Idiom: under the table (used idiomatically: yes)
' Where are the men ? ' ' Under there . ' There was a wooden box under his table . She picked it up and set it on her knee , then began taking out the yellow and black wooden pieces and setting them on the board . George watched her in silence for a while and then he said in a low voice , ' I say did I offend you just now ?
Idiom: rough and tumble (used idiomatically: yes)
A magnetic physician Richard Fifield provides a perspective , and Peter J. Smith some personal recollections , of S , Keith Runcorn ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940 's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle - upon - Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three - day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic - ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism’developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep - seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . His conclusion was that the field increased with depth and was related to the Earth 's core according to the inverse cube law . R.F.
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: yes)
Then run a couple of rows of stitches to secure the keel , but again do not seal the pocket for the dowel . Now we are ready to prepare the dowels to length , and for the cross - spar , to notch the ends sufficient to engage with a ring . Stage 5 shows that the leading edge dowels do NOT reach the extreme nose unlike the spine which goes all the way from trailing edge to nose . An option to the notches in the cross - spar would be a bound hook , as sketched . A range of swivel links .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: no)
We are in thrall to the uniquely Western illusion of cheating time by investing the temporal with immortality . We refuse to accept the human and inevitable tragedy of aging , even in the case of contemporary art , which we condemn to an unwanted permanence , despite its attempt to go the way of all flesh . In this case , restoration is akin to the cosmetic procedures adopted by the American film industry , intent on transforming classics shot in black and white into full technicolour a facelift for the linguistic corpse left by the director . Of course , it is different if we intervene solely to restore the material condition of a work of art after it has been damaged by external forces such as an accident or vandalism . Since we have had to accept the loss of many works of art in the past , why not begin to humanise our relationship with contemporary creations ?
Idiom: blood and guts (used idiomatically: yes)
The violence that is being thrown at teenagers , and which they appear to love , may seem less palatable . Titles such as Christopher Pike 's Monster ( Hodder & Stoughton , £ 3.99 ) and Diane Hoh 's The Train ( Scholastic , £ 2.99 ) are American imports , which may add distance and a certain exoticness to the horrors that unfold . Both are chilling tales : blood and guts all over the place as a teenager pumps a shotgun at her school fellows in Monster , while in The Train a bunch of high school friends travelling from Chicago to San Francisco confess their guilty and vicious secrets before falling victim to savage revenge . Glossy , stylish covers and series titles such as Point Horror make them attractive , and the well - sketched characters and pacey action make them terribly readable — for those that have the stomach for them . Her next preview , of May titles , will be in the issue of 12th March .
Idiom: second nature (used idiomatically: yes)
CONCLUSION It 's difficult to fault Tascam 's 238 Syncaset . It 's a well set out machine and using it became second nature after just a couple of hours . I also like it because it does n't offer any false promises of amazing results ; instead , what it has to offer is a reasonably priced , workable upgrade from four tracks to eight with a more than creditable end result ( as long as the guidelines in the manual and certain obvious rules are observed ) . For the home studio or the small commercial demo setup a multitrack like this is going to be a real benefit .
Idiom: reds under the bed (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We will be here for some time . The wheels need to be changed for China and the officials … ’— she indicated a rank of grey - coated youths further up the platform —‘they will expect you to stand in the corridor while they search your room . So please,’ she started off towards her own compartment , ‘ no reds under the bed.’ It is indeed the room which interests them — the room , the space , into which a Trans - Siberian stowaway may be fitted . There is room for a couple : one here behind the luggage ( hunched like a cosmonaut hurtling into the unknown ) and another there beneath the bottom bunk ( blankets burying a crouched figure waiting for rebirth ) .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: yes)
All that day Rose did not come back , nor was there any message . Gabriel carried out Rose 's instructions and kept the process of work going , ignoring the intense excitement of all the women . The sense of violence and anger , together with passionate interest , spilled out all over the place . This is what it is like being on the outside of a murder case , thought Gabriel . Close to , yet outside , and it 's not good .
Idiom: fall short (used idiomatically: yes)
The sequence is completed with a reverse punch Left A diagonal roundhouse kick is fast and not easy to detect , though it usually cannons off elbows and shoulders Below Draw your front foot back as you kick and the opponent 's reverse punch will fall short Disguised roundhouse kick If you can do it properly , the following version of the roundhouse kick gives you an added advantage .
Idiom: walk of life (used idiomatically: yes)
( For more advice on how to do this see Behaviour modification on page 16 . ) Persuasiveness All of us , whatever our walk of life , are frequently in situations where we want to persuade someone or , in other words , influence someone to do what we want them to do ( eg a salesperson trying to persuade a buyer or a negotiator trying to persuade another negotiator ) . You may not consider yourself as either a salesperson or a negotiator but you are a persuader nonetheless . Think how often you have an idea that you need to ‘ sell’ to your boss or to colleagues .
Idiom: go from strength to strength (used idiomatically: yes)
DEVELOPMENT Accreditation of Prior Learning The APL scheme has gone from strength to strength this year , with highly competent managers from several factors including civic and local government , contract catering , hotels and the armed forces using this route to gain full membership . The national team of mentors has been expanded to meet the growing need for people to guide applicants through the process of identifying their areas of competence and compiling of evidence . Continuing Professional Development
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
A Clydesdale crew has admitted mistakenly racing and winning at restricted two level in the recent Prontaprint Fours Head . Campbell to run eye over top Scots ALLAN CAMPBELL , who takes up his appointment of director of coaching and development with the Scottish Badminton Union on Monday , will have the chance to run his eye over the top players when seven Scots compete in the All England Championships on 15 - 20 March . Anne Gibson and Jim Mailer , who won the respective women 's and men 's national titles earlier this month , spearhead Scotland 's challenge at the All England , and they will be backed up by Gillian Martin , Kevin Scott , Bruce Flockhart , and Gordon and Jillian Haldane . Flockhart and Jillian Haldane are also in the Scotland Under-23 squad who take on Ulster at Stranraer on 11 March .
Idiom: take a powder (used idiomatically: yes)
And , of course , ' Corbett concluded bitterly , ' our most sovereign lord the King , with his penchant for mystery and secrecy . ' Corbett walked towards her . ' I suppose , ' he remarked drily , ' the only good deed you performed was to dissuade Lady Eleanor from taking the powders Gaveston sent her . The royal catamite must have been perplexed . ' Agatha smiled .
Idiom: get stuck in (used idiomatically: yes)
If you must place one unit directly behind another , make sure it is a unit that does n't suffer from Animosity . The other thing to remember is that Mobs already engaged in hand - to - hand combat are not affected by Animosity and ca n't be attacked by another Mob that fails its Animosity test . So do n't hang around … get stuck in ! If you just stand around waiting for the enemy to come to you then of course your ladz will get bored , and naturally they 'll start to get a bit fractious , then inevitably they 'll end up failing an Animosity test probably just when you do n't want them to . You can get stuck in faster with a We 'll get ‘ em result on the Animosity Table of course , and sometimes this can really work in your favour , much to the dismay of your enemy .
Idiom: down in the mouth (used idiomatically: no)
Police fear that if crowds are swelled beyond capacity by fans using illegal tickets spectators could be crushed . Red tape puts bite on Ivy , 80 PENSIONER Ivy Groves was down in the mouth yesterday — because Government red tape will leave her without false teeth for weeks . Eighty - year - old Ivy 's gnashers were lost by Southend hospital when she had a hip operation . But new rules for NHS dentists are delaying her new set and Ivy can only take liquids .
Idiom: out and about (used idiomatically: yes)
Do you want to go with daddy and see the dickie birds ? Yes cos we ah yeah yesterday after you 'd finished after I 'd finished tried to feed him . As soon as he got out and about he was going round the house looking for you and then he just stood at the bottom of the stairs and banged until I took him upstairs and he could have a look round up there and then he realized you were n't there and then he came to me as a last hope I 'm sorry I 've got to go to work .
Idiom: high and dry (used idiomatically: yes)
The short term poses questions which are intrinsically more interesting , and to which the answers may be more surprising . It may seem natural to assume that the divergences between different European countries , which we now observe in the war phase of the Gulf crisis , will automatically be prolonged in the postwar phase as well . One might suppose , for example , that the British would be likely to emerge from the war rejoicing in a warm nostalgic glow as the gallant kid brothers of the American heroes ; that the British ( and the Americans ) would be profoundly alienated from the stay - at - home Germans ; and that the French would be left uneasily high and dry in the middle . There is in fact no compelling logic in any of these assumptions ; not merely is there no reason for assuming that Britain and Germany will have opposite policies in the postwar phase , there are real grounds for supposing that the major European countries will then start to have convergent policies . There are basically three reasons for this prediction .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
But only Parliament ban it from private land . So for now at least the fox has no reason to sleep more easily . A world record has been set for tight rope walking between two hot air balloons . Ian Ashpole walked across a steel rope just one and a half inches wide almost two miles above the earth . But he 's no stranger to dare devil stunts , he 's already made a bungee jump from more than ten thousand feet .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
He hoped it would be Gwen Evans who came , though his business was with her husband . Analysing his emotions , he came to the conclusion that Gwen 's affair with Marcus , far from making her more inaccessible , had merely confirmed her accessibility . He rang the bell once more . Almost instantly this time the door was flung open . Arthur Evans stood there .
Idiom: have a cow (used idiomatically: yes)
We had three cows . And mother used to You had three cows ? milk them and make erm make the buttermilk and we used to have buttermilk and potatoes in a basin mixed up and Oh I see .
Idiom: put two and two together (used idiomatically: yes)
In a crisis it could have doubled as a draught excluder or , if the pub got rough , as a cosh . I had my bag of reading material with me and before the pub got too crowded , I spread the map , the EXHILARATOR brochure and the file marked ‘ Cawthorne’ over a metal - legged table and got down to it . By the time the pub had filled enough so that the punters were giving me dirty looks for taking up so much room , I felt I had discovered enough to put two and two together and make five if not six . The ‘ Exhilarator’ bumph advertised the latest in executive pastimes — dressing up as soldiers and running round the countryside shooting each other with paint pellets from air guns — a sort of hide - and - seek directed by Sam Peckinpah . The address on the brochure was : Pegasus Farm , Blackberry Hill , Broughton Street , Kent , but there was no name to it .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: no)
The Whigs , however , were responsive to some of the movements of change and responsible in relation to the rest . There were some Whigs too who went much further than Grey in their willingness to innovate … In detail , Russell proposed completely to disfranchise small boroughs of less than 2,000 inhabitants , most of which were under the influence of a particular local patron , and some of which , like Old Sarum , were green mounds or heaps of stone . He went on to propose the semi - semi - disfranchisement of a second group of small boroughs with a population of under 4,000 , allowing each borough one instead of two members . Of the 168 vacancies thus created , 42 were to be filled by new borough seats , including eight new London seats and seats for Manchester , Leeds , and Birmingham ; 55 were to be devoted to the provision of additional members for countries , to augment what had traditionally been regarded as the most " independent " element in the representative system ; and nine new places were to be given to Scotland , Ireland and Wales .
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
' Oh , thank you , sir . Thank you . ' Dick did not immediately hand the small cap back to Martin but , taking a clean handkerchief out of the top pocket of his short , thick coat , he wiped the rim of it , then handed it back , saying again , ' Thank you , sir . ' Nice chap , Dick ; best of the bunch . Strange he had to father two sluts of women .
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
But we 'll have to go out . No , well I 've got my fog lamps on . Oh I 'm not going in the car in the fog . Well I ai n't going out on that Fox again . Well we 'll go on the corporation buses .
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: no)
In fact , er , an estimated one hundred and sixty three , six forty pounds is required , erm , following on from the sale of link waste , and of that eighty - five thousand pounds wa relates to the legal costs associated with the sale . It seems that there a a a large figure . It is a large figure , but the County Council was breaking er , new ground in the sale of link waste , and it was necessary to engage specialist lawyers , erm , Lond a firm of er , London solicitors er , to assist in the in the process , and members will recall that in fact , the the proceeds from the sale of link waste were four point two million pounds initially , with potentially another four hundred thousand pounds , erm , once certain conditions were satisfied . In addition to that , another one hundred and eighty thousand pounds is required for the on- going maintenance of some closed sites dealing with problems and and also to some legal and consultancy fees in connection with a an after - care dispute . So the total of the four hundred and fifty thousand pounds that is now being requested , it 's three hundred and forty - three forty .