Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
The main differences between the SK210 and the SK280 ( the next model up in the range ) are that the SK210 does n't have the built - in weave brushes , nor is the magic cam set for motif knitting supplied with it . It has ten pre - punched cards supplied with it , instead of the 20 that come with the SK280 and SK740 and it does n't have a carrying case . It does come packed in a box of course , but if you want to join a knitting club or class and are asked to bring your machine with you , you may wish you had a carrying case with a handle . The absence of weaving brushes means that , as supplied , the SK210 can not produce knitweave . However , one of the accessories available for all Silver standard gauge machines is a weaving arm ( AW1 ) .
Idiom: no sweat (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Oh well … I 'm sure that you do n't want —’ ‘ It 's no sweat . I 'm doing this Cordon Bleu course as well as the secretarial thing , and I need the practice.’ So they both agreed to show off for the evening .
Idiom: sour grapes (used idiomatically: yes)
ARIES ( Mar 21-Apr 20 ) The situation in the heavens is rather complex , if not explosive , at the moment and you really can not expect any favours to come your way either at home or on the work front . What can you expect is a certain amount of resentment or sour grapes between October 1–4 and , frustrating as it may be , all you can really do about the situation is put up and shut up in the certain knowledge that you will gain your freedom , however long it takes . The Full Moon in your own birth sign on the 14th should certainly be an eye - opener for what can only be described as a partnership or marital affairs — and yet out of all this turmoil will come a new kind of happiness , serenity and security . In fact , anything of a business , property or joint financial nature is so well starred at the end of this month — only the most disillusioned Aries individual could fail to see that what lies ahead is the stuff that dreams are made of .
Idiom: fall short (used idiomatically: yes)
Beecher was not only keen on Teetotalism but on the abolition of slavery . The two causes were closely linked from the 1840s and it is not surprising that when Cassell visited New York in 1853 as a delegate to a World Temperance Convention he would also use Beecher at work in Ohio . From early days English Teetotallers had felt it their duty to correct their American brethren when they fell short , a trait which has become an intricate part of general English attitudes towards America . ( In this way they were of course only following the examples set down in the 1820s and ' 30s by British visitors to America such as Captain Basil Hall or Mrs Frances Trollope . ) ln 1850 the Teetotal Times recorded an ‘ atrocious outrage’ . The Sons of Temperance , a secret American Temperance body , had excluded Negroes .
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: no)
Pleased that his little doll had won ? Surprised that she had the energy ? Pissed off ? Personally , she thought it was fair enough if Connor had a small moment of glory before Jack , armed with the material in the briefcase beside her , hauled her in and finished her little investigation for good and all . ' Yeah , ' Margaret muttered .
Idiom: on paper (used idiomatically: yes)
Soon , newspapers wo n't be printed on paper . They 'll only be available through the Internet .
Idiom: same difference (used idiomatically: yes)
' Call me old fashioned , but I think brains belong in heads , not in tanks . ' ' It 's not a brain , and that 's not a tank , ' Sheldukher replied evenly . ' Same difference , ' the Doctor said casually , and slipped into the command chair as if he had been the ship 's pilot for years . ' Get up , ' Sheldukher said smoothly . ' Sha n't , ' said the Doctor with infinite menace .
Idiom: under the sun (used idiomatically: yes)
Many latifundia were , no doubt , ' abusive ' ; but many were on poor land suited only for extensive and occasional cereal production and ranching . Many reformers were ignorant of farming conditions in Andalusia . Olavide , in the later eighteenth century , dreamed of transforming the whole of lower Andalusia on the model of the English countryside , without seeming to suspect that climatic conditions were radically different and that the creation of artificial meadows was a snare and delusion under the arid sun of southern Spain . Again reformers were undoubtedly right in pointing to precarious tenures as removable hindrances ( estorbos ): many Castilian and Andalusian tenures made improvement by the tenant equivalent to economic suicide and encouraged short leases and rack renting . What these critics did not see so clearly was that elsewhere customary tenures had so confused conceptions of ownership that a clear , profitable , and workable landlord - tenant relationship was difficult to conceive ; while in many regions customary quit rents gave the landlord little surplus to invest , even had he been inclined so to do .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
In Festival Park . Yeah , we went Oh , how much is it to get the pictures , I mean If you go at the six o'clock showing , Monday to Friday it 's two pound ten pence for you . Yeah ?
Idiom: look on the bright side (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Yes , sir.’ ‘ Well , then , there is no mystery after all . And to look on the bright side , you will have your husband with you throughout the summer and I daresay you will enjoy it very much.’ She could not say , at the end of it , that she had . She could not even say she truly felt she had had Ferdinando with her those four months .
Idiom: hold someone's hand (used idiomatically: yes)
There was n't any way to do this tactfully . ' Suicide . ' Celia held out her hand for the paper . ROCK STAR 'S HARAKIRI . Yorick had disembowelled himself , messily but effectively , with his samurai sword .
Idiom: in the altogether (used idiomatically: yes)
Frankly , ' fuck ' is a better word for sexual intercourse than any other . It is unambiguous and to the point . The rest are highly unsatisfactory : ' to sleep with ' is the reverse of the truth ; ' to make love'is far from always the case ; ' to screw'implies male conquest and female submission in altogether too sexist a way ; ' to copulate'is technical ; ' to fornicate'is legalistic ; ' to bang'is too loud ; ' to bunk up 'sounds uncomfortable ; and ' to get it on ' , ' to have it away ' , and ' to have it in ' , are three very crude euphemisms . ' Fuck ' has been around for at least 500 years ( it was listed synonymously with ' sard ' , ' swive'and ' occupy'in John Florio 's Worlde of Words in 1598 ) , but the supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary protests that its etymology is unknown . It may be related to the German ficken ( to strike ) and the Latin pungere ( to prick ) , but the connections have not been proven .
Idiom: in the flesh (used idiomatically: yes)
As her door began to open she grabbed for the telephone , then dropped the receiver as Luke appeared . ' Oh - h , ' she breathed , her heart racing , ' it 's only you . ' ' In the flesh , ' he supplied . ' Why ? Who were you expecting ? '
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: no)
The late start for G must allow it to finish at 15 . Since the job time is 6 the late start must be 9 . The critical path in a PERT network is that in which the times appear in identical pairs in the left and right wings of the symbols forming it . The other jobs have some slack in them and this can be calculated as in Figure 6.7 . PERT and CPM are valuable when planning a project as they help the planner to ensure that all jobs have been considered and placed in the right logical sequence .
Idiom: by the same token (used idiomatically: yes)
The sense of outrage on the part of both Marx and Braverman at the crippling effects ( physical or spiritual ) on many workers of the division of labour within capitalist enterprises is fully justified , but their unitary and rationalistic conception of the total subordination of labour to capital leads them to an overestimation of the role this division of labour must play in the formation of social collectivities : the extraction of any ‘ skill’ content from labour for the mass of workers ; the homogenisation of ‘ simple labour’in all branches of production ; the cheapening of labour power ; increasingly intolerable oppression —these tendencies are bound to overwhelm any secondary differentiation of the workers by branch or by enterprise and lead to the formation of a revolutionary proletariat . But the division of labour within the enterprise is not a juggernaut which crushes out all trace of ‘ skill’ or peculiarity in the wage - labour of each and every branch of production , and neither can the ‘ capitalist’attain the Taylorist ideal of total control over labour . Homogeneous ‘ simple labour’ is not inexorably established as the norm for wage - labour in capitalist economies , and by the same token it is not inevitable that a uniform structure of division of labour within enterprises will progressively undermine any ties of social identification other than those of ‘ class’ . While not inevitable , it is however clearly possible that a broadly common position within the hierarchical division of labour forms the basis for a corporate body or social collectivity embracing workers in different enterprises and branches . I refer to this below as the ‘ division of labour by strata’ .
Idiom: only time will tell (used idiomatically: yes)
She has always relied on instinct , and for 55 years it has served her well . That same instinct has prompted her to dissociate herself from her granddaughter 's second wedding . Whether or not she has finally lost touch with the sympathies of her daughter 's subjects , only time will tell . Suzie to stay with Lineker By Tim Satchell
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
His mother , Barbara Edwards , of Cae Gwilym Lane , Cefn Mawr , Wrexham , said : ‘ I am very pleased with the verdict today . I did not want a verdict that he was killed in action because he did not go out there to fight . He went out to keep the peace . ‘ Whatever I say is never going to bring him back . But I am so proud of him.’
Idiom: beyond the pale (used idiomatically: yes)
And it would cut his ally Hayling down to size . Both men had fought a long and isolated battle against the move from London . Globe - trotting Pilger regarded even London as provincial ; Manchester was beyond the pale . He described the city as ‘ an interesting train ride away from all the talent and all the good stories.’ He might visit from time to time should a story miserable enough to write about crop up , but there was no way he was going to edit the paper from there .
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: yes)
The cost of getting rid of paint sludges has risen tenfold to $ 250 a barrel . That sort of rise is nothing unusual . In 1978 it cost about $ 2.50 to have a ton of hazardous waste dropped in a safe hole in the ground ; in 1987 the cost ranged from $ 200 upwards . Burning the stuff cost $ 50 a ton in 1978 ; in 1987 fees ran at over $ 200 a ton , or $ 2,000 for really nasty wastes . Such costly advances in disposal have strengthened big garbage companies , but are putting small ones out of business .
Idiom: and then some (used idiomatically: yes)
Susan But what Sheila says is right , is n't it ? I mean you say ‘ I 'm only a housewife’ , and then some man comes home and thinks you 've done fuck - all all day . They never see what you 've done , do they ? I mean , it 's all invisible .
Idiom: horses for courses (used idiomatically: yes)
But anyway w w we 're on board with the the general thing which is important . I 'm sorry , I 'm sorry I 've been a bit steady getting there , but I think it 's an important issue to tackle that , quality is horses for courses and we have to accept the fact that we 're gon na get prestige type jobs and quick slick jobs , especially in the beginning of March every year . Right . Where did quality management come from ?
Idiom: turn heads (used idiomatically: yes)
THE ORIGINS OF BEHAVIOUR Although all organisms show adaptive behaviour , for it is a necessary condition of existence , many highly successful life forms have managed very well without the capacities to learn and remember — even without brains . Think of a sunflower turning its flower head towards a source of light — and therefore of energy . The sunflower does not learn by experience to turn its head more effectively as it matures , or not to turn at all if it is repeatedly electrically shocked every time it does so . The flower - head turning behaviour , adaptive or not , is a ' given ' property of the organism , fixed within its genetic and developmental programme .
Idiom: crystal clear (used idiomatically: yes)
Don is a lady . Dee , a brash , bustling girl . Aberdeenshire farmers , who know a thing or six about land , will tell you that ‘ a mile o ' Dons worth twa o ' Dee’ and whilst the Dee is crystal clear , Don tends to be more coloured and weedy . I know , from deep , personal experience . Six feet deep .
Idiom: weather the storm (used idiomatically: no)
Janice felt like chucking it all in there and then . When you are stretched , it does n't take much to snap you apart . Janice was certainly helped by the sympathetic understanding of her fellow teachers , but the fact that she stayed and weathered the storm had much to do with her deeply held conviction that work must be seen as service . Janice believed that misunderstanding or mistreatment in themselves , though undesirable , should not necessarily deflect you from your course . Working principles
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
Parent / Subsidiary Relationships Perhaps the most important commercial change since the invention of incorporation itself has been the rise of groups of companies with interlinking control and ownership . Given the economic significance of such groups , it may be surprising that neither Parliament nor the courts have yet got to grips with the problems they present . Apart from a few statutory exceptions based on tax , fraud and other predictable areas , the Salomon principle of separate legal personality is still applied to subsidiary companies . The courts have developed some complex tests based on control whereby the subsidiary may be deemed to be an agent of the parent company .
Idiom: take the mickey (used idiomatically: yes)
. Erm Are you taking the mickey ? I 'll give you I give you a clue . Shall I give you a clue ?
Idiom: up to no good (used idiomatically: yes)
Used to be the magistrate , at one time , yes . But I mean , people see the police go in , breaking somebody 's door and going in . Naturally they probably think the police are up to no good . They probably do n't realise wh , they 've got er , er , a warrant from the magistrate to go and do that , Mm .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
Jane and Christina followed . ‘ Bobby , come out here,’ Jane shouted to her husband , who reluctantly joined them . She was hanging over the wrought - iron balcony above the gardens , pointing to the pink and white marquees flapping gently in the breeze like grounded hot - air balloons . There were dozens of staff milling about , laden with trays of crisp white and pink table - linen and embossed silver - plated cutlery . Jane turned to her husband , her plain face animated .
Idiom: break even (used idiomatically: yes)
The major criticism of such charts is that they assume linear relationships between costs and output , and sales]and revenue , whereas this is not always true . The straight lines on the charts may be over - simplified , therefore , and would need to be treated with some caution . Like many other information sources , break - even analysis should preferably be used as one of several devices for obtaining an accurate picture of the business . RATIOS 16 .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
Chris Hutchins Labour 's Mo Mowlam helps us to test Bill Clinton 's ‘ Talk to the people ’ method . TALKING to the diners in a McDonald 's restaurant helped Bill Clinton to win the hearts , minds and votes of Americans everywhere . But how would the British react to being given the chance to air their views face to face with a politician ? TODAY headed off to London 's Clapham High Street with Mo Mowlam , MP for Redcar and Labour 's spokesperson on the City , to find out what the man on the Clapham omnibus — well , in the Clapham McDonald 's — really thinks .
Idiom: in the bag (used idiomatically: yes)
She can put her , her cutters in . Mm . Cos she had them in a plastic bag . Mm . It 's erm Yeah !
Idiom: hit the road (used idiomatically: yes)
And because only a small amount of Gel absorbs a large amount of shock , low profile mid - soles can be used with no loss of cushioning . Making all Asics shoes lighter , less bulky and keeping the foot closer to the ground for extra stability . So next time you hit the road make sure it does n't hit back . Protect yourself with Asics Gel . The Asics A6 Gel .
Idiom: boots and all (used idiomatically: yes)
We 'll have to run!’ The next moment the two of them were running down the drive together and then out on to the road , and Matilda was ahead , pulling Miss Honey after her by her wrist , and it was a wild and wonderful dash they made along the country lane and through the village to the house where Matilda 's parents lived . The big black Mercedes was still outside and now its boot and all its doors were open and Mr and Mrs Wormwood and the brother were scurrying around it like ants , piling in the suitcases , as Matilda and Miss Honey came dashing up . ‘ Daddy and mummy!’ Matilda burst out , gasping for breath .
Idiom: go round in circles (used idiomatically: yes)
And Yeah you can get th I 've seen people spend sort of quite a few minutes going round in circles and give up on that when they 're nearly at the answer . Mm . The easiest thing is if you can just remember one .
Idiom: for good measure (used idiomatically: yes)
The show opens out , however , with a tiny , half length Self Portrait , with hands , painted at Teddington , in 1949 . It continues with a number of other larger framed , and smoke - filled Self Portraits including that with French Horn , of 1956 , and another with Sky Rockets , of the same year . During the late sixties he painted portraits of a number of distinguished folk , and , here , for good measure , are John Betjeman , before he became Poet Laureate , David Jacobs and Harry Secombe . Meadow Well An English Estate , Photographs by Steve Conlon , Central Library , Prince Consort Road , Gateshead ( Until April PHOTOGRAPHER Steve Conlon offers , by way of investigative journalism , an ‘ album’ of 54 stark , black framed , black and white prints , which is being toured , throughout the region , by the now virtually defunct Side Gallery , in Newcastle . This deals with , among other things , a pantomime put on by the Ralph Gardner High School called Thatcherella , children playing in the streets in front of a burn - out shop and around burnt - out cars , as well as those who queued up to help lessen the EC Butter mountain .
Idiom: on the back of (used idiomatically: no)
It was planned as a pilgrimage church with a large crypt for the relics and with stairways leading to it from the aisles . It was built mainly between the late eleventh century and 1197 . The gable façade has three portals , the centre one of which ( 388 ) has columns supported on the backs of oxen ( PLATE 48 ) . Inside , the transept opens behind a triumphal arch which frames the apse with its altar . The famous Bari ( Bishop 's ) throne is here ; this is a magnificent piece of sculpture , 1098 , by Guglielmo ( 425 ) .
Idiom: take a back seat (used idiomatically: yes)
Although he occupied the palace of the former French Governor - General he actually lived in the gardener 's lodging and grew flowers and tomatoes . He dressed the same as all other Vietnamese : a drab tunic suit and sandals made out of old lorry tyres . It does appear that from the late 1950s he took a back seat , leaving the direction of affairs to a collective leadership : Giap as military chief , Pham Van Dong as premier , Truong Chinh as formulator of ideology , Nguyen Duy Trinh as planner and programmer and Le Duan , brought back from the south , taking over as party chief from Ho late in 1957 . Moves for Reunification Resisted by South In foreign policy first priority was given to implementing that part of the Geneva accords which provided for elections throughout Vietnam , originally scheduled for July 1956 .
Idiom: sick and tired (used idiomatically: yes)
I ' m getting sick and tired of Ms. Maruta and her noisy friends .
Idiom: prodigal son (used idiomatically: yes)
In what became the biggest spending spree the club with the Scrooge image has ever embarked on , Nicholas returned home to Parkhead along with his former Arsenal teammate Martin Hayes and another old Celtic Boys ' Club stalwart , the ex - Hibernian midfield player John Collins . When Nicholas returned to Parkhead to play his home debut in a showpiece friendly against Everton he was greeted with rapturous applause . The prodigal son had returned to Parkhead . Ironically , in his biography , written soon after his move to Arsenal , Charlie Nicholas had vowed he would never darken Celtic 's door again . ‘ Since I left , there has been talk about my going back to Celtic , but that will never happen.’
Idiom: make history (used idiomatically: yes)
However the supreme manifestation of " deaf pride " was the election of a deaf man as Chairman of the BDA . As the Vice - chairman , who was re - elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . The two men , who by their election made history and fulfilled the dreams of Francis Maginn , the founder of the BDA , were John McDonald Young and Murray Holmes . Young , a Scot , who had been deafened by illness at the age of three , was fifty - seven years old when he became Chairman . He had been earmarked as a potential leader , in 1979 , by winning the Oloman - Ellis Award , which the National Council of Social Workers with the Deaf inaugurated in 1977 to commemorate the lives of two of their most distinguished members , Robert Stavers Oloman of York and Joseph Ellis of Stoke - on - Trent .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
It is quite usual for the powerful cremaster muscle to pull the testicles upwards and inwards when the outside temperature is cold . In extreme cases testicles can pop inside the inguinal canal in the groin and not be palpable in the scrotum at all . This is a natural protective mechanism well understood by Sumo wrestlers , who massage their testicles out of harm 's way prior to getting to grips with an opponent . SUNBATHING Sixty years ago Lowestoft appointed an inspector of sunbathing .
Idiom: to all intents and purposes (used idiomatically: yes)
As table 12.1 shows , there has been an increase in party unity in the last ten years in the house , but not in Senate . The major difference in the way the British and American assemblies operate concerns the role of committees . To all intents and purposes , congressional committees are Congress . The fate of any bill , whether initiated by the President or by a member , is effectively decided by the committee to which it is allocated on its introduction to Congress . Most bills never re - emerge from committee ; those that do may be altered beyond recognition , and during floor debate , on those lucky enough to get that far , changes are not usually made that go against the wishes of the relevant committee .