Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: no)
That someone else believes something , expects something , and so on , is something I find out about by observation . That I believe something , expect something , or whatever , is not something I find out about by observation . Properly to understand this , one needs to spell out the counter - argument , even to the point of saying what ordinarily goes without saying . ( i ) With some obvious exceptions , such as questions and commands , all linguistic utterances purport to be statements of fact . They purport to describe what is the case , to report some state of affairs or other .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
When I think of him sighing in the lane on the other side of the Park he seems far too close to home , far too much a part of all the difficult things in life . I do n't want the mess spreading back into my working world . Then tomorrow evening I 'll get home in time to see my son awake , in time to cook a meal , in time to get to grips with things . 4 There are fourteen references to defence in the index of the old Government Commission files in Registry , and I have now wasted the first hour and a half of my working day checking through them all .
Idiom: on the mend (used idiomatically: yes)
You watch it , my girl . I hear he 's got quite a reputation . And he was very keen on Sara Calvert while he was on the mend . Are you sure he 's not two - timing you?’ ‘ I 'm sure he is n't .
Idiom: catch a cold (used idiomatically: yes)
Doc was John Smith ( for doctoring the figures ) , Bashful was Gerald Kaufman , Sleepy was Roy Hattersley and Grumpy was John Prescott . Happy was hard to find but was generously cast as Bryan Gould . Sneezy was Robin Cook ( ‘ he 's going to catch a cold when he finds you can not solve all problems by throwing money at them’ ) and Dopey , You Know Who . The card - carrying celebrities loved it . They were no less enthused when Mr Rice put up some film of seriously ordinary people , the sort of folk the average celebrity sees across a crash barrier .
Idiom: game on (used idiomatically: yes)
Karen Rake from the Maxwell club at Aylesbury will be chasing records in the pool at Sheffield this weekend as she competes in the British Championships … Karen is one of the best young prospects we 've got … and will be going for gold in the breast stroke … Survival will be the name of the game on Sunday … when the country 's top triathletes arrive in Aylesbury to compete in the British Sprint Championships … A sprint to them is a 750 metre open air swim … a twenty kilometre bike ride … and a five kilometre run … There 's scores of Central South folk heading for Wales this weekend to ride and run in one of the great adventure races … its the annual Horse v Man V Mountain Bike challenge … local people have won the race for the last five years … and you can if the winning run or ride continues when we bring you the highlights on Monday …
Idiom: set eyes on (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Did n't I tell you you 'd fall in love with her at first sight?’ ‘ And you were right,’ drawled Damian with a sardonic glance at Rachel . ‘ I wanted her the minute I set eyes on her.’ Her eyes flared angrily . She knew his true meaning only too well .
Idiom: walk of life (used idiomatically: yes)
yes , that 's right . Where if you 're fairly new , you do n't know them people , you might be thinking you have to have a timed appointment to go in with , where you 'll save a lot of time by just building up , and working on your existing like that . That 's a case of , it happens in all walks of life , is n't it ? The guy who 's been in the business or been in the same patch or whatever it is for a long time , That 's where you begin
Idiom: off the shelf (used idiomatically: no)
Dowty 's already shed fifteen hundred jobs . The new order should mean a more secure future for the remaining staff . A mother has called for a brand of bubble gum to be taken off the shelves after her eight - year - old son nearly choked on one of the sweets . Trading standards officers are warning other parents of the possible dangers . IAN MacLAREN / Oxford
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
Again I wondered what I was doing here . This was n't the Dorchester or the Ritz , but it had their ineffable air of serene affluence . These people , I remarked , could pull out of their pockets , thoughtlessly , as much money for a round of drinks as most single parents have to live on for a week ; could pay as much for a few hours ' sleep as a Third World peasant and his family have to live , or die , on for a year . Masha nodded , saying that for the first time since Geneva she could feel the attraction of Communism . Apart from one lone Nigerian sipping tea , we saw no one else from the festival .
Idiom: to all intents and purposes (used idiomatically: yes)
We have raised donation money from members and hope to use these funds to provide legal assistance to prisoners and to provide basic amenities in an effort to alleviate very severe living conditions . We understand that we do not satisfy stringent criteria laid down by the Charity Commission for formal registration , and in the event we would prefer to avoid the substantial cost of registration and the administrative burden that would accompany it . However , to all intents and purposes , the organisation is most definitely a charity . Is there any obligation for an external audit to be carried out on the books and records of the organisation , or is this a matter to be decided according to an internally agreed constitution ? Were the organisation to make a profit for any particular period of accounts , would it be liable to pay income tax , or would this be a matter for negotiation with the Inland Revenue ?
Idiom: one of those things (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's like that with a school . We 've got a fine little school here , I 'm sure you 'd agree —’ Hilary Frome looked at him with a light of pure idealism in his eyes , but he drew the line at assenting —‘but what 's going to count in the years ahead is what we 've got up top . And one of those things is you , Frome.’ Hilary swallowed , apparently with emotion . ‘ I 'm sure I 'll try to pull my weight , sir,’ he said , his damask cheek giving no sign of the tongue inside it .
Idiom: rock bottom (used idiomatically: yes)
Just to make some general points . Yes , I mean it 's quite clear grass cutting is one of those issues which has been very vexatious over the years and I 'm sure it will continue to be so . It will , because er in part , under compulsory competitive tendering , the pricing is driven down to rock bottom and below . We pay something like one penny per square metre to cut grass and , as someone has already said , to an extent you get what you pay for . The cost of a if w if the specification included collecting the grass , you multiply the cost by a factor of seven .
Idiom: toe the line (used idiomatically: yes)
Unless one supposes there to be two categorially different kinds of appearances presented to the mind it will then seem that this flat circle must be the only object of visual perception , and the round globe I seem to see , the epistemic appearance , must really be a judgement I mistake for a sensation . I am so used to leaping from the sensation , the flat circle , to the judgement , a globe , and do it so quickly , that I do not notice I have done it . Before going on to the second reason for Locke 's not acknowledging the existence of epistemic appearances I must correct a false impression I may have given , that all the seventeenth - century philosophers who succeeded Descartes toed the Cartesian line about the mind perceiving things by being causally affected by them . One of the interesting exceptions was Antoine Arnauld . His principal work in philosophy is a detailed refutation of Nicolas Malebranche 's Cartesian theory of perception and of his non - Cartesian , Augustinian , doctrine of ' vision in God ' , the doctrine from which George Berkeley sought to dissociate himself .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
I get the impression that Mr Ataie has decided what he wants to say and then created characters to fit his theme . Thus Sya , who announces that ' one who believes in war believes in God ' and who beats his sister with a khaki belt , is an inflexible symbol of a militaristic ethos . Equally , Penny remains on one level as a deluded fantasist who believes , very like an Iranian woman , that a wife 's duty is to wait for her husband 's return from the wars . The only character who shows any internal conflict or dramatic progress is Sohy who gets a glimpse of Westernised freedom ( symbolised by the abandonment of her veil ) but who can not easily shake off a lifetime of enslavement . Not only are the characters walking symbols but Mr Ataie uses poetic metaphor ( the text is filled with references to stallions and horses ) as a means of camouflaging daily reality .
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: yes)
The channels are series - connected , and thus ‘ blendable’ . Variable compression is offered to help control the sound at any given level , and this is augmented by a selectable ten - band graphic equaliser which governs a frequency range of 30Hz to 8KHz . Two further tone controls offer high and low pass boost / cut ‘ contouring’ . These are powerful controls , and Hartke recommend using them first in order to set up the initial sound . This can then be modified by use of the graphic EQ system , if deemed necessary .
Idiom: tit for tat (used idiomatically: yes)
By Mark Davies PRIME Minister John Major was holding crisis talks today with European Commission president Jacques Delors over the looming world trade war . President Delors , in Britain to give a lecture at the London School of Economics , hurried to Downing street at noon for a meeting aimed at avoiding a tit - for - tat trade war with the United States . Mr Major , currently president of the European Community , met Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd and president of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine to discuss the crisis this morning . And he was also planning to speak to German Cancelor Helmut Kohl , Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers and other leaders .
Idiom: hold someone's hand (used idiomatically: yes)
A few days out of Lazar Farm , the group celebrated Lithafest . Leila had planned to keep it rather a subdued affair , but another natro group happened along at the small site they were using and livened things up a little . Ari held Nathan 's hand as everyone greeted the dawn of the Solstice Day . She reflected on how much she had changed since the last festival , less than seven weeks ago . What would she be thinking and doing by Lughmas ?
Idiom: at a loose end (used idiomatically: yes)
ROS : And if not ? GUIL : Then that 's it — we 're finished . ROS : At a loose end ? GUIL : Yes . ( Pause . )
Idiom: slap and tickle (used idiomatically: yes)
No , this television , I do n't hold with it . Entertainment in your living - room . That 's not the place for entertainment — it 's for your knitting and your eating and your bit of slap and tickle . You got ta go out — that 's part of the entertaining . Make a night of it , eh?’
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: yes)
One might ( perhaps ) be able to teach a dolphin to peel a banana , but only if it was incorporated into a sequence of actions required to achieve some goal considered meaningful to the mind of the dolphin — food , affection , play or whatever ! So really , this is no more wonderful than a dolphin learning its way around the complexities of its natural marine environment so that it may find — and catch — the best shoals of fish . Similarly , sea lions being naturally and instinctively dexterous may be taught to balance balls on their noses , respond to particular noises made by the audience or their trainer and even clap their flippers , but to them this is only a means of receiving food , affection , social contact and so on— all these being motives , goals and feelings they experience in the wild . Again , none of the experiments in which chimpanzees have been raised , since infancy , entirely by humans has ever resulted in chimpanzees learning to speak like humans . Neither their mind structure nor their allied vocal chords can accommodate it .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
Not surprisingly he was livid , and having failed to realise that those who laugh easily do not fear easily , he tried several means of torture to get her to consent . It says a great deal about the natural stupidity of tyrants that , having discovered that torture works extremely effectively in intellectual or political cases , they immediately assume that it will work as well in the inspiring of desire in young women . By and large it does not , and it certainly did not in Margaret 's case : she merely laughed all the more , and sang the taunting hymns of her new faith , about how tyrants would be put down from their thrones and the humble and the meek raised up . Then Olybrius ' fury flared and even the ground shook in fear . Deep deep in a limestone cave where the stalagmites grow less than an inch a century , but still tower so high as to humble the cathedrals of the surface , the shaking fear of the ground woke a dreaming dragon .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
Automatically she lifted her head and arms as he finally removed the flimsy barrier and she lay open to his gaze . His hands returned to her waist , spanning her ribs just below her breasts . ' Open your eyes , ' he commanded huskily , and when she did so the look on his face set her blood racing . ' You 're the most beautiful woman I 've ever seen . No , lie still ! '
Idiom: follow in someone's footsteps (used idiomatically: yes)
The conversion was at first a family secret ; when it leaked out to the neighbours the Murphys fled to Dublin , where William worked in his teens in a boot shop . His father became a Protestant lecturer in England , and according to his son a Catholic mob stoned him to death . Murphy followed in his father 's footsteps . The Protestant Electoral Union of 3 Craven Street , Charing Cross , employed him as a lecturer from the early 1860s . His argumentative gifts as a popular orator attracted crowds willing to pay a penny or two to hear him .
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: yes)
The situation where one French machinegun section found itself holding a hole in the front two hundred yards wide with its two machine guns for several days in complete detachment from the rest of the army , was by no means unique . To add to this demoralising sense of isolation , the tenacious curtain of smoke from the bombardment meant that the front line frequently could not see the supporting troops behind ; nor , worse still , could their rockets of supplication asking for the artillery to bring down a barrage , or cease shelling their own positions , be seen at the rear . Countless were the true heroes of Verdun , fighting small Thermopylaes in the shell - holes , who remained unsung and undecorated because no one witnessed their deeds . After twenty months of fighting , where twenty times I should have died [ Raymond Jubert admitted]I have not yet seen war as I imagined it . No ; none of those grand tragic tableaux , with sweeping strokes and vivid colours , where death would be a stroke , but these small painful scenes , in obscure corners , of small compass where one can not possibly distinguish if the mud were flesh or the flesh were mud .
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: no)
Them two will be the next.’ He pointed at us kids . Then he paused , put his hand in his pocket and threw four half crowns on the table . ‘ That 's the last yer'll get off me an ' do n't forget I want my suit from the pawnshop when I come back ter fetch me other things.’ And with that he left , making sure he gave the door a good hard slam as well .
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: yes)
The frequencies of these breakage types are shown in columns 2 and 3 in Table 3.7 . One other type of breakage is enumerated in Table 3.7 , damage to the incisor alveolus along the inferior border of the mandibular body . The bone is very thin at this point , so that damage to the bone , and subsequent loss of the incisor , occurs to some degree in all of the predator assemblages ( Fig . 3.14 F , G - H ) . Fig . 3.12 Categories of mandible breakage . A. complete ; B. broken ascending ramus ; C. ascending ramus missing ; D. ascending ramus missing and inferior border broken .
Idiom: touch and go (used idiomatically: yes)
He appeared to shrug off the news but there is no question that it interjected some kind of identity crisis into his life . There was also one piece of the jigsaw that now slotted into place : before June died , he took LSD in controlled circumstances with a therapist : ‘ I became conscious of very early emotions about not being wanted — feeling that I was a problem to my family as an infant.’ It was quite coincidental that June , by her search for a new life in California , drew him towards what would be the hub of the rest of his life and it was touch and go whether he stayed or went back to Neptune . Also , coincidentally , other rebels were gathering in that same year . Jack went west for a holiday in the summer of 1954 while he contemplated his future .
Idiom: state of the art (used idiomatically: yes)
FOODSERVICE State - of - the - art hot meal vendor CAFE Quick is a state - of - the - art vending machine which dispenses freshly cooked meals from frozen in less than a minute . It holds 216 packets of food in a freezer unit fitted with a first - in - first - out stock rotation system and an alarm , which will shut down operations if the temperature gets too high . Once the machine is activated , either by coins or cards , a hydraulic lift places a plate with the selected food into a microwave for defrosting .
Idiom: hear things (used idiomatically: yes)
His health . His heart was pounding like a steamhammer . They could be banging on the outside doors right now , and he would n't hear a thing . He found the matches , shakily opened the box , and spilled them everywhere . He had to get on his knees to find one .
Idiom: go down like a lead balloon (used idiomatically: yes)
You could see her thinking about it , but you could n't have heard that on the phone . Yeah , you do get silences like that sometimes do n't you ? And you get silences on the phone and you 're thinking this is going down like a lead balloon . No ! She 's engaging brain it takes her some time to come out to the phone instruct the whole thing .
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
Their club Synergy is on tour and will be coming to a town near you , where you can experience a live set along with the DJs , lights and neurotechnology that is now associated with them . The Shamen are a tad pissed off that nobody seems to write about them without dropping in a few drug references . So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . Which is ironic , since we have met up at the Wardour Street , a company specialising in neurotechnology for the consumer . Literally altering your consciousness — without the use of chemicals — these innovative ‘ brain machines’ can ‘ zap’your brainwaves from Beta ( the state we consider ‘ normal’ ) to Alpha ( the waves produced when we are relaxed ) and then to Theta ( which are produced in sleep ) .
Idiom: jobs for the boys (used idiomatically: yes)
Council drops action against paper By Alan Forbes MONKLANDS District Council became the target of fresh accusations yesterday after it abandoned legal action against the local newspaper that had run a campaign against an alleged jobs - for - the - boys ' mafia . ' The council 's ruling Labour group decided last November to seek legal advice from counsel about taking action against the Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser . The decision was taken after the paper had published a series of articles alleging nepotism in job appointments and an unfair distribution of funds in the district .
Idiom: keep the wolf from the door (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Small fry?’ said Wexford , still thinking of his fish and water metaphors . ‘ Very small . No sign of any more money than is needed to keep the wolf from the door . Still , I 've been through the trade directory and come up with something a bit more hopeful . There 's a firm in London , in Deptford , calling themselves McCloy & Son Ltd. , and what d'you think their line of business is?’
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: yes)
He set off in pursuit of the fatally wounded officer shouting : ‘ He is still alive , I am going to get him . ’ As Sergeant King struggled to get into the car of a passing motorist , Vernage continued his attack , plunging his knife again and again into the policeman . Vernage and his terrified sidekick Grenfell , 29 , went on the run . They were only caught after being stopped for a burglary they did n't commit . PCs Simon Castrey and John Jenkinson approached their car , little knowing what awaited them .
Idiom: up for grabs (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's all about motivation and each week we set each other challenges and incentives.’ Incentives for the most sales include trips on the Orient Express , holidays in Greece , weekends in Barcelona and trips to Australia . The competitive spirit thrives because the salespeople — sorry demonstrators — know there are good prizes up for grabs . But the rivalry is friendly . There 's a feeling of belonging and caring ; the demonstrators seem bonded together by a common link .
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: yes)
The benefits established does the book provide the blueprint solution ? Mr Hicks presents his abc in three sections . The first forcibly draws the reader 's attention to the changing costing scene that has placed traditional costing systems in the dock . His case for the prosecution is not new;Relevance Lost opened the debate , and in the subsequent years many authors have followed to offer similar evidence . Section two takes the reader into the abc implementation ; a course that only the most dedicated of accountants will work through .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Otherwise , Hibs could now go on their summer holidays and few would notice . It looked on Saturday as if they had declared a premature end to the season , in any case . Rangers ' Stuart McCall spent more time on the ball than all of Hibs ' midfield put together and never wasted a moment , either . The outstanding player afield when Rangers drew with FC Brugge in Belgium two weeks ago , McCall will look to help his club go one better on Wednesday night . ‘ There was a feeling of disappointment that we were held to a draw in Bruges and the atmosphere in the dressing room at the Olympiastadion only lifted after we heard that Marseille had suffered the same result against CSKA,’ said McCall .
Idiom: jump to conclusions (used idiomatically: yes)
It is clear that signalling is one of the vital factors that , unfortunately , has contributed in the immediate past to several major accidents . Mr. Rifkind The hon . Lady should not jump to conclusions . My understanding is that the signalling in the Severn tunnel area is relatively new , and was installed in the relatively recent past . The suggestion inherent in her question — that the signalling is antiquated — does not appear to be justified .
Idiom: put paid to (used idiomatically: yes)
Ray French Wigan 44 , Sheffield 10 THREE second half tries in eight minutes from Wigan put paid to any hopes the ambitious Eagles had of grabbing a shock win at Central Park last night . And following touchdowns by Denis Betts and Shaun Edwards it was the dramatic try - scoring thrust of Martin Offiah that brought the 8,261 crowd to their feet . Andre Stoop and Betts , who added his second try in the 75th minute , took Eagles by surprise down the left flank and released Offiah .