Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: all and sundry (used idiomatically: yes)
Apart from preserving the body for the sake of the Day of Judgement , two more important facts have to be taken into consideration , delayed burials and monarchial deaths . When a person of rank died far from home , and it was known that the funeral would therefore be delayed , embalming allowed the body to remain recognizable long enough for the relatives to make a positive identification on its arrival home . Embalming a monarch allowed for public examination of the corpse , not only to prove to all and sundry that the monarch was indeed dead but also to let the rightful heir be acclaimed and to deter any pretenders . The information we have on early techniques comes from contemporary and later chronicles and , during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , from antiquarian curiosity in the examination of coffin contents during cathedral and church restorations . The technique during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had four stages .
Idiom: heart and soul (used idiomatically: no)
You made me stay with you while they were away and you should n't have . You had no right , no right at all . I gave you everything too , my heart and my soul and you … you just used me ! ' Suddenly she was free . His grip slackened and she took the opportunity to tear away from him .
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: yes)
Table 4.1 Age structure , UK , 1971–88 These changes have had massive implications for the provision of age - specific services such as maternity facilities , school places , youth training , elderly health care and sheltered housing . Particular problems arose as the baby boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s ‘ came of age’ , with pressures on higher education , the job market and the housing stock . For instance , the number of working - age people ( 16-pensionable age ) grew by 1.2 million between 1971 and 1981 and by a further 1.3 million in the seven years up to 1988 , while the age groups spanning the period of most intense new household formation ( 15–44 years old ) contained 3.6 million more people in 1988 than at the beginning of the 1970s . Household size and structure
Idiom: turn a blind eye (used idiomatically: yes)
Some doctors may even hasten death with the pain-killing drugs they administer at this time , but their ‘ intent to kill ’ or otherwise , is rarely tested in a court . Holland 's liberal attitude is held as a model by many pro-euthanasia campaigners . Though mercy killing is still officially illegal , the law turns a blind eye to the 2.4 per cent of Dutch deaths which are accounted for by it . In Britain , however , patients on life-support machines or in a ‘ permanent vegetative state ’ can not ask for the machine to be switched off . Doctors are obliged by law to keep them alive while there is a chance of recovery .
Idiom: bob's your uncle (used idiomatically: yes)
LOOK WHAT YOU GET Star studded cabaret … funfairs … sport … films … keep-fit … sub-tropical fun pools FUNCOAST WORLD BOB 'S your hilarious uncle at Funcoast World , where Bob Monkhouse , TV 's favourite comedian , will top the bill for the weekend break from Friday , October 16 , to Monday , October 19 . The entertainment continues in a sparkling mid-week special between Monday , October 19 , and Saturday , October 24 . During that you can enjoy a fabulous line-up , including Billy Pearce , The Dreamers and Derek Batey .
Idiom: to say the least (used idiomatically: yes)
If people are born heterosexual or homosexual then the concept of ‘ promotion’ is irrelevant . If , however , human beings are born with the capacity to be sexual — with a sexuality — but the manner in which that sexuality is expressed is socially constructed , then ‘ promotion’ is possible . Moreover , if within society one sexuality ( i.e. heterosexuality ) is presented , even promoted , as the single , normal , best sexuality , then the positive representation of another sexuality ( i.e. homosexuality ) as equally valid is problematic , to say the least . But does positive representation equal promotion ? Can a positive image of lesbianism promote it ?
Idiom: moment of truth (used idiomatically: yes)
In his long , pale lantern face his eyes burned darkly , like half - consumed embers . For all his eagerness , when he came to the testing time he hesitated to touch , and two or three times poised his hands over the book , only to withdraw them again from contact . An interesting study , this , of the varying techniques with which different men approached the moment of truth . Robert Bossu had stood the book briskly on edge between his flattened palms , parted the leaves with both thumbs , opened them fully , and poised a finger wherever chance guided it . Herluin , when finally he did touch , touched as if the vellum might burn him , timidly and convulsively , and even when he had the book open , for better or worse , agonized a few moments over where to choose on the page , shifting from recto to verso and back again before settling .
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ It makes marks.’ He longed to discuss Meredith further , his background , his opinions — on the surface he sounded a sensible enough sort of fellow but he did n't know how to go about it . One ill - considered word and Stella would be up and running . ‘ You know Miss Allenby,’ she said . ‘ The one in the gauzes in the fourth act.’
Idiom: get off the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
on that one . Erm for me I would feel that the police having a r a low profile , erm is more beneficial er and I think perhaps maybe , erm the community policemen type of thing , could have been helpful . Erm but I you know I do n't know that that was a got off the ground very well . Mhm . Er but I think you know , you 've got sort of police walking around all the time , erm it can aggravate things rather than calm them .
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: yes)
God , he 's nice , and he really works at his polo , every evening , lining up ball after ball , and practising penalties . ‘ He 's a brilliant teacher too . Alejandro gets pissed off and shouts if you do n't do the right thing straight away . Luke tells you what to do all the time , but quietly , and he never loses his temper , except if he thinks you 're not toying . ‘ Please , please write .
Idiom: sleep like a log (used idiomatically: yes)
He seemed to be awake for a long time , I think , you know like you wake up and you do n't know what to do with yourself , I think it was like that , so every quarter of an hour or so he kept me , shouting for a drink he did n't know quite what to do with himself Yeah . Your mother used to sleep like a log and she still that
Idiom: get away with murder (used idiomatically: yes)
TV writer Johnny Speight , creator of Alf Garnett , is selling his Rolls - Royce with its number plate MOO 16 . Sleeping killer is cleared KILLERS can get away with murder if they convince courts they were sleepwalking , a judge in Canada ruled yesterday . The decision followed the freeing of a man who killed his mother - in - law . Kenneth Parks said he was sleeping the night he drove 14 miles to her home , let himself in , and beat her to death .
Idiom: take a dim view of (used idiomatically: yes)
After the usual formalities , and the realisation that ' You 're British are n't you ? ' the officer 's colleague was called up to see AutoRoute do its mapping marvels . Seeing so much technology in use , the car was ' looked over ' to see if we had a radar detector — we did n't . These are quite legal to buy in the States , but the Highway Patrol takes a particularly dim view of their use . You have been warned ! Overall the GRiD 386NX was a rugged performer , it was noticeably faster than many desktop systems , and never missed a beat in over 12,000 miles of air travel via six airports , and 1,500 miles of travel up and down America 's rugged Pacific Coastline .
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: yes)
( Think of all the unpleasant questions your classmates might ask you and make sure you can answer them ! ) Definitions are sometimes hard to grasp on first reading . One method I 've found helpful is to learn the definition by heart . Once you have control over the words you can concentrate all your efforts on their meaning . Perhaps the best approach to reading a proof for the first time is positively to disbelieve each assertion made .
Idiom: face to face (used idiomatically: yes)
The well - known argument is that the woman 's refusal to concede to sexual intercourse is totally unjustified , since the two bodies have in fact already been made one by a flea , who has been sucking blood from them both . The first and second person pronouns " me " and " thou " / " thee " and the opening imperative " Marke " establish a situation of direct address involving a speaking persona and a ( silent ) addressee . The time deictic " now " explicitly signals the synchronicity of content and coding time pointed out by Green in Section 6 , while the use of the demonstrative of spatial proximity"this ' in reference to the flea implies the existence of a shared situational context , in which a spoken , face - to - face interaction is taking place . The communicative context evoked by the text , in other words , corresponds to the canonical situation of utterance , within which the two participants , a mutually visible object and the time of utterance are referred to deictically . The fact that a spoken context of utterance is constructed from a written text emphasises the separation between the real and the fictional enunciations : the referents of the personal pronouns in the text are likely to be perceived as fictive personae , while author and reader are not directly present or involved in the constructed text world .
Idiom: rough and ready (used idiomatically: yes)
Khrushchev asked truculently why he should care what happened to the enemies of the working class . George Brown shouted , ‘ God forgive you’ , Aneurin Bevan shook his finger at the guest with the warning ‘ Do n't try to bully me!’ and Khrushchev roared above the din : ‘ I have n't met people like you for thirty or forty years!’ Unused to the rough and ready answering - back of British socialism , he remarked next day that if he lived in Britain he would be a Tory . There might be any roads to socialism but the Labour Party was not one of them . After the contents of the twentieth Party Congress speech sank in , there was a general revolt , logically enough , among the East European satellite regimes which Stalin had held in contemptuous subjugation .
Idiom: sleight of hand (used idiomatically: yes)
( Critics of the Keynesian approach often pointed an accusatory finger at this assumption , claiming that it removed wage theory from the hands of economists and handed it over to sociologists . Given the thinly disguised mutual suspicion which traditionally exists between economists and sociologists , it is scarcely surprising that most mainstream economists were deeply unhappy at what they regarded as an unjustified yielding of territory to an altogether less rigorous discipline . ) From being underdetermined , the Keynesian model was made fully determinate by means of what many non - Keynesians regarded as a rather devious sleight of hand . In general Keynesians recognized that changes in W could occur from time to time , but the factors influencing these changes were extrinsic to the equations of the income - expenditure model . In other words , the determination of the general level of money wages , and hence the absolute price level , was left dangling in the air , unexplained by the model .
Idiom: lie low (used idiomatically: no)
Now John Burnett found his good - natured and impressionable son falling under the spell of two far more intelligent men of dubious opinions , and caught up in a wild scheme for emigration to America . Certainly , George Burnett , weak - willed and indolent , was to suffer the most from the rash ideas and too easy friendships which that summer produced . Before he died in 1811 , an opium - addicted pauper in Marylebone Workhouse , he may have reflected that it would have been better had he never left the low - lying fields of Huntspill . Burnett was not the only friend Southey and Coleridge hoped to visit in the course of the Somerset expedition . A few miles from Huntspill , in the hamlet of Shurton , lived Henry Poole , a fellow student of Coleridge 's at Jesus College , and one member of a large and talented family whose various branches were scattered through a number of local villages .
Idiom: in the nick of time (used idiomatically: yes)
The Foreign Secretary is urging local firms to step up their efforts to sell their products abroad . He 's been telling businessmen and women that Britain 's prosperity depends on their export success . It 's a message that one entrepreneur in the region has already taken up … in the nick of time . Kim Barnes reports . KINGHAM / Oxfordshire
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
' I 've sub - let , ' said Joe . ' Well , she 's got a damaged ankle , no home and no family . I found her in the fog . Did n't want her to chuck herself off a bridge , so I 've let her have one of my rooms . ' ' Sounds as if she needs an ' elping hand , ' said Annie .
Idiom: on the mend (used idiomatically: yes)
Outgoing President Hu ~ Jintao indicated that China ’s total GDP and per capita income should double by 2020 , which will require 7.5 % average annual growth . Is this feasible ? Recent improvements in data for industrial production , fixed investment , and retail sales suggest that the Chinese economy , which had slowed in recent quarters , may already be on the mend . But the authorities remain cautious , given that China ’s economic outlook depends heavily on external conditions , which is the source of most current uncertainty . However , as things stand , most independent economists expect 7 - 7 .
Idiom: at the drop of a hat (used idiomatically: yes)
They deny serious professional misconduct . Mr Bewick was criticised strongly yesterday by Mr Sells for carrying out too many operations rather than reflecting on the ethics involved . Mr Rodger Bell QC , for Mr Bewick , suggested that his client had a ' bee in his bonnet ' about surgeons being able to work anywhere at a drop of a hat . Mr Sells said he had corresponded with Mr Bewick and asked why he had not joined the BTS and become involved in debates on transplants . In May 1985 Mr Bewick had been duped into believing a kidney given by a living Indian donor was from a relative , Mr Sells said .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
And , again like the students , it has issued an official list of permitted slogans , ordering citizens to memorise 40 different chants to mark the 40th anniversary of communist rule . Not as stirring as the protest movement 's shouts of ‘ long live democracy , down with autocracy ’ , they include cumbersome chants hailing ‘ the great achievement of socialism ’ and ‘ warmly hail the victory over the turmoil and counter-revolutionary rebellion ’ . Nowhere has the leadership struggled to exorcise the memory of the student- led revolt as in Tiananmen itself , the symbolic heart of the nation where , on 1 October 1949 , Mao Tse-tung proclaimed the People 's Republic of China . The students who occupied the square for three weeks in May and early June have been banished . So , too , has anyone without the special pass needed to get through military cordons .
Idiom: point the finger (used idiomatically: yes)
They pay a middle - man thousands of dollars to be there . And when they arrive , they find themselves in labor camps with no water , no air ~ conditioning , and their passports taken away . While it 's easy to point the finger at local officials and higher authorities , 99 percent of these people are hired by the private sector , and so therefore we 're equally , if not more , accountable . Groups like Buildsafe UAE have emerged , but the numbers are simply overwhelming . In August 2008 , UAE public officials noted that 40 percent of the country 's 1,098 labor camps had violated minimum health and fire safety regulations .
Idiom: over your head (used idiomatically: no)
Ca n't you watch what you 're doing ? Look , there 's a splash of sauce on my sleeve.’ Be thankful I did n't tip it over your head ! Robyn muttered silently . She grabbed a serviette and aloud said sweetly , ‘ Here , let me scrub at it for you .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
For example , onions , bananas , trout and cauliflower can all be cooked in the same chamber without taste transfer . Hot air This mode replaces frying or roasting in a hot air unit , a tilt pan or a frying pan , and replaces baking in a normal or multi - tiered oven . Hot air is circulated at a high velocity in the cooking cabinet where it instantly envelopes the food and seals the meat so that it remains juicy . It is important that your combi - steamer can achieve as near 300&degree : C as possible .
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: no)
Yeah you had kitchen curtains that 's right and all the red went into little holes . All the red went in holes . Oh that , that 's strange . Our dining room chairs were covered in Rexine too .
Idiom: game on (used idiomatically: yes)
In defence of the defence , Wilko has made changes , but they were both injured last night . Lukic looked a lot better by the end of the night , plucking out a few high balls as happily as Seaman had been doing for Arse all night . I 'm afraid I ca n't see much changing for the red scouse game on saturday , though . Other points coming up in a sec . Gav
Idiom: no can do (used idiomatically: yes)
Sara shook her head . She pulled a face . ‘ Just no can do.’ ‘ Sara , we are a group of middle - aged , well , nearly middle - aged , housewives , who amuse ourselves while the men are toiling , with a little bit of painting , sketching . There 's no one in our cosy little set - up who has a quarter of the talent you have .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
The overall goal of ' increasing social contacts ' , just like ' having more money ' , can be broken down into specific objectives and activities . Homework tasks may centre around the client achieving specific behavioural tasks . Examples of these tasks include , ' chatting for two minutes to the man in the corner shop ' , ' inviting the neighbour around for a drink ' , ' enrolling in an evening class ' , ' joining a club or society ' , ' telephoning an old friend ' , etc . These homework tasks are negotiated between therapist and client . It is important not to take on over - ambitious tasks or the client will feel demoralized .
Idiom: follow suit (used idiomatically: yes)
The wooden trellised gate blocked the way , the outside public highway was detached from the ancient bridle path , now a forestry way and kept for private use . They stopped and surveyed the scene ; the other dropped the umbrella , offered a hand , and he , clasping the camera firmly in one hand , drew himself up , balanced , then reached over to the other side . He offered the umbrella to him and then followed suit , both were presently arranged , expectant and a little flushed , now standing on the far side . The path stretched from their current position , winding a little through the uneven clump of trees , to make its way as far as a bridge , before it dissolved into the distant shred of mist . They gathered themselves and began to walk , their steps light though at first a little unsure , until they became more used to the uneven pace .
Idiom: off the mark (used idiomatically: yes)
LLOYD BANKS RUNS GRAHAM LLOYD strengthened his claim for a place on the England ‘ A’ tour to Australia with his fourth championship century of the season at Old Trafford yesterday . Lloyd took half - an - hour to get off the mark but finished with 101 as Lancashire piled up 321 for five against Worcestershire . The 23-year - old batted for 196 minutes , hitting 15 fours and a straight six off Graeme Hick . Lloyd shared a second - wicket stand of 135 with Nick Speak , who continued his superb season with 71 to take his championship tally to 1,739 runs .
Idiom: mean business (used idiomatically: yes)
And in the same way , interpretation of the word respect , was that you paid attention to the local bobby Mm . because you knew he meant business , and he would achieve his end And living in the area with him . Yes , but there 's
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: yes)
Ltd. who towed her into Leith for dry docking and repairs . She was then removed to the Metal Industries Yard at Rosyth where she was refitted with materials taken from the battleship ' King George V ' which was in the process of being broken up . The ship ended her seagoing life when she was berthed in the West Old Dock , Leith , in 1928 where she remained until moved to the Newcastle Quay in 1969 . The idea of making her into a museum was abandoned and instead she was turned into a Boys ' Club . During the Second World War the ship was used as a barracks .
Idiom: beg the question (used idiomatically: yes)
I really hope there 's nothing in the story , and I 'd be surprised if there was . You 're right , Dorigo is definitely one of our most consistent defenders , and it 's not as though we 've been blessed with an abundance of them in recent years ! If there IS something to the story , it begs 2 questions : — 1 ) If Wilko 's so keen to have Shez in the team that he 's willing to lose one of our best defenders , then why did he sell the man in the first place ?
Idiom: know no bounds (used idiomatically: yes)
He became a party to household secrets and to Wagner 's cherished artistic plans . He was shown unpublished essays and given his own room to work in . Not surprisingly , his enthusiasm knew no bounds . In August 1869 he wrote to his mother : " I have never felt happier than during the last few days . The warm , hearty and increasing closeness with Wagner and Frau von Bulow , the complete agreement between us on all the questions that chiefly interest us , Wagner absolutely in the prince of genius …
Idiom: over the moon (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ You always read about others getting these awards , but I never thought it would happen to me.’ Living in such a rural community ensured that no one escaped the news . ‘ It 's been great because every one has shared in the pleasure of it’ , she added , ‘ All my friends and colleagues have been so enthusiastic and my family are over the moon.’ Wonderful times Myrtle joined AEA in 1961 as an assistant scientific officer and stayed with the Metallurgy Division until March this year .
Idiom: give and take (used idiomatically: no)
We see the resurgence in the new nonconformism of the house churches and sometimes in the charismatic movement . It often appears in General Synod with some unspoken assumptions about the text of the Bible . For example , without wishing to go into the debate about the Bishop of Durham s well-known views — and I want to say here that on the resurrection and virgin birth I take the traditional teaching of the Church — I am concerned when speakers are ignorant of some of the critical insights which have given rise to the Bishop 's well thought-out views . David Jenkins , on both issues , is giving expression to conclusions widely held by some contemporary New Testament scholars . By simply shouting him down , the issues will not go away ; they have to be faced maturely and rationally , within the context , of course , of faith .