Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: no)
They went into town in a borrowed carriage . The town was full of strangers , who stared at Tess , happy and beautiful on Angel 's arm . At the end of the day , Tess was waiting for Angel to bring the horse and carriage , when two men passed her in the street . ' She 's a lovely maiden , ' one said to his friend . ' She 's lovely , yes .
Idiom: behind closed doors (used idiomatically: yes)
I mean teaching is a demanding job , is n't it . Now how can you cope as teachers with a school in which you are almost on call to all the population twenty four hours of the day , which is , it seems to me , what you 're saying ? With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten / fifteen / twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . I think , too , if you know your students , if you meet them outside the classroom in activities , then it makes life in the classroom as well . There is a tremendous spin - off from one to the other .
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: yes)
X and Unix , but blends the two environments into a single user - friendly operating system . The product , now Americanised , but originally developed in Norway for government use , was launched last week at Comdex in Chicago , not from the exhibit floor but out of an invitation - only suite . The company , which claims to have the product up and running smoothly in Norway at the Ministry of Defence and in Sweden in the educational administration , is dreaming of becoming the industry 's new standard of connectivity . Winix described its breakthrough as making Unix services such as parallel processing , standardised e - mail and Unix news plus its own workgroup tools available simultaneously under the Windows interface . The software includes a terminal emulator that integrates Unix applications with Windows by supporting MS Windows Dynamic Data Exchange to transfer data from a Unix session directly to a running Windows application .
Idiom: free and easy (used idiomatically: yes)
Could you suggest me a good RSS feed that is free and easy ? Download the Feed Notifier ( http://www.feednotifier.com/ ) .
Idiom: buy the farm (used idiomatically: yes)
My father came from Yorkshire . His grandfather , my great - grandfather , had been a wealthy farmer . He had bought too many farms and had gone bankrupt in the agricultural depression at the beginning of this century . This left my father 's parents badly off , but they managed to send him to Oxford , where he studied medicine . He then went into research in tropical medicine .
Idiom: between the devil and the deep blue sea (used idiomatically: yes)
What would be a sensible forecast of revenue ? I particularly wanted to know Sir Alec 's views now that British Rail had submitted a scaled - down plan . Poor old British Rail were between the devil and the deep blue sea . The Labour Government had cancelled their previous and more ambitious scheme for the tunnel and now the next Conservative Government was wondering if their current one was ambitious enough . Nevertheless , the questions were fundamental .
Idiom: get off the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
Modelled on its Princeton namesake , it is funded mainly by the state of Berlin . It is rapidly becoming one of those elite research institutions some academics are looking for to improve the quality of research . It got off the ground in Berlin in 1982 despite an atmosphere of increasing pressure on funds for all forms of higher education in Berlin as elsewhere in West Germany . Berlin , however , is something of a special case in the West German higher education scene . To justify their hold on this island far into East Germany , the West Germans must keep up a good show of a thriving community in West Berlin .
Idiom: in black and white (used idiomatically: yes)
3 Does the picture tell the story without the need for a long caption ? The next step is to check the detail , and this will need a little more experience . If the shot is to be sent out in black and white the colour must be ignored and the shot viewed in terms of tones of grey . This means that the sharply contrasting colours green and black will look just the same in the black and white print . It also means that the choice of background colour is vital .
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
Morton stood in the entry , and peered up the street . It was all very well for Bragg to instruct him to go the rounds of prostitutes ' haunts , but he had precious little idea of how to go about it . As for the notion of canvassing his licentious friends , it was out of the question . For a start , he could think of precious few men who would consort with prostitutes . In the present relaxed moral climate , there was always a frisky society matron willing to accommodate a discreet young man .
Idiom: small potatoes (used idiomatically: yes)
No wonder he could take time off whenever he pleased . Roman Holidays was highly successful world - wide . Her business was very small potatoes beside his empire . ‘ Come on , I 'll drive you into Solihull,’ he said , all traces of amusement banished . ‘ Not looking like this you wo n't !
Idiom: man and boy (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ What 's he keep all that stuff for?’ ‘ In case it comes in handy , you know , like you save bits of string and wrapping paper.’ They had got in through a cellar window at the back and made their way up to a small office on the third landing where , according to Cyril , the sole employee had been there man and boy until he became fossilized and had to be removed feet first from his station . He had been dead a week before they realized he was n't breathing . We were just watching 4 What It 's Worth about all those people who go on holiday to the sunny Mediterranean , having booked a sea view , and come back with gastroenteritis from living over the dustbins and now want their money back , when Elinor came running up the garden path closely followed by Nigel .
Idiom: child's play (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Never at all , as Pat would say ! It 's just an idle metaphor . Of course there are little things to get clear , but they 're easy , they 're child 's play . For instance , you know I do n't have regular help , I 've usually cleaned the house myself , well now I 'm not going to clean upstairs except the drawing room , so you must do it yourself or else employ someone . Is n't that detailed enough and is n't it , when we come to it , as we have come to it , a small matter?’
Idiom: out of your mind (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ So you can . I 'll pick you up at five — that will give you time to arrange the holiday the delightful Myra thinks you should have.’ ‘ I ca n't take a holiday in June — you must be out of your mind ! It 's one of our busiest times , and there 's this NEC show in three weeks.’ ‘ Your Myra sounds very capable ; she said you were ahead with your designing and you have a good stock .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
Christina dancing . Running , laughing , her arms reaching for him . He opened his eyes . He tried not to look at the screens . He felt bile rising in his stomach as his gaze was dragged to the sluggish sea of grey and brown .
Idiom: say uncle (used idiomatically: no)
The country is crying out for leadership and all Mr Smith has to offer is a talking-shop for academics and political has-beens . Generation gap THE Prince of Wales says he really valued his chats with the Queen Mother and his late uncle , Lord Mountbatten . How comforting it is to know that Charles can communicate so well with people who are 40 or 50 years older than himself . Mind you , it would be more comforting if he could do the same with those who are a dozen years younger than he is .
Idiom: fun and games (used idiomatically: yes)
And er ? Well I was n't that nervous , but er I had a go and after an hour or so I got quite confident on me own then . Fun and games till the afternoon when we started to blow the furnaces and that was the happy time . Tap , tap , tap , sparks flying everywhere and we were just above it with the cranes , waiting to fill the big ladles . So we 'd fill them and we could n't see anyway , lookin We could n't look down and see , we had to wait for the foreman shouting all the instructions , move left , forward or up or down .
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: yes)
" Aye , that 's what he said . He 'd seen 'em like that afore and a good gallop put 'em right . So we got Rose out here and did as he said and by gaw it did the trick . She looked better right away . " I drew myself up .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
At this stage we are only roughing - out our interview schedule , but the more attention we can give to detail now the more we are likely to be saving ourselves trouble later on . Decisions to postpone the actual wording or analysis categories can often be rationalized as being safeguards against too rigid a mental outlook on what may be a very exploratory field of research . But there are numerous instances which come to my mind of research in which all the problems of analysis were left until the survey had been done and then anything up to , or even over , a year was needed to sort out the tangled mass of answers to vague questions . Much of this sort of work is unnecessary if forethought is used at the planning stage . When a draft schedule has been produced the next stage is what I have referred to previously as ' internal testing ' .
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: no)
Third , Russia has been stirring up trouble in South Ossetia and Abkhazia for years . Moscow wants to keep Georgia weak . It plays the same game in Transdniestria to undermine Moldova . If an outsider had tried similar tactics in Chechnya , the Russians would rightly have howled with rage . Fourth , today 's Russian leaders , like nineteenth - century Czars , want a sphere of influence around their borders .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
So you know it , it , it 's just , they will actually , the interesting bit is that they 'll only move back to that equilibrium point as you fall down towards them . So in order to sort of effect effective change , you really need to do it very slowly and incrementally . So with the particular diary system , I mean this , what I 've just said is about the whole course , but the particular diary , I would say get to grips with the diary first , and then you know , once you 're , you 're on , on , on tap with that , then get involved with the erm , project sheets and the project management forms . Erm , but start with the diary , because that 's where most of the benefit is coming from . Any questions at all ?
Idiom: out of order (used idiomatically: yes)
Work or we 'll give you more Cherub singing . Ah ! I think you 're being a bit out of order there old boy . It 's true though innit ? Yeah .
Idiom: basket case (used idiomatically: yes)
We were about half - way through the second audition when the door opened and Karen Parsons walked in . I was n't best pleased to see her . It was bad enough to have to spend my days acting as occupational therapist to a bunch of linguistic basket - cases without having my social acquaintances dropping in to witness my degradation . Moreover one of Clive 's many draconian rules was an absolute ban on personal visitors during school hours . There was even a story , not necessarily apocryphal , that when a message arrived to tell one of the teachers that his father had died , Clive had insisted on waiting until the lunch break before passing it on .
Idiom: have the last laugh (used idiomatically: yes)
Banished to the uncool shelves marked ‘ fantasy’ and ‘ horror’and even serialised in comic book form , she is beyond the pale of most critics . This really pisses her off : ‘ There is this bias that if it is about vampires it has to be junk — well it is absolutely not true.’ Rice is , however , having the last laugh . Suddenly , after a century of realism and what Rice calls ‘ little Protestant novels’ , the tide is turning back towards the fantastical , towards ‘ magic , the extreme and the eccentric’ . And with at least six vampire movies ( including Coppola 's Dracula and the Luke Perry starrer Buffy The Vampire Slayer ) and numerous bloodsucking books coming out between now and Christmas , Rice is particularly well - placed to take advantage of the coming vampire boom .
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: yes)
I should have seized the opportunity and said to Una Stubbs , ‘ Here 's your next title , A Farewell to Arms .’ The first five series featured Ken Jones , a band leader who also composed the show 's theme music . He played the guests on and off and also accompanied the people who sang — Paul McCartney , Liza Minnelli and Tom Jones , and a few more unlikely names , too , such as Lenny Henry , George Segal on the banjo , and Patrick Moore on the xylophone . He coped with whatever was thrown at him . For instance , when Oliver Reed made his now famous appearance with slightly more than a little Dutch courage inside him , he suddenly took it into his head that he wanted to sing .
Idiom: wide of the mark (used idiomatically: yes)
the sea scrawls W 's with childish hand , and — the master of disguise — cultivates its farming land . The waves are miles wide of the mark : they sweep up tidily to pass the time till Sunny Jim — a brighter spark — investigates the crime .
Idiom: hands down (used idiomatically: yes)
The KGB 's next victim wo n't be left dead with a poisoned pellet in him , like a wood pigeon that a kid takes a pot shot at with his air gun . There 'll hardly be a mark.’ She smacked her hand down on to the saucer without realising she still held the cup . The crack of china resounded round the cafe as the saucer split in half . A lady with a drained face wrapped in a nylon scarf and sitting at a table near by glanced up with a scowl .
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Thou shalt conform’ , is the new commandment of the national organizations which dominate high streets all over Britain . Diversity , individuality and regional character are out . Standardized fascias and fronts , company colours , house lettering and stylized logos are in with a vengeance . This coarseness of imagery — particularly crude colours and alien materials — is visually impoverishing our towns at appalling speed . Everywhere , high streets are looking more and more alike .
Idiom: cut corners (used idiomatically: yes)
Women who are employed by contractors have often faced worse conditions and even lower pay . Many of them are part - time workers and many have had their already small number of hours reduced further . Private contractors we all know cut corners , services decline and women , customers and users of the service suffer . Most elderly people in this country are women . Many rely on council day centres , home helps and Meals On Wheels .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: yes)
Now that observations are beginning to support theories about the relationship between virulence and transmissibility in the evolution of pathogenicity , the way is open for further theoretical developments . Many of the same theoretical issues arise in the study of the evolution of sex ration on group - structured populations , a topic which has spawned some of the most impressive fits between quantitative predictions of evolutionary theory and field data . It is no accident that the curious natural history of fig wasps played an important part in that work as well . A twist in the tail —Parasitodiplogaster obtunema , one of the direct life - cycle nematodes , parasitic on fig wasps , central to the work described here . ( Photo , )
Idiom: play hard to get (used idiomatically: yes)
" What 's the matter ? " Matthew asked softly . " Are you playing hard to get ? " " I 'm not playing anything ! " " Or still keeping our relationship to a " strictly neutral business acquaintance " ?
Idiom: six of the best (used idiomatically: no)
Anyone know who the other sub was on Saturday ( apart from Whelan ) ? By the way , I 've just been glancing through my fixture list , and it seems to me that the real test of our recent good form will come in December / early January . We have six really tough games in a row — Norwich , Arsenal , Newcastle , QPR , Scum & Villa — probably six of the best teams around on current form . Makes it even more vital that we start beating teams like Spurs / Everton etc . Andy .
Idiom: steal the show (used idiomatically: yes)
Although Scotland 's trades union movement opposed the game , it went ahead regardless , and the players stripped in changing rooms with bullet holes along the wall . Scotland stuffed Chile and salvaged a victory out of the mouth of repression . It was in the following game against Argentina in Buenos Aires that Willie Johnson stole the show . In a display of breathtaking arrogance he virtually destroyed the career of the Argentinian defender Vincente Pernia , who he tormented with twisting runs and terrific ball skills . In a moment of desperation , the defeated Pernia , struck out at Johnson , the inevitable fight ensued and the two were sent off .
Idiom: for good measure (used idiomatically: yes)
As the afternoon wears on , Paul Merton gets into the swing of things . Buster Keaton would never have worn a straw hat , he stresses , and London is scoured for a felt one . He offers everyone a serious comparison of Keaton and Charlie Chaplin ( with Harold Lloyd and Fatty Arbuckle trivia thrown in for good measure ) , revealing that Keaton was , for him , the true genius on account of his invention and comic daring . He then recounts a dozen brilliant Buster Keaton scenes . ‘ Keaton did all his own sketches , you know .
Idiom: give and take (used idiomatically: no)
It 's made me question what chance I 've got . ‘ The only way to get to the bottom of it is to confront the chairman . ’ Crosby took Sunderland to the FA Cup final last May and was given a one-year contract . after leading FA cup finalists Sunderland to Wembley in May . But he appears to have been on borrowed time ever since .
Idiom: for good measure (used idiomatically: yes)
By Larry Elliott Economics Correspondent THE chances of British entry into the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System before the next election were significantly reduced at the Strasbourg summit , as the Prime Minister maintained her hard - line opposition . Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . But she doubted whether it would work as well once the system , dominated by West Germany , was diluted by other countries less committed to the policy of bearing down on prices .
Idiom: have a few (used idiomatically: yes)
And the poor owd boy put his hat back on sheepish like and watched the fly zooming about the smithy , giving us a look as the same time . We often used to laugh about the owd boy and the fly.’ Some of the boys who had just left school used to be mischieful when they brought the farm - horses in , but the smith had a few tricks to put them in their place . ‘ One of the things he did was this : On the quiet he 'd heat up the ends of two thin iron rods . Then he 'd ask one of the boys : ‘ Can you play the kittle - drum on the anvil like this ?
Idiom: kick up a fuss (used idiomatically: yes)
My father was born in Russia and his father was a colonel in the Tsarist army . He was sent over to make an arms deal with the British government and being a military man he was extremely loyal and a little blinkered . He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . So he brought his family over because negotiations were taking so long , and he basically got cut off . So he went from being an immensely rich aristocrat in Russia to being a taxi driver — all in about four years .
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
And I have not , and I would n't want to unless she was in such a condition , can you manage to sit there like that for a moment while I 'll manage to go and get a pad ? You okay at the moment ? So then I 'll need to go and get my pads and my bandages so that I can put this right , you 'll need two of these for this bandage , the first one , you open out so that the pad is going to go into the palm of her hand and that over the top and she is going to grab hold of the other one like that , okay , now we 've got the wad in there and she 's hanging on to it , but it was the sterile part of the bandage as I undid it that went on to the wound , there is no time for dressing here is there ? No , okay so now we 're going to actually put this bandage , sorry have I got that round the right way ? No think it goes round the bottom
Idiom: take a back seat (used idiomatically: yes)
CAPRICORN Dec 22–Jan 19 Love You are particularly open to the troublesome influences of Mars this week , which could cause confrontations between yourself and those closest . If you ca n't agree to disagree , then take a back seat and let others have their way on this occasion . Money Your finances are looking healthy and you feel confident that you 're in command of your cash . Health If you control the amount of stress in your life , good health will continue .
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: yes)
But last month when the Ulster champions qualified for only their second All Ireland decider the 24-year - old barrister stole the show . There was no comparison with the player who had struggled valiantly but with little success against Tyrone in both last season 's league and championship . Against Dublin Brolly was a revelation and though he had his critics in the past the Dungiven man came of age in Croke Park with one of the great individual performances . Moran , O'Neill and Mick Deegan all attempted to curb the in - form Brolly with no success , and his blistering pace will give Cork manager Billy Morgan something to ponder over in the week ahead . Traumatic
Idiom: on someone's mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Lucenzo grunted . ‘ You 're obsessed by money , are n't you?’ ‘ It 's constantly on my mind,’ she agreed solemnly , thinking how hard she had to budget . ‘ I must warn my wealthy clients,’ he said cynically . She chuckled ruefully .
Idiom: behind bars (used idiomatically: yes)
Defending champion Patrick Wallace came from behind to beat Mark Howe , but Kieran Erwin , twice holder of the title , went out in five frames to Harry Morgan . Wedding is seen as final ‘ betrayal ' A STARK , uncertain future awaits the convicted paramilitary enemies who became lovers by letter behind bars . The families of republican murderer Anna Moore and loyalist killer Bobby Corry are believed to be bitterly divided over their controversial decision to we d . The unlikely couple will probably have to leave Northern Ireland when freed — possibly in ten years — as it is doubtful former associates in the INLA and UDA will forgive , or forget , such an act of ‘ betrayal’ .