Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: slippery slope (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ She knows he ca n't be prosecuted and so does he . She wished he could be charged because he thinks it might bring home to him the seriousness of what he has done and scare him enough to stop . She realises he is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime.’ Police get new clues in hunt for killer DOZENS of new leads have come from members of the public after a reconstruction of the last moments of stabbed businesswoman Jean Bradley , police said yesterday .
Idiom: watch this space (used idiomatically: yes)
If you 've enjoyed this month 's Brides Special you 'll love next month 's too ! We 've got lots more beautiful style ideas to show you plus there 'll be a chance for you to win a fabulous bridal make - over and appear in the magazine . Watch this space ! A dream come true — this elegant style was achieved by setting hair on flexible stylers with Clynol 's Styleset . The crisp curls were then carefully worked through with Salon Formula Mousse for a softer , more delicate wave .
Idiom: on the horn (used idiomatically: yes)
' I think one follows the other , ' his father said mildly . A groom was leading a pair of matched sorrel st'lyan at the trot around the beaten clay of an exercise ring . The gilding on the st'lyan 's horns glittered as they tossed their heads . Suragai watched critically , then waved a hand . ' Good , Arvid .
Idiom: to boot (used idiomatically: no)
However , the continuing and , to some , insoluble , problem of the licence fee and the advent of new means of television distribution — satellite television , cable television — and different ways of paying for those services — subscription , sponsorship , advertising or pay - per - view — significantly alter the parameters of British broadcasting . There is now room for a radical rethink of the foundations of British broadcasting . For economic libertarians , the starting point for such a reform is the licence fee itself which they have lung regarded as an outdated imposition on the public and a regressive tax to boot . ( See also pp . 00 — 00 . ) Others , most notably the members of the Peacock Committee on Financing the BBC ( 1986 ) , have seen the question of the licence fee as a small , but key , part of the much needed review of British broadcasting .
Idiom: dead and buried (used idiomatically: yes)
No it Subject to All Gascoigne 's multi million pound move to Lazio now looks dead and buried . The Italian club have bid for Darco Pansere the red star striker whose penalty won his side the European Cup in Bari on Wednesday . And he will cost Lazio just four million .
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
Man dies on work training trek AN INQUIRY is under way after a man collapsed and died yesterday while trekking through mountains as part of a management training course . The 46-year - old married man collapsed in freezing fog while walking at 600 ft in the Brecon Beacons in Powys , mid Wales . Police said last night that he was thought to have suffered a heart attack . With visibility down to 15 yards , rescue teams struggled to reach the man , but a doctor pronounced him dead .
Idiom: take the mickey (used idiomatically: no)
All the victims were kept in hospital . The corporal was being questioned last night by police after the attacks in Paderborn , Germany . Newlyweds take Mickey A ROMANTIC couple have become the first Britons to we d in Disney World , Florida . Bride Laura Browne , 34 , arrived to tie the knot with 38-year - old Robbie Carter in Cinderella 's glass coach , drawn by six white ponies .
Idiom: give someone pause (used idiomatically: yes)
Initially he was unsure about accepting the job . ‘ I was a bit worried about taking a show that has been one of the great musical hits of all time , which I felt was a bit of fluff with one big smash song,’ he said . ‘ I was quite worried about making it hold up on the screen for two - and - a - half hours and it gave me pause . Then , my curiosity and the challenge took over and I accepted the job.’ The $ 24,000,000 production was to be an unmitigated disaster and was to bring Twentieth Century - Fox close to bankruptcy when it found out that the heyday of the film musical was past .
Idiom: step on it (used idiomatically: no)
Nor does it resemble the bravura footing of Kitri in the Don Quixote pas de deux or the passages in Ashton 's Ondine where his ballerina appears to be floating through water . Nor can it be compared with the ballerina 's dance in Rhapsodie where she wafts to and fro as if in a dream before breaking into her solo . The spacing of such steps on pointe is so minute and so fast that it is not possible to see the change of feet as one succeeds the other . It is this same delicate use of pointes throughout Ashton 's ballets which gives extra finesse to the danseuses ' work . One of the most subtle finishing touches that pointes give is to Bottom in The Dream when he is transformed into an ass .
Idiom: run riot (used idiomatically: yes)
A rather tasteless melange of Wellington and Edith Cresson , Nelson and Trafalgar seemed designed to provide the missing edge and allay the self doubts . France was a side torn apart between Trillo 's desire to make risk a factor in the gameplan and Dubroca who , as the spiritual heir to Fouroux , had favoured the safety - first approach , no matter what he may have said in public . The French struggled for nearly sixty minutes against a generous but raw Romania , ran riot against a Fijian side well below par and short of the menacing inspiration that made them a fearsome proposal in 1987 , while the game against Canada exposed the shortcomings that England later exploited with relish . However , despite their obvious inability to concentrate and regain the magic form of the previous Five Nations campaign , the French failed to lower their sights . Defeat was simply not contemplated , hence the bitterness of the aftermath .
Idiom: jack of all trades (used idiomatically: yes)
Tony ? Well he works in a Jack of all trades . Oh . He does a bit of everything .
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
The problem with the building was that they had made it suicide - proof , so there were no windows you could open on the front . ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . To his credit , or possibly his ignorance , Michael then immediately filmed the next scene , where he had to be seen on the underside of a fire engine 's turntable ladder twenty feet up in the air , being lowered to the ground . He said afterwards that , if he had n't done that , he would never again have stepped even on a carpet.’ Ware , widely regarded as Britain 's top TV stunt artist and arranger , ran an agency called Havoc , which advised Crawford on his dangerous routines throughout the first two series of Some Mothers Do ' Ave ' Em .
Idiom: nuts and bolts (used idiomatically: yes)
People like Masklin and Angalo and Gurder can make people listen to them , but you do n't seem to keep their attention.’ ‘ Oh.’ ‘ But you can make nuts and bolts listen to you . Not everyone can do that.’ Dorcas thought about this .
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
It lacks the large and heterogenous left - wing presses , the genuinely mass parties ( even after splits and dissolution , the former Italian Communists approach one million members ) and the associational networks that root socialism in the crucial spheres of business and leisure . These institutions provide two - way streets between the organised left and the communities/ identities they seek to represent . The Euro - Left is now looking beyond traditional social democracy , while the Labour Party struggles to come to terms with the old model . Hall is right to say that current Labour and Liberal parties can not take on the task of realignment , but would be equally correct in saying they ca n't be by - passed . The overriding task for those who want change must , therefore , be to transform these parties and their identities , by breaking down the ghetto walls between them and the ‘ dispersed left’ in academia and the public services , and between these groups and the myriad of collective identities for which they presume to speak .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
No gathering of the clan was really gathered properly until Richard arrived , sartorially plumed and bearing the news from Aix to Brent . In my third year I learned to adore the man ; he can virtually do what he likes and I 'll still adore him . He is a collector 's item as full of hot air as he is of magical ideas . He 's Professor Brainstawm in Bermudas and I 'm delighted to play the housekeeper , Mrs Flittersnoop , to his crackpot inventor . And , of course , my whingeing deadpan counterfoils his explosive energy , and we indulge in some devilish flights of fantasy around the thoughts of Chairperson Beattie .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
If , being true , they both portray certain aspects of reality , just what is meant by " reality " ? That the question is not an idle one can be seen if one looks a little more closely at the second of our two examples . On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania . But if the asserted proposition is about Ruritania , then surely it must be false , for in that case the subject term has a reference , i.e. there is something for the proposition to be true about If , on the other hand , the proposition is true , then by the same token it can not be about Ruritania , for Ruritania does not exist ; it is fiction . This ancient puzzle has prompted some philosophers to draw a distinction between " being " and actual existence , and to claim that what is being talked about in such cases has being , even though it does not exist in reality .
Idiom: up a tree (used idiomatically: no)
In the above organisation , with only one parent , the LIFESPAN manager would soon become overburdened . At the other extreme , it is possible to create a very deep tree of users , as in figure 2.4 . In this case , all deficiencies would be notified more sensibly up the tree from user to parent , and so on . However , it allows all users to access each others modules , since everyone is part of the one family . While perhaps reasonable for a very small group , it could soon become a ' free for all ' in a larger organisation .
Idiom: under a cloud (used idiomatically: yes)
Forgive and forget if possible . LIBRA : Sep 24 to Oct 23 Time to come out from under a cloud and enjoy yourself . If you can mix business with pleasure , so much better . There are some good opportunities for advancement if only you can grab them quickly .
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: yes)
Although stage technicians are indispensable , their job is one of the most thankless tasks in show business . If they do their job well , you forget they 're there . But if something goes wrong , it 's all their fault .
Idiom: to boot (used idiomatically: yes)
So we came back in the dark , there were fifteen of us in th this jeep bouncing up and down so that was quite fun too . Erm our last few days we were meant to see Everest and the beautiful Himalayas but the monsoon did n't er finish so were n't ab able to see that but we understood they were there somewhere . The other exciting thing was the leeches er because the monsoon had n't finished there were lots of leeches around , and I 'd imagined these huge things that were going to suck me to death , but they 're actually little , like , just very very tiny little worms , about erm an inch long and very thin and what they do is they sit on leaves and things and as you walk by they get flicked on to your boots or your socks and then they wiggle their way in and they , you ca n't feel them there , but what they do is they suck your blood until they explode Ooh ! so you er you take your shoe your socks off and you find you 've got a , some blood in your socks , and that 's where a leech had been .
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: no)
Ultimately , of course , the decision will turn on whether any of the plaintiffs can produce convincing evidence that the fourteen superb fourth - century vessels were found within their territories . Both Sotheby 's and the lawyers for Lord Northampton have assured us that up till now they have not seen a shred of proof . As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests , however , it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back . Now that the Croatian Commission has been confirmed in its role , and the archaeologist who first put pressure on the government in Belgrade to put in the claim has become Minister of Culture , we may begin to see some of the evidence they say they have collected . Art baptism
Idiom: hope against hope (used idiomatically: yes)
Swod was of the generation that reached for an extra layer of clothing rather than turn the heating on . He looked up again , the head dignified and earnest . ‘ But people hope against hope . Its one of their most endearing characteristics,’ he said , as if they were fools . ‘ some Poles hoped that although things were desperate , the West would do something after all .
Idiom: keep your head (used idiomatically: no)
Sitting in his gambrel shack on the skyline , brains fairly addled with hallucinogenic drugs , de Quincey was left very much to his own devices by the good Mistress Tosh . Among the dream visions that came to the strange visitor to the Clydeside were ‘ The Spanish Military Nun’ , ‘ The Revolt of the Tartars’ , and ‘ On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth ’ . De Quincey was more or less in hiding from Edinburgh people to whom he owed large sums of money , so Glasgow , a thriving and blackening metropolis of 365 , 000 souls , was the ideal place in which to eat your opium and keep your head down . A FISH , A GIANT , A BLACKSMITH , AND TWO GODS 1856 A.D. There were Dram - Divans and Music Saloons , the Hairy Man of Java , kilted magicians and panoramic views of Volcanic Eruptions and Satan ‘s Revolting Army .
Idiom: on the trot (used idiomatically: yes)
Did reasonable at the back and up front though . Those who have 2 Arse defenders should be laughing . 6 clean sheets on the trot ( although some of those were cup games ) . Hands up who thinks the scoring for clean sheets is a bit OTT ? Surely it should be worth more for scoring a goal ?
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's grown all over the garden . Cos they 've only got paving , crazy paving . It 's gone up the wall over the top It all comes through do n't it ? I never knew anything could grow that quick .
Idiom: good offices (used idiomatically: yes)
independently elected employee representation on the board , or full and up - to - date disclosure of information covering a fund 's financial state or the allocation of its surpluses . As there is no provision either for fully protecting the interests of fund members , the Government 's proposed regulation on self - investment is irrelevant to what has been revealed in respect of the MGN pension fund . Millions of employees and pensioners are deeply worried about the future of their pension funds as a result of the MGN revelations , so will you , Mr. Speaker , use your good offices to seek an early statement to the House by the Secretary of State , so that the public 's doubts and apprehensions can be allayed ? Several Hon . Members Further to that point of order , Mr. Speaker .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
Colm Henry agrees : ' You see , it 's in the interests of the equipment companies to turn people into equipment junkies . They sell most of that stuff to amateurs , naturally ! In their advertising the emphasis is always on telling you that if you have the latest lens you 'll get the best picture , and that you should continually update your equipment . But buying equipment for its own sake is pointless . It 's just keeping all those Japanese companies in business . '
Idiom: save face (used idiomatically: yes)
That is how such an absurd position has been reached in the middle of a horrific recession , with genocide in Yugoslavia and economic collapse threatening in the East . At the Edinburgh summit the richest , most powerful European nations waste their time desperately seeking for a clever-dick way to con Danish voters in a second referendum . They are trying to save face for John Major , President Mitterrand and Chancellor Kohl . Instead , they should be trying to save their nations ' economies . The past year has proved that Maastricht is an irrelevancy .
Idiom: bring the house down (used idiomatically: yes)
So , just one day to go but what a day . Tomorrow the glittering prize is on offer , the Cheltenham Tote Gold Cup . Can Desert Orchid the champion bring the house down and win . And can Gloucestershire champion jockey Peter Scudamore do it on ? Can the Condicote team of David Nicholson , Richard Dunwoody and last year 's champion do it again ?
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: no)
His wife Sara , 42 , covered her eyes with her hand and sobbed . Her husband reached for her hand to comfort her as the legal wrangling continued . Mr Roache , of Wilmslow , Cheshire , had told the court he was ‘ devastated and humiliated’ by a November 1990 article which said he was smug and self - satisfied like his screen character and had been universally nicknamed ‘ BKB — Boring Ken Barlow,’a reputation he had earned both on and off the screen . BILL ROACHE appeal over costs Jewel theft brings alert
Idiom: get a life (used idiomatically: yes)
' Well , she did n't admire Simon — the way she admires Michel now ; I can see how much she does , that 's why I am so for it . And he is admirable . The austere ideal , the man who acts out his principles and endures what is — can you imagine Michel Devaux saying as my father so often did , I 've only got one life and so much time , I ca n't afford to stand back ? Yet , Simon was right for himself ? What would he have had if he 'd played the stoic ?
Idiom: up the river (used idiomatically: no)
Some case studies Let us look at a few Elizabethan towns in more detail , starting with York , the secular and ecclesiastical capital of Northern England , a county town and large commercial centre . Its annual fairs and three weekly markets brought sellers and purchasers from miles around and goods from overseas were brought up the river Ouse right into the heart of the city , York remained one of the leading provincial centres , despite its decline to less than 8,000 people in the 1520s after the collapse of its cloth industry and the decay of its overseas trade . By the end of Elizabeth 's reign its population had risen to 11,500 , and though this was 2,500 less than the total number of inhabitants 200 years earlier , York had climbed back from sixth to third position amongst England 's provincial cities . The youthful immigrants who swelled the population were attracted not only from the Vale of York but from far beyond .
Idiom: round the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
This is what it was all about , to push the Germans back , mile by mile , no matter how long or what dreadful toll it might take , until they were safely confined behind their own boundaries again . It was like a shot in the arm for us , and our tiredness fell away . The RAF ground crews , the unsung heroes of this time , continued to work round the clock , the air crews seemed never to be out of their aeroplanes , and the rest of us waltzed through our duties with the exhilarating feeling that at last things were on the move in the right direction . The Met Office , naturally , came in for its usual rounds of flak through the unpredictability of the English weather . We girls were only the workhorses really — we read the instruments , plotted the charts , made the tea and kept the office clean , and were not meant to be able to give a weather forecast .
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
The attribute whiteness ( it may be said ) is not the fact of receiving the sensation , but something in the object itself ; a power inherent in it ; something in virtue of which the object produces the sensation’ . But the only foundation for this view is ‘ the disposition , wherever we meet with two names which are not precisely synonymous , to suppose that they must be the names of two different things’ . The reasonable conclusion is that one and the same thing is ‘ called a sensation when considered merely in itself , and a quality when looked at in relation to any one of the numerous objects , the presence of which to our organs excites in our minds that among various other sensations or feelings . The last sentence of this summary repays careful study . Compare it with the sentence : ‘ That sensation is excited in our minds by the presence to our organs of any one of numerous objects.’
Idiom: go to town (used idiomatically: no)
Meanwhile the deputy Mayor and Mayoress , Coun Jim Vaughan and his sister Eva Bell undertake a busy three days of civic engagements in place of the Woodheads . Tomorrow they are expected to visit Stockton Anchorage Drop - in Centre , Dovecot Street . On Wednesday they attend the launch of BBC Radio Goes to Town at the Town Hall , followed by the John Butterwick Trust annual ecumenical thanksgiving service at Stockton parish church . On Thursday they are at the annual meeting of the British Red Cross , Cleveland County branch , at Cleveland Scientific Institute , Middlesbrough . KEY DEFENDER Anton Rogan flew to Belfast yesterday to link up with the Northern Ireland squad and will miss Sunderland 's home game tonight against Swindon Town .
Idiom: close shave (used idiomatically: yes)
PENICUIK Man hunted after sex attack A 33-YEAR - OLD woman was sexually assaulted by a man in Cairnbank Road , Penicuik , early yesterday . Police , who have appealed for information , described her attacker as about 40 , slim , with a thin face and close - shaved grey beard and moustache . He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . COWDENBEATH Girl , 8 , orphaned by house blaze
Idiom: call it quits (used idiomatically: yes)
But riots , unlike war , have no established rules of conduct . 2.45AM The point is brought home when a band of looters turn their anger on me . As 12-ounce cans of vegetables bounce off the side of my car , one of them smashing my rearview mirror and another sailing with surprising accuracy through my open car window and striking me on the shoulder , I decide to call it quits for the night and return in daylight . In my fear and confusion , I turn left instead of right , however , and drive deeper into South Central than before . Fuck !
Idiom: spare the rod and spoil the child (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ He 's not the only one that uses the belt , Aggie . You know that . And it 's part of the Christian doctrine , you know , spare the rod and spoil the child.’ And he added somewhat sneeringly , ‘ Jesus loves little children , they say . Well , He 's the only one who seems to , yet He does n't do much about it .
Idiom: out on a limb (used idiomatically: yes)
So how ? Do you remember how your grandfather and father felt about the Strike ? Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . Mm . Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it .
Idiom: on the make (used idiomatically: no)
Although your tenancy agreement may be with the agent many courts are making landlords pick up the debt . You have nothing to lose by taking action in the small claims court . IF the property is on mortgage make sure the lender knows you are the tenant . Then you will be given fair warning if the borrower defaults on repayments . TO check who holds a mortgage on a property get the Leaflet On The Open Register from : The Land Registry , 32 , Lincolns Inn Fields , London , WC2A 3PH .