Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
Their apparent wealth notwithstanding , there are rumblings of unease within parts of the lieutenancy about the cost of it all . Except for an entitlement to a police car and driver when attending official functions , they receive no formal allowances . Most expect to meet the out - of - pocket expenses of the job themselves , but some feel the whole business is getting too costly . To begin with , there is the expense of the uniform , which London military tailors run up for about £ 2,000 . Most lord lieutenants are scarcely in jobs where they have employers breathing down their necks about time off , but there can be substantial day - to - day expenses .
Idiom: I'll eat my hat (used idiomatically: yes)
A few of our players have an awful lot to prove both to themselves and to the fans i.e. Deane ( to score more than once in a game ) , Newsome ( to defend well against good opposition ) , Fairclough ( to prove to the manager that he is one of the best man to man markers in the game ) . Need I go on … Seriously , if Fairclough is n't man marking Shearer on Sunday I 'll eat my hat . I 'll bet if Fairclough is on flash he wo n't score , if he 's not , watch out Leeds , for if he does score it will be all our own fault as we have the ammunition to stop him . I hope Speed and Wallace are back to give up some gizz up front .
Idiom: new blood (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We shall get our friends down from London with the fish.’ Traditional entertainment was rooted in local interdependence — it was a form of community cement . At its best , it extended the family circle and brought in new blood ; it relayed vital personal information ( too often dismissed as gossip ) and offered an informal moot for exchanging opinions and information . In different forms it could provide marriage market ( 21st birthday party or coming - out - ball ) , gynaecological information service ( women withdrew from male company at some point during the evening ) , a seasonal celebration of community spirit ( harvest home , yuletide ) or a mark of respect to a human life ( funeral , wake ) . COMMUNITY cooperation always ended in a party , be it a barn - raising , as in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers , or the annual distribution of porcine largesse at pigkilling time described by Flora Thomson in Lark Rise to Candleford .
Idiom: cuckoo in the nest (used idiomatically: yes)
Rather , town planning became involved in other environmental and social concerns almost by chance , though its claim for a comprehensive , synoptic view of things perhaps made expansionism inevitable . The analogy may be of Britain gaining an Empire by accident , and then losing it ; this century , town planning has expanded its subject field , as disciplinary boundaries first collided and then were realigned , at a time when the nature of complex environmental problems was reidentified and expressed again in different terms . A professional cuckoo in the hybrid nest of lawyers , architects , engineers and surveyors was the ultimate beneficiary in a long story of disciplinary realignment . To continue the analogy : the Empire was lost in a pragmatic adjustment to international reality — in the context of late twentieth - century professional demarcations will town planning be the loser in the redefinition of urban problems and preferences for their solution ? We shall return to this speculation later ( see p. 190 ) .
Idiom: marching orders (used idiomatically: yes)
The young midfielder was booked for a foul on Jean Karlen in the 28th minute . And when he clashed with Mario Cantaluppi in the 65th minute he was sent packing . The Swiss player also got his marching orders and team - mate Raphael Comisetti went two minutes later for a lunge at Darren Salton . The young Scots crashed to a surprise defeat through goals from Sven Christ and sub Marcel Meier . Ferguson became the first player to be sent off in the six - year reign of Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh .
Idiom: lose heart (used idiomatically: yes)
In The Lord of the Rings it can be expressed by such high - status characters as Faramir , who says at one point that he does not hope to see Frodo ever again , but nevertheless invents a picture of them in an unknown future ‘ sitting by a wall in the sun , laughing at grief’ . However the true vehicle of the ‘ theory of laughter’ is the hobbits ; their behaviour is calqued on the traditional English humour in adversity , but has deeper semantic roots . Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt’ . But Sam on the road to Mordor goes beyond both . He has less hope even than Faramir .
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
This rapid - deployment force is not officially assigned to the UN but is under the command of General Bir 's deputy , General Thomas Montgomery , who happens , by no coincidence at all , to be an American . Bringing the big boys in under a UN flag is exposing a clash of styles ; they tend to have their own way of doing things and there is pressure on the organisation to conform . The UN felt swamped by the quality and quantity of NATO staff work — NATO planners turned up with no fewer than five bound volumes — in the initial stages of the joint operation that was set up to keep the peace in Bosnia should the Bosnian Serbs join the Croats and Muslims in accepting the Vance - Owen peace plan . A more telling example is that there is no UN chain of command to carry the news of a casualty in the field speedily to his or her family at home . Military bureaucracy is something new for an organisation that can beat all - comers at the civilian variety .
Idiom: break someone's heart (used idiomatically: yes)
As he staggered on he could visualise the young Julie running alongside him , red faced and tight lipped . He had loved that girl from afar after that first incident , but she had been too full of fun and the love of life to worry about boyfriends . As the war approached , her father , Colonel Joshua Murchison had sent her to live with his sister in California It had almost broken Yanto ' s heart at the time . A patch of soft sand almost sent him sprawling . God , he was tired .
Idiom: draw a blank (used idiomatically: yes)
I nibble a few agreeably soft haws , whose flesh always reminds me of slightly overripe avocado pear , then start on the blackberries , which are still swelling in good numbers , despite all those saws about not picking them after Michaelmas . Even berries from adjacent bushes can taste quite different , with hints of grape , cherry , plum , and subtly varied textures , reminding you that there are 400 micro - species of bramble in Britain . But I draw a blank with hazelnuts . It was not a good year for them to start with , and this year 's explosion in grey squirrel numbers seems to have put paid to the few that did form . I try a few tricks , such as getting inside the bushes and looking out , hoping that any clusters will be more visible against the sky .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: no)
I chose the bus . The corkscrew mountain road over to Takaka had been recently graded and smoothed , in preparation , I discovered , for a visit by the Queen of the Netherlands . Further south , the bus has another massive climb , 3,000 feet over the Takaka Hill and the same down . A challenge to cycle over , maybe for my next visit ! Then it was on to Nelson , where we had lunch with Chris Williams ( mother of Ian , Anne and Claire ) , looked round the Art Gallery , and continued 35 miles to Pelorus Bridge .
Idiom: cast your mind back (used idiomatically: yes)
Let me be explicit . Let me give examples . Cast your mind back to my description of the girl in the coffee bar , the one I gazed at earlier on in this long night , the coldest night of the year . She is the last woman I saw . And she can stand as an example of all my attitudes or of every other encounter with the female sex .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: no)
The supposedly irritable elderly person is often the one who has had the gall to defend against such ( often unintended)‘put - downs’ . Award Title : Patterns of language use in the black British community Award Type : Research Grant ( Project )
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
SHEFFIELD PARK GARDEN Midway between Lewes and East Grinstead . East of A275 . 100 acres of beautiful gardens and woodlands with 5 lakes on different levels joined by cascades and waterfalls . The 18thC garden is carpeted with daffodils and bluebells in Spring followed by magnificent rhododendrons and azaleas . Its many rare trees turn into a blaze of red and gold in Autumn .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
Londoners for four generations , they went back triumphantly each year to the village in Italy from which they had sprung to buy wine and show off their wealth . And occasionally to bring back a bride . He could see down the road to No . 22 . The Pitts had certainly livened up the appearance of their house since their return . The window - boxes were in full bloom .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
There are 23 residents at the Shantallow Residential Home for the Elderly , and a number of these were moved last year when the Roe Valley home closed . They will now be moved into one of the three remaining homes for the elderly on the city 's west bank and it is understood that staff will also be deployed at these units . The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives.’ Mr Frawley said that staff would work closely with residents to ensure the minimum of upset . The Board 's decision has been criticised by SDLP leader and Foyle MP John Hume .
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: no)
That 's right yes and erm it was all er , now it is more , more mechanized , but still , they 're still , I do n't know whether they still do it cos I have n't been around Squires I do n't know whether they 'd do casting now , I have n't been down around for years and years , when I erm when I left and then I went into the leather trade and er started to learn leather cutting When , when you left was there any sort of erm did you get a send - off or any sort of recognition of all the work you 've done or anything ? Erm I do n't think I did no , oh no they did n't they would n't think of doing that then , but they do now and erm then I , I 've been around at Wiggens the old hall table where people you know , worked in the warehouse there and I 've done all sorts Do , do you think conditions improved while you were at Squires ? They 'd , they had to because there were , they got , when , after the union was formed you know , they were having the rights er but and I think really the hours they put in and the type of work they deserved it , but erm there was a time you know when the bosses were bossy sort of thing , and er and you adhered to that , because you did n't know anything different until erm the unions started up , but erm I know there were one or two processions you know and peer rights and all this that and the other , but erm on the whole it 's er it 's been an eventful life in , in some ways , very eventful and it 's been interesting .
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: yes)
She went often to see his family . Mrs Redmond worked part - time in Mill Road Hospital , but John 's grandmother was always there and delighted to see Anne . She told her many tales of the days during the Great War when John was a baby and he and his mother had lived with her and Lawrie , as they sat together , Sally holding a skein of white wool while Anne wound it into a ball . After the long drawn - out years of waiting suddenly the war was going well on all fronts and the end was in sight . Joe wrote of the scenes when Brussels was liberated , of the joy of the population and their wonderful welcome to the troops .
Idiom: hit the sack (used idiomatically: no)
I hear that editor David Thomas 's valedictory piece did not go down too well either . It has been amended . Peterborough : Hitting the Sack IF LABOUR wins , Neil Kinnock will have little to decide in the selection of his Cabinet . With almost all posts going to the present Shadows , interest centres on the choice of Lord Chancellor .
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
He looks like a Ow ! I can change hands he ca n't Do it faster , do it faster dad ! he ca n't change mouth .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: no)
There was no sign of either Bonnington 's group or that led by McGonigal . Only four officers and eighteen other ranks survived to fight on . On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . Early Raids in the Western Desert It was a pretty despondent group that sat around the fire of the LRDG patrol , each sunk in his own thoughts .
Idiom: at the crossroads (used idiomatically: yes)
Is that what Bonaparte 's doing to us ? ' Sharpe stared down at the map . From the Prince 's headquarters a road ran eastwards through Nivelles to meet the Charleroi highway at an unnamed crossroads . If that crossroads was lost , then Napoleon would have successfully swung the two doors apart . The British and Dutch had been worrying about Mons , but now Sharpe took a scrap of charcoal and scrawled a thick ring round the crossroads .
Idiom: plain sailing (used idiomatically: yes)
RISLEY crews breezed to an easy victory to retain the Inter Site Sailing Trophy and left rivals trailing in their wake . Eighteen boats , including crews from Capenhurst , Sellafield , Springfields and risley gathered at Belmont reservoir , home of Bolton Sailing Club , to contest each of the three races . But it was n't going to be all plain sailing . Half way round the first lap a short sharp guest of wind took them by surprise and they found themselves having an early bath . The strong winds took their toll throughout the day with most competitors finding themselves going overboard at some point during the faces , which came under the control of Bolton Sailing Club officials .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
I ca n't think that all that much goes through you know , to be honest . Obviously Yeah well but by and large we 've not Yeah . really been on their wall have we ?
Idiom: ahead of the game (used idiomatically: yes)
I 'm alive . Causing trouble . I suppose you 're ahead of the game if you 're alive . Yes . That 's it .
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: no)
Why some of these underlined in red Paul ? What ? Why some of these words underlined in red ? Well it 's the T words here , that 's what I used in there . No you did n't .
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: yes)
Operation can be linked either to the completion of short - term ( one - off ) service agreements only , or can be based on agreements that are valid in the long term , as shown in the following diagram : Fig . 4 - 1 : Service agreements Service contracts Long - term agreements for services In service contracts or maintenance contracts , you agree the content and the extent of services that you perform for customers .
Idiom: work wonders (used idiomatically: yes)
Your intended frame may have a broken mitre , or a missing section of decorative moulding . The gold covering may be flaking away , exposing the white plaster , or gesso , underneath . If the frame appears to be in reasonably good condition , you may find that you work wonders by just giving it a proper clean . To do this , use some soft cotton wool , dipped in white spirit , to remove any ingrained dirt , repeating the process several times if necessary until you have dislodged and removed the years of neglect . Polishing with a soft cloth will bring the surface back to life .
Idiom: on the make (used idiomatically: no)
Date : Mon , 17 Jan 1994 16:12:44 +0000 ( GMT ) Subject : Shearer Putting Fairclough on Shearer would make a lot of sense and run to form … Do people think Battyburn are that good or is it just shearer ? ? ? Tim G
Idiom: go by the board (used idiomatically: yes)
Incidentally , Willoughby , you 've earned yourself a black mark for that little trouble . It amounts to a reprimand.’ All efforts to appear polite and subdued went by the board . This gross libel by the Court of Enquiry must be hotly defended . ‘ A reprimand ?
Idiom: fall from grace (used idiomatically: yes)
Plenty of money for the unsuccessful , lots of coaches , plenty of interviews on how tough it all is and no results at all . Golf , to date , has avoided this , largely due to Ballesteros , Woosnam and others emerging from humble beginnings through their own efforts . Coaches are popular in the US but this , by my theory , is the reason for their fall from grace as the world 's greatest players . While Faldo has been very successful with David Leadbetter , I am more concerned by the specialist looking after his wrist . Is this the start of a Martina Navratilova type of entourage ?
Idiom: do a runner (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ It 's not a case of whether I like it or not , more a case of whether you can find him or not.’ Ruth 's stomach tightened . Surely Steve had n't done a runner ? She could see it all — Fernando 's heavies hauling Steve from his bed this morning , threatening him with concrete trainers and a long drop into the sea from Fernando 's yacht … Ruth leaned forward and took another ensaimada ; she was still so hungry it was definitely affecting her brain .
Idiom: in the flesh (used idiomatically: yes)
Of earth 's environment made every birth afresh , New inspiration quickened by the forming mind . The word had come , engendered in the flesh To shape a further consciousness . For once
Idiom: pull a rabbit out of a hat (used idiomatically: yes)
Sadly the ' experiment ' only lasted for two short , but exciting , months . Now , 40 years on there is the prospect that I will once more see an A1 thundering up an incline . Preservation is about to pull its biggest rabbit out of an amazingly copious hat . The building of an A1 locomotive , from scratch , is fast becoming a reality . A sum in the region of a half a million pounds has already been raised or pledged .
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
And when he went on saying nothing but " Eh ! eh ! " and kept advancing toward me step by step , I was suddenly seized with so curious a sensation of disgust that I hastily jumped to my feet , leaped over the fence , and , without looking round , ran across country until my fiddle in my pocket twanged again .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
Fenna would have killed her . She would have been locked up in a mental hospital , or alternatively taken off for parapsychological testing and Rachel would have been unforgiving . Rachel believed that mechanistic science could explain all phenomena , even those of the heart and soul ; Rachel would never have forgiven her , the last place of safety and affection would have been taken away . Fenna had become too powerful . Maggie did not want to be a crazy person .
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: yes)
We are cleared by Air Traffic Control to taxi and take off . Once clear of Salisbury Plain the real flying begins . Our aircraft leads the way whilst the second weaves to left and right to cover our tail . Not only do we have the problem of the exercise tactical scenario , but also there are real dangers . As we descend we slow down and begin to call out hazards as soon as they are seen : ‘ wires left to right 500 metres’ , ‘ birds two o'clock’ .
Idiom: hit the jackpot (used idiomatically: no)
SIXTH - formers will soon be able to study how to become a private eye . A detective course is among a number of vocational studies planned to run alongside traditional academic courses from September next year . Tom hits jackpot RETIRED match maker Tom Hayes has struck it lucky — with a £ 10,000 Mirror Bingo jackpot . Tom , 68 , will share his win with his eight children , 14 grandchildren and five great - grandchildren .
Idiom: in a nutshell (used idiomatically: yes)
Well , as I was explaining , we 've built into our amplifier the pressure - sensitive transducer of pressure - sensitive attenuating network , which is the inverse of an equal loudness curve , the resultant readings being denoted by D B As , that 's decibels of the A kind . Excuse me , is that , is that all about noise ? In a nutshell , yes . How many of you would have actually switched off by now ? Yes — oh , gosh , the rest of you are very good — anyone
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: yes)
On the other hand , only works of art made more than one hundred years ago will carry an export ban . This means , for example , that some of the Russian Avant - garde might soon be on the international art market . It goes without saying , however , that not all works of art made since the beginning of this century will be available for export ; a list of unexportable items will be drawn up . Exceptions will be made , of course , for exhibitions abroad , but in such cases sound security conditions will be required . The existing 100 % Custom fees will be abolished , but all those wanting to sell Russian art abroad will have to pay a varying sum to the Federal National Heritage Service for such a permission .
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: no)
But costume jewellery had the distinct advantage of not pretending to be anything other than what it was . I 'm going to have a good time , she told herself firmly when she heard André 's knock on the door . And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . Somehow she doubted that preparing meals for the child and the husband featured very high on the agenda . How she managed to get through the next few hours mystified her .
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
But Diodorus himself probably added the titles used of Gelon ; in the same way he regularly gives his early Egyptian pharaohs the hellenistic royal virtues . Diodorus ' information then was possibly false ; but his insight is correct . The tyrants of classical Sicily did indeed behave like the kings of hellenistic Greek history , intermarrying ( with a vengeance : they practised polygamy ) , shifting populations around ( Gelon 's transfer of capital and population to Syracuse ) , and building on a heroic scale . They anticipated the hellenistic taste for theatre : Dionysius I brought his bride from Italian Lokri in a warship decorated with gold and silver ; Plutarch 's Life of Demetrius has a splendid account of the cortège in which the third - century king Antigonos Gonatas brought back by sea to Macedon the funeral casket of his father Demetrius . The Sicilian tyrants also look backwards to the archaic age of mainland Greece : Gelon 's appeal to the Syracusan populace is demagogy of a kind that recalls Pisistratus , as does Dionysius ' demand for a bodyguard .
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: yes)
TIM RUSSON Voice over and bearing in mind Northampton 's the centre of the boot and shoe industry guess what their fans sing … What a load of old cobblers … daren't tell you what Hereford supporters were singing about the ref tho … to the first division now … a draw for Oxford … defeat for Swindon Voice over
Idiom: go public (used idiomatically: yes)
Dr Browne was forced to resign . Dr Browne has been something of a maverick in Irish politics even up to this present time . He took the unprecedented step of going public on the issue , an action of which Whyte does not sufficiently stress the importance . He handed on the correspondence between himself and the Bishops to the Irish Times , the recognized liberal and ‘ protestant’ newspaper of the republic . It was a contentious gesture .