Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: yes)
The elimination of neck tension can relieve headaches , frozen shoulder , tennis elbow , wrist pain , shoulder - blade , mid - back and low - back pains , hip , knee , ankle and foot pains , lumbago , sciatica and general ‘ neuralgic’ aches and pains , often without any other treatment being required . If a condition is simply due to muscle tension , either as a result of an injury ( whiplash injury to the neck is a common one ) or due to postural defects , then this type of therapy is the treatment of choice . It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body . The terms ‘ stiff - necked’ , ‘ tight - lipped’ , ‘ pain in the neck’ and so on are part of common everyday usage , and indicate something rather deeper than a simple muscle tension problem . Such postures are often a pointer to some deeply suppressed emotion or past traumatic episode .
Idiom: drop someone a line (used idiomatically: yes)
If it 's not for sale , I 'll pay you to let me borrow it . Get writing . CARPHONE OUT OF ORDER , so could girls 17 - 21 drop me a line- Must like acid , Balearic , deep , etc- Love’ n’stuff , Bri . I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU IN MY ARMS and kiss you , very hard and very quickly ! Get scribbling to me , if you 're 18 - 21 , female , pretty , and live in Cambridge- I 'm 20 and like almost anything , including rock music and lipstick smudging !
Idiom: make history (used idiomatically: no)
Combermere is the 8 - 1 favourite with Ladbrokes for the Scottish National at Ayr on Saturday , but with expected soft ground , Martin Pipe 's Riverside Boy ( 10 - 1 ) might prove the value . Racing : Record odds HISTORY was made at Kelso yesterday when Countess Crossett was backed at 5,000 - 1 , the biggest price ever laid on a British racecourse . The mare , who finished ninth in the Sprouston Claiming Hurdle , was laid at the four - figure price by two Tattersalls bookmakers before being returned at 500 - 1 . Kelso also holds the record for the highest - priced winner , Equinoctial , at 250 - 1 in a handicap hurdle in November , 1990 .
Idiom: a little bird told me (used idiomatically: yes)
' Les artistes restent les artistes , ' said his wife . Bouvard et Pécuchet , Flavia said , not aloud . ' A little bird tells me — oh , St - Jean is full of them — you are dining every night at that great barrack of a house . ' Peinture a l'huile — cuisine au beurre , ' said Flavia . Comment ? '
Idiom: to the hilt (used idiomatically: yes)
If , however , Gavin had stomped in and told her she was a piece of shit , would the audience with the Goddess Of Tedium have lasted for more than one sentence ? His detached look at the phenomenon and at his feelings at the proximity of such a western icon were as much as you could expect . As for NME 's opinion of her work , you should know how much we love Madonna by how much we love Ice - T , Suede and all the other insolent wasters we praise to the hilt each week . Our interest in Madonna is as a phenomenon and almost academic . As anyone who has n't been in a media - induced coma over the last ten years knows , her trite ditties are irrelevant to the story — IM
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: no)
He relied on his mind 's eye and ear — and nose . The result is a townscape of ‘ terrible despairing cries ’ which mean , and mean more than , that the drunks are leaving the pubs between two and three o'clock in the morning , the pubs that reek of alcohol and cucumber and fish . A townscape of nightmare yellows : sky , buildings , furniture , wallpaper , faces — the colour of age , heat , pestilence , bile and jaundice , bruisings and stainings , with a stronger connotation of dirt in Russian than in English ; the colour of the tickets of identification which prostitutes were required to carry ; the colour of Raskolnikov 's ‘ cubbyhole ’ of a room ; and the colour which greets him when he comes to after fainting at the police station and sees a man ‘ holding a yellow glass filled with yellow water ’ . Looking over Dostoevsky 's shoulder , we find him first writing ‘ small yellow glass ’ , then deleting ‘ small ’ ; and writing ‘ water ’ then adding ‘ yellow warm ’ to the water , then deleting ‘ warm ’ — the final text uniting an apocalyptic starkness of yellow meets yellow with the topicality of Petersburg 's notoriously filthy water supply , a subject of much comment and complaint in the newspapers . At such moments we come as close as it is possible to get to the spirit of Crime and Punishment .
Idiom: drop the ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Their team froze in the face of the opening blast from Burnley , which brought a 27th - minute goal from Roger Eli . He came on for the injured Mumby and headed in a perfect Measham cross to score his first goal for the club . Litchfield , who had kept Scunthorpe in the competition by saving a late penalty in the game at Glanford Park , almost gave this one away in the opening minutes when he dropped the ball at the feet of Ronnie Futcher . But the angle was too acute for the veteran striker . Understandably on an East Lancashire night as cold as a tomb , Scunthorpe took a while to warm up .
Idiom: in stitches (used idiomatically: yes)
This is easily done if the point cams are not placed exactly in the 24 stitch placings . Next we moved on to the ‘ enlarger’ on the E6000 . One knitter wanted just an ordinary pattern in stitch Pattern A , starting on R1 . She did n't want to ‘ enlarge’ or ‘ alter’it , but no matter how she tried , the machine would not knit the pattern . I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge’ and had asked it to start on R8 .
Idiom: lone wolf (used idiomatically: yes)
It would be misleading to imply from the experience of Mazda that all large companies have immunity from bankruptcy . What really influences the incidence of rescue operations is partly the extent of danger to related companies , but also the degree of previous cooperation with group objectives which incur debts of gratitude for past favours . Unlike Mazda the bankruptcy of the Sanko Steamship Co. in 1985 did not stir any great sympathy because the company management had a previous record of arrogance ‘ likened to that of a rowdy lone wolf refusing to line up with other shipping firms’(FTW31/8/85 ) . In this case the company 's record was instrumental in the failure of the usual support mechanisms despite the presence of an LDP Cabinet Minister on the board . Mutual support in troubled times then , is seen as a reciprocal reward for cooperation over the long term .
Idiom: every last (used idiomatically: yes)
Find something else . Forget all those things your mother told you ! Finishing every last morsel on your plate wo n't make your hair curl or do anything to help the starving children in India . You may decide that you wish to eat less in future and send the money you save to a worthy cause — but it 's far too late to do anything now with that extra roast potato or the last spoonful of pudding . If you have had enough , stop eating .
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: yes)
GRE about - turn after £ 210 m loss GUARDIAN Royal Exchange yesterday revealed the biggest turnaround in its history , recording a £ 3 million taxable profit compared with a £ 210 million pre - tax loss in 1991 . The insurance giant , which is a major employer in Ipswich , said success was achieved by a strong improvement in UK business in the past year . Chief executive Sid Hopkins said the results represented the biggest year - on - year improvement achieved by the group . ' It is testimony to the determined and vigorous actions taken during the past two years .
Idiom: out of the running (used idiomatically: yes)
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Idiom: turn heads (used idiomatically: yes)
In other words , the speaker can read his speech and look out into the audience at the same time . They have a clear view of him and he can hold the important eye contact . The line being spoken is always in the same spot , so that if he turns his head from a familiar sentence he can be confident that he will be able to pick up again where he left off . When you 're reading a speech ordinarily you have either to keep your finger on the spot or find it again . With the autocue , your hands and head are free to communicate body language more powerfully .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
Then Hughes induced me to make that error , and then removed Graeme Hick . Those were telling contributions , but then Merv 's a never - say - die bowler — a captain 's dream . He may not look the fittest man on the field , but he has the biggest heart . He 'll bowl all day and bowl well , as he showed in Manchester . Big Merv is always trying something new .
Idiom: over the moon (used idiomatically: yes)
The eternal pessimist will also be receiving tickets for a future show in Liverpool . And , as a special bonus prize , Rod will be in the audience on Monday evening for a recording of Billy Butler and Wally Scott 's hit Radio Merseyside show , Hold Your Plums . DELIGHTED : Mr Misery Champion Rod is plainly over the moon about his new title P. 1 with tone THE glum look on the face of England Manager Graham Taylor says it all … but he has no intention of quitting .
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: no)
Yo you and him were in the upper . Yeah , and we were prefects then Nick , we had our own rooms , we were n't sleeping in the same bed or anything , you know , Ah but you know you could have just done that little trick , you know . What like you would have done Nick ? No !
Idiom: pull the wool over someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
Gray , a barnstorming centre - forward in his day , is equally fearless as a commentator . If the truth hurts , so be it . ' If the game is poor , I 'm not going to try to pull the wool over anyone 's eyes , ' he vows . Wright 's winner against his old club needed no hyperbole and was arguably THE highlight of a soccer - saturated weekend when Sky 's £ 304 million alliance with the BBC clearly came top of the entertainment stakes , if not the viewing figures . Match of the Day , featuring the smooth Des Lynam and even smoother Alan Hansen , averages 4.32 million viewers for its Premier League highlights and goals package on Saturday nights .
Idiom: on the square (used idiomatically: yes)
60 YEARS AGO V.I.P. INSPECTION … The Earl of Cavan , Colonel - in - Chief of the 2nd Beds . and Herts Regt . inspected the battalion on the Brigade Square at St. Lucia Barracks , Bordon . He then visited Quebec Barracks and saw the new brick buildings there which had only just replaced the old South African war huts . 50 YEARS AGO
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: yes)
The " Bildzeitung " invokes the impression that the Mafia and related organizations increasingly buy banks or bring them under their influence .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: yes)
Oh that 's why it had so much impact , because it really was different on that . By allowing the experiments you get to the next stage . In a group effort , like a publication or a magazine , you know , you do n't have to hold people back , they 'll go all the way . There 's this guy I 'm hoping to see in Paris this week is Vincent Winter who is the designer of Rolling Stone and we worked the best of everybody here off of each other . He really liked my style , but he wanted to push , he wanted to go beyond that .
Idiom: turn heads (used idiomatically: yes)
' When I was talking to him , he had this habit of looking over my head and I wondered whether what I was saying was going in , but he was digesting it and seeing how he could turn it round to his way of doing things . The only thing that made my hair stand on end was when I would say : ' Dive through that window there and , as you go through it , hit it with your fists clenched together , tuck your head down in between on your elbows , get through and , as you go through , go into a roll . ' He would go through it sideways , with one arm out , turning his head to the camera . I would say : ' You 're going to break your neck . ' Then I began to realize why , and he said to me : ' If I go through as you say , viewers ca n't see my face and they 'll think we 're using a double .
Idiom: weather the storm (used idiomatically: no)
We always thought we had a chance if we played well.’ ‘ Some of the youngsters were in awe of Ibrox , but once they settled down we went on to dominate the second - half.’ Ironically the champions had apparently weathered the storm after falling behind to a Mark Roberts diving header on the hour mark . Twelve minutes later Steven Pressley grabbed a scrappy equaliser which seemed to end any prospect of an upset . Even before kick - off Rangers got the afternoon off to an unexpected start .
Idiom: come clean (used idiomatically: yes)
He gave his name as Robin Ganguly , his twin brother . Peter Armstrong , defending , said Ganguly had pretended to be his brother because he was already facing a charge of driving with excess alcohol and did not want to be remanded in custody . Mr Armstrong said : ‘ It was as a result of this defendant coming clean that these proceedings were brought . Had he not done so , the probability is the probation order would have run for six months and no one would have been any the wiser.’ ACTION is underway to try to curb the ‘ horrendous’ accident records on Middlesbrough roads .
Idiom: on the button (used idiomatically: yes)
Click on the chat icon . Slide your finger on any of the highlighted conversations . Click on the red ' Exclude ' button to close the Facebook conversation .
Idiom: bar none (used idiomatically: yes)
I should n't say this , because you 'll just get swollen headed . That was the best fuck of my life . Bar none . ' Rory lay down on his back , the carpet pricking him rather pleasantly , content not to reply , not believing her , not caring . They lay entangled , breath slowing down , slippy limbs entwined .
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: yes)
Ian Osborne is the master of time — the way he sprints for the door at 5.30pm has to be seen to be believed ! Makes him a dead ringer for Millenium Warriors methinks … Prince Kronos , first - born son of the Great Galactic Emperor Iridon I , has come of age . According to ancient Iridani law he must undergo a test of courage and skill , overcoming earth warriors in five different aeons . These comprise three beat-'em up levels and two blasters , each played on a single static screen .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: yes)
NAKED BIRDS ‘ ' E was weird , ' im,’ recalls Rolling Stone BILL WYMAN of The Rolling Stones , in his autobiography , I'M In The Rolling Stones , Me . ‘ We 'd go to all these really swinging parties with all these naked birds all over the place , all covered in drugs , and then this geezer in an acrylic suit would walk in . ‘ ' E would n't talk to anyone . ' E just stood there , all miserable , drinking tap water from a plastic cup . I felt a bit sorry for ' i m once , so I sent ' i m over a bird but ' e were n't ' aving none of it .
Idiom: make a meal of (used idiomatically: yes)
Well I , I 'm having some difficulty in keeping my remarks addressed to question A and not drifting into question B because obviously Leeds City Council and perhaps speaking for the rest of West Yorkshire 's concerned about regeneration effects . Is that as far as you can take us on your interpretation of what those implications are ? I do n't want to l , Dave Girt , Leeds City , I do n't want to make a meal of it , I mean the the theme of R P G two is about revitalizing Yeah . Yeah .
Idiom: run someone ragged (used idiomatically: yes)
Peterborough played extremely well , though nervous tension affected our game in th e first half.’ Peterborough manager Chris Turner said : ‘ We could not have played better than we did tonight . For 20 minutes Middlesbrough ran us ragged . They must have crossed 1,000 balls in the first half hour . Yet we defended well and had the best first - half chance .
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
Pollen evidence shows that even in the Amazon basin , maize was being grown some 6000 years BP and that there was forest clearance a thousand or possibly three thousand years ago at Lake Victoria in Central Africa . It must be remembered , though , that the majority of modern African forest dwellers are secondary invaders with knowledge of agriculture and iron tools , and may have been there only some 2000 years . The form of farming known as shifting cultivation has gone hand - in - hand with the clearances in New Guinea over , at least , the last 5000 years . As with the clearance of the forest of the British Isles since the last glaciation , those areas with the ‘ least resistance’ , i.e. with shallow dry soils , have been cleared first . In such places regeneration is slowest , as can be seen from those areas of dry monsoon forest , long cleared away in East Java or around Angkor in Kampuchea .
Idiom: make history (used idiomatically: yes)
Most people kept their papers in tobacco tins ; one man kept his in a biscuit tin , and one shaikh stored his in an old suitcase . But most sources were oral : a man knew what he knew chiefly because his father or grandfather had told him . And when he made history , he did so by speaking , mostly for members of his own line and for close collaterals . Sometimes old men sat together and talked about history and genealogy , presenting history to fellow - producers , and discussion could be lively . But for the most part people recited their descent and their poems , recounted old events , in the company of people who wanted to be told who their ancestors were , what they did , what heroisms they accomplished .
Idiom: take it or leave it (used idiomatically: yes)
Television chiefs from the BBC , ITN and BSkyB , partly owned by News International which also publishes TODAY , have all lodged complaints that the deal will cost them a total of £ 4,500 . Cameraman Phillip Bonham - Carter , a favourite of the Queen , stands to make up to Pounds 100,000 from repeat fees and payments from foreign news organisations each time the shots are shown . Buckingham Palace bosses , who describe the deal as a ‘ private arrangement between the Princess Royal , Commander Laurence and the cameraman’ , have told the TV stations to ‘ take it or leave it’ . A source at ITN said : ‘ The whole thing is outrageous . Each one of the TV companies would have done it for free and pooled the material .
Idiom: on the same page (used idiomatically: yes)
He added , at p. 230 : ‘ Indeed , the elaborate statutory provisions in various Finance Acts regarding the precise circumstances in which income tax already paid may be reclaimed would have been quite unnecessary if the conclusion sought to be drawn by the corporation were sound . The second reason he expressed thus , on the same page : ‘ It would , in my opinion , introduce an element of quite unwarrantable uncertainty into the relations between the taxpayers and the Exchequer if there could be a wholesale opening up of transactions between them whenever any court put a new interpretation upon an existing statutory provision imposing a tax . The second ground for recovery was based on the condictio indebiti .
Idiom: by the book (used idiomatically: yes)
I 'll see to those magazines . ' They went into the back room . It was crammed with boxes and piled by books . Letters overspilled a tray and the old typewriter squatted among the coffee things . Over a radiator hung three pairs of Denise 's tights , long dry .
Idiom: nuts and bolts (used idiomatically: yes)
Price : £ 25 from diy and hardware stores . RIVETING TALE Household and garden equipment is often difficult to repair with nuts and bolts , but a riveter can make a strong , neat repair to metal , leather and plastics . Stanley Tools Riveter uses steel and aluminium rivets of various lengths for different materials . Price : £ 9.14 ( Model MR22 ) from diy stores .
Idiom: on the horns of a dilemma (used idiomatically: yes)
Never before had he capitulated . That he was prepared to do so to retain his position was , in itself , a sign of changing times . By the beginning of 1957 Franco found himself on the horns of a dilemma : both change and immobilism implied a high degree of risk for his continuation in power . The basic problem was that the switch from autarchy to internationalism had not been fully effected : a free - market economy could not exist as long as its component parts — especially investment , supply of raw materials , and the purchasing power of the domestic market — were still closely controlled by the state . The result was that the economy was in the grip of a crisis which could only be resolved by adopting measures to free it from the constraints of autarchy .
Idiom: song and dance (used idiomatically: no)
SIX years ago Liza Minnelli got sick and tired , as she puts it , of being sick and tired . Drink and drugs were threatening to turn her life into a repeat performance of that of her mother , Judy Garland . But Liza ( with a ' Z ' ) kicked the bad habits today her only addictions are cigarettes and caffeine and gets back into the old song - and - dance routine for Stepping Out , released on CIC Video on March 20 . She stars as tap teacher Mavis Turner , a chorus line dancer who never quite made it , in a screen version of the hit Richard Harris play among the motley crew of would be tap dancers at a church hall evening class . Director Lewis Gilbert has already had considerable success transferring stage plays including Alfie , Shirley Valentine and Educating Rita to the big screen .
Idiom: turn the corner (used idiomatically: yes)
Her view of the driver of the Renault , albeit only a back view , had shown her the thick dark hair of someone obviously quite young . She was relieved when Nigel had to slow down as they reached the outskirts of Cheltenham . He turned a corner into a wide road edged with large detached houses , then drove along a broad lane , at the end of which was a wide circular drive , and at the top an imposing Georgian house . Juliet drew in her breath as she gazed at it . She had always imagined Nigel 's home to be large , but this was immense !
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
The reader may wish to make a choice between the two books — neither easy to read . Comparison is difficult , but McClellan 's approach still seems the more deeply considered , and at the same time the more straightforward . Houghton places greatest stress upon achieving the maximum number of issues per book added to stock , rather than on achieving subject coverage on the shelves . His statement —‘A lending library after all is only a means of delivering a commodity to consumers in pretty much the same sort of way as a supermarket . So it should be governed by the same economic laws of supply and demand’— whilst in one sense salutary , may strike a chilling note to those who believe in the public library 's responsibilities for satisfying minority tastes .
Idiom: round the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
Adrian Westbury had spent 5 years building up his flock . He started with just 4 lambs , and one of the ewes that drowned was one of those original lambs . Now Adrian is keeping a round the clock watch for the dog in case it returns . Staff at a centre for birds of prey are being kept busy feeding two new arrivals — baby fish eagles . It 's thought to be the first time the species has been bred in captivity .