Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: above board (used idiomatically: yes)
Paint them deep matt , eggshell or shiny gloss and hang them with pictures or a collection of some sort . Use one of the attractive paint techniques which are re - gaining popularity : sponging , rag rolling or dragging . Stencil a border round the ceiling , around the door and windows , and above the skirting boards . Wallpaper them or cover them with fabric : felt , hessian , sacking , lining fabric or printed cotton . Panel them with wood , line them with cork , strip the plaster back to the brick ; the choice is endless .
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: yes)
R said that he did not really know F beforehand but had seen him and his brothers once before when someone had told him who F was . The Crown sought leave to ask R if the man he knew as F was in court . The judge agreed and F and his two brothers changed places in the dock . R then identified F as the man he knew by that name . A further witness named F as the attacker but likewise said that he did not know F , though he had seen him .
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
But you could write your equation that way . Er if someone says that 's not good enough , I want it in terms of Y equals well okay we 'll have to bring the three over to this side , and take the fourth root , . But you can always swap the axes , if you do n't like what they give you . Mm .
Idiom: hold court (used idiomatically: no)
The shadow of the 1259 treaty inevitably fell over the history of the Plantagenet administration of the duchy of Aquitaine in the later thirteenth century . The appellate jurisdiction of the Paris Parlement not only over the three dioceses of Limoges , Càhors and Périgueux , but the whole of the duchy , meant that a constant ducal presence at Paris was necessary . This was what sovereignty really meant — the king of France 's right to hold a supreme court of appeal . The king - duke 's rights had therefore to be defended by his proctors at Paris and , above all , by the seneschals of Aquitaine themselves . Hence the office became almost a non - resident one in the 1280s .
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: yes)
' Better get back , I reckon , ' Yanto grunted , looking at Billy 's watch . Giving the still busy Josh a parting wave , the two of them started back . After crossing the dock channel by way of the lock gates catwalk , they paused for a while watching and listening to the bedlam of noise from the riveting guns as the shipyard men worked on a small coastal tanker in the dry dock . ' Amazin ' how much bigger they look out of the water , ' commented Billy . They walked on down the wharf until they reached the ' Marit ' , still talking about the coming Friday night .
Idiom: out of line (used idiomatically: yes)
BOSNIAN defenders threw reinforcements into the defence of two key Sarajevo suburbs yesterday , resisting Serb tank , artillery and infantry attacks with rifles and home - made grenades . ' This is difficult , very difficult , ' said one Bosnian soldier as he crouched in a trench about to sprint across open ground under the sights of Serb gunners . As his unit of 25 men tried to reinforce a company under assault by a tank , a dozen soldiers came out of the tree line near the suburbs on the western edge of Sarajevo . They were clearly fresh from the battle . One man dragged a light machinegun as he made his way through the trench .
Idiom: in this day and age (used idiomatically: yes)
At that price , Gordon Gray , of Over Kirkhope , Ettrick , Selkirk , bought 320 units for a grand total of £ 14,382 — including value - added tax . Another to pay out a substantial sum was one of Scotland 's leading hill farmers , William Mitchell of Hazelside , Douglas , Lanark , who bought 102 units of quota at £ 46 . Mr Mitchell , clearly reflecting on his transaction , commented later : ' In this day and age , farming is far more than a way of life — it 's a business and you 've got to be in there to protect the right to keep sheep . ' We know what the rules are at present but the bureaucrats in Brussels could easily shift the goalposts . I regard the £ 46 per head that I have paid as a sound and solid investment .
Idiom: hit the headlines (used idiomatically: yes)
The quiet Gloucestershire village of Charfield was on the main line of the LMS , situated between Gloucester and Bristol . The local Station served the surrounding community and carried a fair amount of passenger and freight traffic . The village hit the headlines , however , in a tragic way when an accident and fire happened on 13 October 1928 . The driver of the 10 pm LMS passenger and mail train seemingly overran a home signal at danger and plunged into the rear of the 9.15pm Oxley sidings to Bristol GWR fitted goods before finally colliding with another freight , the 4.45 Westerleigh to Gloucester empties , that was passing on the opposite line . Interlocking would have prevented the signalman putting the signals for the express at ‘ CLEAR’ yet it is strange that although both footplatemen on the express admitted not having seen the home signal on the approach to Charfield both men were equally emphatic that they had seen the proceeding distant signal and they said it was showing a green light and in the clear position .
Idiom: get the better of (used idiomatically: yes)
Timman started the game very aggressively . Speelman responded with a vigorous counter - attack and the game dissolved into massive complications . When Speelman seemed to be getting the better of it , Timman suddenly sacrificed two pieces to expose his opponent 's king . Speelman had to give up his queen to avoid being mated , but by that time he had so many pieces for it that he was still able to draw comfortably . Timman leads in the match by 2 - 1 .
Idiom: come clean (used idiomatically: yes)
Anyone who believes they might be able to help the police with the inquiry should contact Basildon police station , the Laindon traffic police unit or the Essex Crimestoppers line on ( 0245 ) 252252 . PM told to come clean over claim of sell - off hitlist AN ESSEX MP yesterday urged the Prime Minister to come clean about a ‘ sensational’ list of Government services which it is believed he would like to place in private hands . Andrew MacKinlay , Labour MP for Thurrock , said he believed the Government was now heading for a ‘ crazy course of action’ to privatise services even with a high security content . Mr MacKinlay said he had heard of the existence of a list of services , some of which appeared in The Observer newspaper yesterday .
Idiom: lie low (used idiomatically: no)
‘ A cave can be a trap . But there are other kinds of shelter . Would you lie low , if it came to it?’ ‘ And skulk like a fox ? Until I starved ?
Idiom: spot on (used idiomatically: yes)
Did you know that the Bass VI had a bridge - mounted mike ( missing from your sample ) ? → When you think of Fender 's seeming unwillingness to bring the reissues of the Indie - cred Jaguar into this country , Jim , I think we 'll probably wait a very long time before a Bass VI emanates from anywhere other than the Fender Custom Shop — a facility available to the wad - carrying fanatic . As far as exactly who was the most famous exponent of the six - string bass , I think Gibson was spot on , but I do acknowledge that Jet Harris played a considerable role in the history of the instrument . As far as the reference to the ‘ customary’ tuning of the 6-string bass , Gibson was referring to what has become the modern standard amongst contemporary players : that is , opting for the low B while keeping the fourths tuning intact across the other five strings . PITCH SHIFTER
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
The recognition that we can not give complete holist explanations of social phenomena does not undermine the centrality of the intuition to which the doctrine , in its various forms , is a response : the sense that many properties of individuals , whether tastes , aspirations , beliefs , expectations or habits , are to an over - whelming extent formed by society . The question of how we are to construct explanations that reflect this insight is not swept away by the conclusion that one approach to the task is inadequate , and the problem therefore remains as pressing as ever . In a further attempt to come to terms with it , a number of social theorists have concentrated on exactly the sort of counterfactual analysis that we found used , but not discussed , by Poulantzas . By asking what conditions would have obtained if particular individuals had behaved differently , they have aimed to give a clearer analysis both of the defining characteristics of holism , and of its relations to individualism . As a result , they have arrived at a view which I shall call ‘ concessive’ holism .
Idiom: lie low (used idiomatically: no)
In Padang , even with advance warning of a tsunami , higher ground is too far away , and the narrow streets too choked with traffic , for many people to get to safety in time . GeoHazards International is therefore working on a more practical idea , which it calls a Tsunami Evacuation Raised Earth ~ Park ( TEREP ) . The idea is to build small hills in low - lying parts of the city , with level tops that could be used as parks or sports fields . With the few minutes ' warning that an earthquake 's strong shaking would automatically provide , people could walk to a TEREP and be safe above the highest level a tsunami could reach .
Idiom: go to the wall (used idiomatically: yes)
Somehow , Reg Pybus , who is such a square he even has a mono Walkman , refused to drink with the match only hours away , and so managed to get the team into their kit and out on to the pitch . I remember nothing whatever about the match , as I passed out thirty yards from the ground . On Sunday I heard that Sidcombe have gone to the wall . This must surely mean we will not be relegated . As I told Denny d'Arcy , the Sidcombe manager , when I rang up to say good riddance , ‘ We are just the amoeba on the European footer lake .
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: yes)
This goal was achieved in later years and was to prove invaluable . It was soon realised that the Cutters fitted into the new approach to Customs work very well . They had always been a task force in their own right and had a head start in this respect with their trained crews specialising in interceptions at sea and rummage duties , traditional skills which could now be deployed more swiftly and utilised more efficiently by use of new radio equipment and position finding navigational aids such as radar and Decca Navigators . But however professional we may have considered ourselves as seamen , our administration never allowed us to forget that first and foremost we were customs officers . The boats and their equipment were merely instruments with which to carry out our prime duties of protecting the revenue .
Idiom: rough edges (used idiomatically: yes)
Leave the dish undisturbed overnight . Since the dish has sloping sides , the block of plaster should slide out easily . Remove the boxes and Plasticine , and tidy up the rough edges , using a craft knife . The housing is now ready to receive the ants . FINDING ANTS
Idiom: point the finger (used idiomatically: no)
And I think that our concern is to try and see how that can be improved and , and possibly the underlying reason for that is that erm we all feel that unless we take it seriously , the kind of disasters that increasingly affect developing countries , and try to make our own assistance more rational , more respectful in a way of , of them and their cultures , then I think we 're storing up an enormous amount of trouble for ourselves in the future . Whereas I think in this country that there are adequate channels and mechanisms for people to protest , or , you know , for others to protest on their behalf . It would clearly be very difficult to compare one disaster to another , in fact I 'm not even sure you could do it from a grammatical point of view , but if you were to point your finger somewhere in the world and say , ' We really ought to look at what 's happening here , or what might happen there , ' could you think of one outstanding example ? Yes , I 'm afraid I can , very immediately and very clearly indeed , and that is famine . We , we felt at the end of the seventies that there was no question that the eighties was going to be a decade of increasing food shortages , and widespread famine , that is , people literally dying for want of food .
Idiom: put paid to (used idiomatically: yes)
Cover was admittedly thin at lower levels , about 6 or 7 in , but it contrasted markedly with recent seasons when skiing to the carpark was a rarity even in mid - February . Higher up , there were already drifts of between 4 and 5 ft . Skiing in November is not unheard of in Scotland : last year it snowed heavily in the west Highlands in October but the warmer weather in December and January put paid to any hopes of building up a decent depth of snow pack . But this year it was Cairngorm , further east , which got off to the flying start . Glenshee and Glencoe all had cover but not enough to justify running the lifts .
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Can we reconvene at er twenty past eleven please . Can we er now embark on this assessment or analysis of the relevance of the criteria ? Bearing in mind that er we 'd like to try and distinguish those which would fall within a structure plan umbrella and those which would be more applicable possibly at local plan level . And also I 'd like an indication as we go through of the relative weights that you might want to give to individual criterion . It 's alright ah .
Idiom: win the day (used idiomatically: yes)
But as only a small percentage of the US tuna fleet captures dolphins , Boxer argues that her Bill will actually give US tuna processors a competitive advantage in the US market , because foreign fleets are more likely to use methods harmful to dolphins . The European Parliament has also been lobbied to ban the import of all yellowfin tuna , and consumer boycotts are already underway in several European countries . As this book goes to print , it seems that consumer pressure has finally won the day and forced a re - evaluation of corporate policy by the major US tuna canners . In April 1990 Starkist Seafood , the world 's largest tuna canner with 35 per cent of the huge US market , announced that they would no longer buy tuna which had been caught by encircling dolphins . The new policy applies not only to purse - seining in the Eastern Tropical Pacific , but also to all tuna caught anywhere with gill - nets , whether drift - nets or set - nets .
Idiom: walk all over (used idiomatically: no)
Of course , it is premature to propose Mr Lang to the Pope for canonisation . But , when the times comes , his proposers look as if they will have an incontestable piece of evidence . After all , ‘ Blessed Lang of Galloway’ may be the only Secretary of State to have walked all over water . Something funny about this poster protesting against Mr Lang 's visit to the Edinburgh University Union ? Perhaps it 's the editor of Living Marxism who should think about going back to an educational establishment ?
Idiom: play it safe (used idiomatically: yes)
NEWPORT BEACH – Imagine for a moment that you are the chief policymaker in a successful emerging - market country . You are watching with legitimate concern ( and a mixture of astonishment and anger ) as Europe ’s crippling debt crisis spreads and America ’s dysfunctional politics leave it unable to revive its moribund economy . Would you draw comfort from your country ’s impressive internal resilience and offset the deflationary winds blowing from the West ; or would you play it safe and increase your country ’s precautionary reserves ? That is the question facing several emerging - market economies , and its impact extends well beyond their borders . Indeed , it is a question that also speaks to the increasingly worrisome outlook for the global economy .
Idiom: nuts and bolts (used idiomatically: yes)
So but there again if I get the enquiries fas I mean , that obviously is the enquiry came through to me so obviously I quoted on it but Yeah . anything like nuts and bolts , fixings , fasteners , that type of thing go , has to go through the They only stop them cos I hang on to choice int draw . Well it 's
Idiom: mean business (used idiomatically: yes)
She tried to feel pleased that she had n't descended from such uncompromising stock , but it was still a shock to have been told that William Ash was not her father , and that Eddie had only been her half - brother . She longed to get home , to question her mother , but her brain would not let her hang on to these indulgences . She had to face up to the fact that her father meant business , and that once more Ace was going to be put into an impossible position because of her . Somehow she doubted that he 'd now ever believe she was innocent of her father 's plans , and that , if her father was successful in forcing Ace 's hand , she would be the one who would suffer . She could n't help but wonder why fate had insisted that these two powerful men should have insisted on using her to gain their own ends — her father for a return to power and motor racing , Ace for sex , because she now realised he 'd wanted her all along .
Idiom: bear fruit (used idiomatically: yes)
Selby has has a particular problem , its its economy is narrowly focused , it suffers high unemployment . The point I make is that the the allocations that we are making are not going to solve the problem across the full spectrum of the economy , they are targeted . I think we might well we could be in a cul - de - sac here or a discussion which er could cease to bear any fruit very rapidly . Could we er Are you s can we j ask Mr Cunnane is he suggesting that I five definition the second line of the policy should be widened ?
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: yes)
She cared , desperately , when the Curtis Cup side was read out at Bissett 's Hotel , Gullane , and she was not in the team , but that was more because of wounded pride than anything else , for the match was to be played at Muirfield and she was a native of East Lothian linksland . But the real on - course caring was not to return fully until she turned professional at the start of 1984 . Eighth on the money list in 1984 with earnings to the tune of £ 8,957 , she won £ 21,234 in 1985 to finish as high as second behind Laura Davies . Just as everyone took it for granted that the young Scot was on the point of fulfilling the potential she had shown in the amateur game , so she stopped in her tracks . In 1986 , she finished 18th , in 1987 , 9th and in 1988 , 16th .
Idiom: beg the question (used idiomatically: yes)
This , unfortunately , they do not have . Prejudice aside for one brief moment , the Republic have shown the best form in the group so far , and if there was even the merest scintilla of justice in this doomed planet , they would now be checking out copies of In Stockholm magazine with a view to disporting themselves in the most agreeable Nite Spots that the Swedish capital has to offer . Meanwhile their current unsatisfactory situation begs the question : are Jack and his squad now deeply in the red with their account at the Luck Bank . When Gary Mackay scored that legendary goal for Scotland against Bulgaria , how big of an inroad did it make into the Republic 's capital of Jammy Breaks ? Quite a lot , it appears from the matches in this group , the results of which are starting to bring back disturbing visions of those horrendous days under Eoin Hand , when the baleful gods of fortune were using the Republic 's aspirations as a kind of exclusive latrine .
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: yes)
How is it that police forces such as Lothian and Borders are this year reporting crime rates back down to the levels of 1981 ? But then maybe there is something different about Scotland which we need to cling on to . Indeed , at times like this , may be it is useful simply to restate what , for many people , is so obvious it often goes without saying . Let me give some examples . We have in Scotland a unique system of juvenile justice .
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: yes)
Another attraction at the Contest was the opening of our model dog register . We 're always on the look - out for a well - behaved dog to pose for our cover shots — and we often get enquiries from other media , too . We 're looking for all types of dog — well - known and exotic breeds of dog , crossbreeds , mixtures , dogs that can do tricks … you name it . If you would like to put your dog on our register simply send us a stamped addressed envelope and we 'll send you a form . Write in for this free service to :
Idiom: take the plunge (used idiomatically: yes)
Richard Barker commented : ‘ We were pleased with our catalogue but it is difficult to quantify just how much extra business these kinds of promotional tools generate.’ Lois Brown was certain that the catalogue had a marked effect on sales in Belfast . Not to be outdone , Pentos also took the plunge and produced its own 48-page , fully illustrated catalogue for all its shops ( last year it took the PN catalogue . It was certainly worth us doing our own,’ said Frank Brazier . ‘ We can judge by the rate of sale of books in the catalogue , and we were pleased with it .
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: yes)
Council say they 'll beat the British National Party . Episcopalians in a moral dilemma over the appointment of woman priests . And we meet the couple whose wedding literally started on the rocks . Leslie Hinds , the leader of Edinburgh District Council , is at the centre of a jobs for the girls row . Questions have been raised following new developments over the Tommy Sheppard saga , the council official who 's paid to do nothing .
Idiom: fall by the wayside (used idiomatically: yes)
The rough had ended the hopes of many an illustrious name : defending champion Sandy Lyle , Tom Watson , who , like Ballesteros had complained about the narrow fairways and deep dune grass fringing them , and Craig Stadler , who shot an 82 and then pulled out of the tournament with a sprained wrist . Stadler blamed the clinging rough for his injury . Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . Practice partner Jack Nicklaus also had an ignominious start , and even Norman himself had contemplated whether he might sue the Royal & Ancient if he injured himself in the dune grass . Greg 's first round 74 had not done any damage , though , and he went on to inflict a body - blow on the course , the rest of the field , and the title .
Idiom: down at heel (used idiomatically: yes)
Driving across the flat and prosperous farmlands of Picardy and through the shabby industrial suburbs of Charleroi and Liège to the German / Belgian frontier on which Aachen sits , the first thing you notice is its novelty . Having had the misfortune to have good rail links , a large aerodrome and to be within easy reach , Aachen was a regular target for Allied bombing raids , so that much of it is recent . French towns , large or small , have a raffish , down - at - heel quality which shows up as a relaxed attitude to their urban fabric . Exterior plaster and paintwork , whether on public buildings or private housing , is allowed to flake and crumble . Not so in Aachen , or anywhere in the old Federal Republic where the townscapes are sprightly and well kept , the public parks devoid of litter and the shopping malls reek of prosperity .