Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: dig deep (used idiomatically: yes)
Sudbury move step closer to title SUDBURY took another giant step towards winning Courage League National Division Four South after a heart - warming performance at Basingstoke on Saturday . The Suffolk champions had to dig deep and resist a late rally from their Hampshire hosts , but a try from Steve Glen and some inspired kicking from Steve Dyble nursed Sudbury to their eighth league win . Second - placed London Welsh had a blank weekend , giving Rob Lane 's troops the chance to extent their lead at the top to three points with just three games left . And Lydney , the only other club with a realistic chance of snatching the one promotion place available for next season 's new - look National Division Four , tumbled to a shock defeat at home to Southend .
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
' You clearly knew nothing about what Jeff and Silvia were up to . I jumped to conclusions that I had no right to jump to . ' He pulled an apologetic face . ' I hope you can forgive me ? ' Ronni glanced away to hide the flush that touched her cheeks .
Idiom: hit the headlines (used idiomatically: yes)
Donations / gifts for the raffle and tombola stall please contact : , , any member of the Lourdes Association or leave with Tommy McLoughlin at the Irish Centre . EAST LEEDS — THE REAL STORY OUR BISHOP and the head of a Catholic School took pains to tell the real story when juvenile crime in East Leeds hit the headlines . Police went public after police cars were rammed and officers injured . So media men were invited to visit a Catholic school where Bishop Konstant and headmaster Mr Gerry O'Kane were able to tell the other side of the story of life in the Gipton area .
Idiom: open the floodgates (used idiomatically: yes)
The board of governors of RGU is also to be asked by the union to intervene in the dispute . Lecturers voiced their overwhelming support for Mrs Falconer and her sister at a meeting at RGU yesterday . After the meeting Jack Dale , further education secretary of the Educational Institute of Scotland , of which the AUL is part , condemned the actions of the Principal , Dr David Kennedy , and gave warning that the decision to sack Mrs Falconer could open the floodgates to similar redundancies in other Scottish universities . ‘ We are now in official dispute with the university,’ said Mr Dale . ‘ This is the first time in the history of higher education in Scotland that any lecturer has been threatened with compulsory redundancy.’
Idiom: for good measure (used idiomatically: yes)
I do not make this point to suggest that all these theories are wrong in every detail , but to underline the importance of looking behind the apparently innocent measures on which so much of the global - system literature is based . We must know what we are letting ourselves in for , theoretically , when we use such measures . This is far from an argument that we should avoid such measures ( let alone empirical research itself ) but rather an argument for a continual critical assessment of them , and perhaps a call for better measures . While the global system is most commonly classified in terms of First , Second and Third Worlds , and these are very convenient and for many purposes useful labels , it is certain that they conceal as much as they reveal . If we are to begin to describe the global system in a more theoretically fruitful manner we will have to look behind these labels .
Idiom: night and day (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ It 's not fair!’ he declared , putting the phone back on its rest . ‘ She 's terrified of them ! Lord knows what they say to her , but they must be on at her night and day , to get her into a state where she 's afraid to acknowledge me on the phone!’ Leith knew he was bleeding a little inside , but she also knew there was n't a thing she could say or do to help . ‘ I 'm sorry,’ she said simply , and , with a new awareness of how shattering being in love was , she knew something of how very devastated he must be feeling just then .
Idiom: ride high (used idiomatically: yes)
Seeing her name on none of the placards paraded outside the customs hall , she retreated to the shade of a wall opposite the terminal . At last a car drew up . A fat man alighted and , with the unexpected delicacy of the very fat , nimbled across the road , his belt buckle riding high on his belly . He entered the terminal building , then returned to stand with one hand on his haunch , the other sheltering his eyes to the right , then the left , where Delia Sutherland was sitting on her suitcase , unaccountably invisible to him . ‘ Mr Tucker ?
Idiom: go to the dogs (used idiomatically: no)
It was not , at present , the eternal verities which were occupying her mind but the simple gnawing question of what Memet had been up to behind her back . ‘ How 's Mick getting on?’ he asked , as she dried the dishes . ‘ It 's about time I went to the dogs again . Give him a call and ask him for some winners.’ ‘ Yes,’ said Constance , vaguely .
Idiom: right as rain (used idiomatically: yes)
Of course Dot understood . She 'd heard the landlady say how it was all over now bar the shouting . ‘ He 'll be right as rain , pet,’ said Gloria . ‘ And we 'll be seeing him tomorrow.’ Dot tried not to mind being left on her own in the basement .
Idiom: under the table (used idiomatically: yes)
I began to hum and before I knew it , a tidal wave of crystal - clear sound swept my voice to hitherto undiscovered heights and depths , racing through tunnels of octaves until the sound was n't my own and my ears heard a stranger singing . It was wonderful , he felt it too ; I had found my musical director . He was 24 , highly intelligent , could drink Malc under the table and had a dry , lightning wit . Though he only lived five miles away from‘Tanglewood’— our newly acquired house — it was often more convenient , when we were rehearsing , for him to stay in the guest room . Each visit guaranteed he would leave behind some of his property and after a few weeks we 'd accumulated his record player , eight boxes of books and his Rupert Bear hot - water bottle .
Idiom: make history (used idiomatically: yes)
SOUTH WESTERN STEAM By DICK WOOD TO THE poignant music of the ' Last Post ' , InterCity made railway history on May 20 by celebrating the centenary of the completion of the GWR 's transition from Brunel 's seven - foot broad gauge to Stephenson 's narrower standard gauge . At the same time , InterCity Great Western announced the founding of their new ' flagship passenger business ' , one of five new profit centres which include West Coast ; East Coast ; Midland Cross Country and Anglia & Gatwick . Each is now directly responsible for its own marketing , planning , operations , engineering and balance sheet .
Idiom: pigs can fly (used idiomatically: yes)
Kate 's voice was bitter . Caitlin took another puff on his cigar . ' Pigs can fly already , or so the druggies think when they see the police helicopters . ' Kate closed her eyes . The man thought everything was a big joke .
Idiom: money talks (used idiomatically: yes)
Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . That information could clear Mr Abell 's name — assuming , as he says , he knows nothing about the control of shares held through Sterling Trust . At Geneva airport , there is an advertising hoarding welcoming travellers ‘ to a city where money talks but wealth whispers’ . Sometimes , even a whisper would be welcome . Saunders wins round in fight for legal aid .
Idiom: hate someone's guts (used idiomatically: yes)
There was nothing to keep him here that could outweigh the thought of the possible conspiracies going on behind his back back home . No sir the road led South , to Skytrain . He would settle accounts with his landlady , who hated his guts as much as he hated hers , then he would pack , then he would go home . He would leave this lousy dump . He was ( if none of the mushroom men got in ahead of him ) a man with a future in the University of East Louisiana .
Idiom: seal of approval (used idiomatically: yes)
' The Safe - Buy concept has been so successful that the scheme is now spreading all over the UK , ' says Judith Chalmers . ' This is because , from the public 's point of view , if a company they are thinking of employing by Safe - Buy UK , they know they can proceed with a home improvement with extra reassurance and avoid things going badly or expensively wrong . ' To a company , the Safe - Buy seal - of - approval means they have a start over the cowboys . ' Another consumer rights champion behind Safe - Buy is Lord Michael Winstanley who was for 18 years the presenter of Granada TV 's long - running ' This is Your Right ' programme . He and the staff of Safe - Buy are responsible for checking the credentials of every firm applying for membership .
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: yes)
Let 's suppose I 'm about to shape a V - neck . The N1 cam is between needles 14 and 15 on the left as before . The point cams are at needles 60 on the left and right . I 'm going to shape the right side of the neck first , so I 'll be knitting over needles 0 to 60 on the right of the machine . I do n't want to go all the way to the left of the knitting to pass the point cam at 60 on the left .
Idiom: seal of approval (used idiomatically: yes)
A task force set up two years ago to raise extra money from international business has enabled it to more than double the number of support staff to five ( last year it raised £ 300,000 ) . However , persuading companies to pay out in a worldwide recession is hard - going , and the IASC can not rely on such an uncertain source of funding . IOSCO 's seal of approval would automatically increase corporate interest in the IASC 's future work . Greater financial resources would enable the IASC to satisfy some of its critics . The US and the Anglo - Saxon countries , for example , complain that it spends too much time and makes too little progress on basic standards , which they see as of benefit to developing countries alone .
Idiom: pull the plug (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ There is no doubt about the quality of the coal , but two questions need to be answered — can it be brought out at a price which allows a profit and can the consortium attract the investment required to run the place?’ Although the consortium will not discuss its present financial position , the Bank of Scotland has expressed its concern , in private , to the local enterprise company , Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd. But it is believed that the bank will not pull the plug in haste as its image would take a knock and the money it is owed would be unlikely to be recovered . The Monktonhall miners have secured a number of lucrative deals , including one with ScottishPower which is for five years and believed to be worth £ 10 million . It also has a multi - million pound contract to supply British Coal with up to 90,000 tonnes of domestic coal , but production problems have meant the consortium has fallen well behind with those orders .
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: yes)
To what extent is this a threat to the management development specialist ? In the short term , it may upset established practices . But , in the longer term , it promises to move the specialist closer to the levers of power , which have often eluded his or her grasp , leaving a sense of being on the periphery of events . Nor need specialists be passive spectators during any transition in strategy . They can and should influence events .
Idiom: on the fly (used idiomatically: yes)
Within 6 months he excels at the art . To prove the point his shrimpfly caught the first salmon for 15 years when Kilmaurs Angling Club , of which he is chief fund raiser , visited a river near Crianlarich . Jim has since caught 6 more salmon in Ayrshire rivers on the same fly . The magazine ' Practical Game Fishermen ' has also recognised Jim 's expertise by awarding a £ 15 prize for his invention of a ' Dubbin Twister ' , a technical device to help with fly tying . The irony of it all is that Jim does not eat fish .
Idiom: cut and dried (used idiomatically: no)
Why what else you had ? It was over seven pound . Yeah , but you had a cut and blow dry . Yeah . Yeah .
Idiom: yesterday's news (used idiomatically: yes)
Marley profits plunge MARLEY , the roof tiles to automotive components group , saw profits plunge two - thirds last year and is halving the final dividend . But yesterday 's grim news was not unexpected and Marley 's shares slipped just 2p to 108p . Pre - tax profits slumped from £ 25.0 million to £ 8.1 million in the 12 months to December . The final payment to shareholders is being cut from 4.25p to 2.1p , to make a total of 4.2p for the year , down from 6.35p last time .
Idiom: face the music (used idiomatically: yes)
On the way back to Harwich , the newspapers did a marvellous job of keeping my mind off things , and it was only on the last leg of the journey that the butterflies started to flutter again . Meeting Jenny the following day at least gave me something else to hang on to , but I still had n't the faintest idea how everyone was going to react . I arrived to face the music . Waiting for me behind the counter was Katrina . She quickly disappeared out the back and came around the front to greet me .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: no)
Devon Malcolm and Angus Fraser opened the bowling and both started as they were to go on . Malcolm 's first ball was cut for four by Sidhu . Fraser 's first ball beat Sidhu outside off-stump ; his second , angled in , was worth a shout for lbw . The disappointing slowness of the pitch allowed both openers to play Malcolm off the back foot , and therefore to drive his attempted yorkers . He has two kinds of Test performance — five for very few , and none for a lot , and this was looking like the latter .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
' In Germany they are becoming blase . They expect it . Becker and Graf won Wimbledon and the US Open and did not get their pictures on the front cover of any non - tennis magazines here . ' Becker 's photograph was in the German newspapers yesterday , accompanied by lamentations about his physical condition after a knee injury had caused him to abandon the Classic on Thursday . They were not taking the hero for granted , but missing him madly and praying that he would be fit to return for the Davis Cup .
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
How a single EU supervisor would address the problem of imbalances is not explained , but it is surely a worthy aim . The second objective should be to " break the link between banks and sovereigns , " which has been a particularly dangerous feature of the last year , while the third is to " minimize the risks for taxpayers through adequate contributions by the financial industry . " The third aim could be achieved country by country , but it is certainly arguable that an across - the - board banking levy , or a Europe - wide financial - transaction tax , would eliminate competitive distortions . How might these laudable objectives be achieved ? The European ~ Commission has argued that a fully - fledged banking union would need to rest on four pillars : a single deposit protection scheme covering all EU ( or eurozone ) banks ; a common resolution authority and common resolution fund , at ~ least for systemically important and cross - border banks ; a single European supervisor for the same banks ; and a uniform rule book for prudential supervision of all banks in Europe .
Idiom: up against it (used idiomatically: no)
But there were occasions . W. S. I tried to avoid using the stick . Ran up against it once . We had a bit of a rough do . I was on Fontenoy Street .
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
A wonderful one two with Paul Gascoigne runs under the ball , he obeys the tackle of Steve Foster , he gets round Ken Basey , what a goal , you ca n't do .. So Paul Gascoigne making it three one as I say , having a marvellous match , but United once again came back into things . Les Phillips running the show in mid - field , Steve Foster defending stoutly at the back and the front runners always giving Spurs problems especially when the ball was played over the top . United took off Lee Nogan and brought on Mark Stein and just when the game seemed to be slipping from their grasp , they pulled back a vital goal through Martin Foyle . So eleven minutes remaining plus a little bit of injury time , it 's still Spurs three , Oxford United one , United go forward , a chip forward there by Simpson .
Idiom: see red (used idiomatically: no)
But the 22-year - old , whose triumph with Steve Redgrave in the Olympic coxless pairs last August suddenly seemed light years away , refused to blame Oxford errors for their surprise humiliation . Ref crisis in Youth League CLUBS are seeing red over a shortage of referees in the KY Youth League . The lack of men in black means top young players are involved in highly competitive games week in week out , without the protection of an official . ‘ It 's an unsatisfactory situation,’ said Denis Shields , manager of Glentoran Colts and the Northern Ireland U-18 team .
Idiom: for Africa (used idiomatically: yes)
The last point about the relationship between farmers themselves and their natural environment concerns the production and preparation of food ( including the cooking of it ) . Here again it is a matter of ideological assumptions and the unit of study . Trends in food production by continent , for example , show an increase except for Africa ( FAO annual publications entitled The State of Food and Agriculture ) . Here the level of aggregate production , even at the national level in many cases is not the problem , and I agree completely with Simon and Beckerman 's repudiation of neo - Malthusianism and the Club of Rome 's doom - dominated world model . It is widely recognised that it is not production of food but the low level of demand for food that is the problem for many and for varied reasons related to the forces and relations of production in which people are involved .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
Afterwards he slept badly , his mind swilling with nightmares . He was drowning in the lagoon , sinking beneath the ticking belly of the crocodile . At midday he walked to the Aber House Hotel and rang the bell . A woman appeared in the area below holding a dustpan and brush . She asked what he was selling .
Idiom: against the grain (used idiomatically: yes)
Challenge them to a good old - fashioned fist fight ? I hate to disillusion you , but I 'd have been hard pressed to come out on top with those odds!’ ‘ And that would go against the grain , would n't it … to do anything without working out the odds first?’ Fran stared coldly at him . ‘ However , let 's just get something straight here and now , shall we ?
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's sloppy . I think there 's only one post , and it 's in Jim 's office , where there are too many M S twos existing for the future M S two posts that , that , that we 've got on the document . Apart from that scenario where those people will have to apply for their jobs , and the T Os across the board Mm . where Roger 's getting rid of more T O posts than we 've actually got sitting
Idiom: face to face (used idiomatically: yes)
Bob Holmes on a fearless Thai player and a three - times losing finalist aiming to capture the sport 's biggest prize By BOB HOLMES JAMES WAANA , of Thailand , does not have to read Rudyard Kipling to know that ‘ there is neither East nor West … ’ when he comes ‘ face to face’with his rivals for the Embassy World Championship . Born in Bangkok and based in Bradford , the fifth favourite for the £ 850,000 event which begins in Sheffield tomorrow , Wattana is acutely aware he has divided his recent years between ‘ two ends of the earth’ . But in attempting to become Asia 's first holder of the game 's ultimate prize , the rising star of the East aims to prove that the ‘ the twain’ can not only meet but , by harnessing the best of both hemispheres , he can bring a new dimension to the green baize .
Idiom: easier said than done (used idiomatically: yes)
Let us leave aside other relevant factors such as education , career structure , pay and conditions of service and concentrate on manpower management . It could be argued that if a reduction in the number of 18-year - old girls leaving school is the source of the problem , then increase the proportion of leavers coming into nursing and all will be well . If nursing already recruits 25 % of leavers with between 5 " O " levels and 2 A levels , this is easier said than done , particularly when one considers that other employment agencies are also preparing to compete more aggressively to obtain their share from the pool . For example , a parallel rise in the number of children entering schools will result in an increased need for student teachers . Alternatively , why not turn to male school leavers to make up the difference ?
Idiom: on the back of (used idiomatically: no)
Three sixty . Can you explain to Claire how to do a factor tree ? Should I do it on the back of that ? Erm on a new bit of paper you know have some of , have some of these okay have some of those . Just put a little square there .
Idiom: make the cut (used idiomatically: yes)
If only to stop me dashing round to the newsagent every day to ask if it is in yet around the time due , I shall have to take out an MKM subscription and devote more of my energies to learning how . Dear Anne , Here is my way of making ' cut and sew ' buttonholes , I find it especially useful on difficult yarns , for example , bouclés . Make band and attach to garment . Backstitch a little larger than required size of buttonhole , taking a stitch into each stitch of knitting .
Idiom: off the hook (used idiomatically: yes)
Right , were now on other reports . Any body got any thing else to report , with got a few minutes left ? Yes , no , any other business , you can all go , your all off the hook .. They 'll start arguing now . Come on a Wednesday , but I think I 'll come on Thursday and Friday .
Idiom: head south (used idiomatically: yes)
The eagle had been sighted at various points all over the British Isles by enthusiastic birdwatchers , most of them amateurs . So varied were the locations — from Cornwall to Wales , from Somerset to Kent , that most could be discounted . There was even a report from three sea anglers off Folkestone who saw the eagle heading south - west over the Channel towards France . But the more reliable sightings , by experienced observers , showed that the eagle was going northwards . Mr Wolski had already read the accounts of him being seen over the Chiltern Hills north - west of London soon after leaving the Regent 's Park area and later a certain sighting by a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in East Anglia who saw him feeding off sheep carrion on chalk downland .
Idiom: for good measure (used idiomatically: yes)
But it had n't flowered and as far as she could tell , had no intention of doing so . She also felt the tiniest bit muzzy and hoped that she had n't a cold coming on . In the end , she made herself a drink of hot milk with a dash of brandy and took it up to bed , taking along the hot water bottle for good measure . Either it was the brandy or it was the heat , but she went out like a light . As sometimes happened she awoke equally suddenly .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
A little bit of er thought given to the title of that . I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I dunno , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . I was really quite impressed ! I did n't realize that they could be got ready in such a short space of time .