Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: hit the jackpot (used idiomatically: yes)
ROBSON : No deal TOUR BOOM GREAT BRITAIN hit the jackpot on this summer 's Rugby League trip to Papua - New Guinea , Australia and New Zealand . Mal Reilly 's squad pulled in record tour profits from their 17-match programme of £ 233,645 , more than double the previous best of £ 93,282 in 1974 . League spokesman David Howes said : ‘ Our planning of a streamlined , higher profile tour certainly paid off and has set the pattern for future trips.’
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
Stand with your legs and feet a I comfortable distance apart . Place both hands on your hips . Raise your right arm up in the air close to your head , then place back on your hip , repeat with your left arm . Ski down those slopes : With toes facing the front , raise both arms above your head . Bend your legs at the knees and swoop your arms down and behind your bottom , in one movement .
Idiom: take it easy (used idiomatically: yes)
You know it . What 's going to happen to me now ? Ssh — take it easy , take it easy —‘control’ , remember ? OK , so you swallowed a spider — ; Not just a spider , you bastard —
Idiom: neither here nor there (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I think I prefer you drunk,’ Sandison said . ‘ Do you now . Well , I think I do too but that 's neither here nor there.’ ‘ Are you coming?’ ‘ What?’
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: yes)
I 'm a married man — I 've got responsibilities . You know what I mean , Bob?’ ‘ Yes,’ said Bob , remembering from his childhood just how much it hurt to be punched on the nose . ‘ The point being that while Dad 's out earning the housekeeping , certain things could conceivably be occurring behind his back . I 'm not saying they do .
Idiom: rise through the ranks (used idiomatically: yes)
He said : ‘ Every second week I would spend on tour in the country travelling by landrover , bicycle or canoe . I even canoed and walked along the route taken by David Livingstone.’ David rose through the ranks from education officer to acting director of technical education during his years in Northern Rhodesia , but some years after the country gained independence he made the decision to leave . David came back to Scotland in 1968 to take up a post as an assistant to the director of education with the City of Edinburgh Corporation . He was later promoted to depute director and within six years of his return , he found himself director of the newly - created Lothian Regional Council 's Education Department .
Idiom: get the better of (used idiomatically: yes)
I think Theresa was first . Mhm . Yes , in that sense , in that sense , the unconscious thought was expressed but the , but the point was , i the anxiety as it were got the better of the dream , did n't it , if you woke up ? Because ideally if , if , if a dream was really gon na work it would disguise the anxiety under some reassuring manifest content that would stop you feeling anxious and therefore waking , would n't it ? Yes , this , this kind of thing happens to people who 've been in traumatic situations , like erm er prisoner of war camps , severe accidents and stuff like that , and Freud himself of course saw quite a lot of these cases after the First World War .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
The analytic problem , for competition policy , is that these strategies involve both welfare gains and losses . Thus lower costs and prices arising from R&D or physical investment are beneficial : the loss is that prices might have been even lower had entry not been deterred . Similarly , an increase in the number of brands on offer may be a consumer gain , even though it reduces the probability of new suppliers entering the market in the long run . If we take the robust view that it is long run competition which is important , and therefore entry - deterring strategies are to be frowned upon , there is the considerable difficulty of distinguishing ‘ innocent’ from ‘ strategic’behaviour . A firm which innocently seeks to lower costs and improve product quality may simultaneously be making it harder for entry to occur .
Idiom: turn a blind eye (used idiomatically: yes)
Otherwise people would not do it . If underground outfits had to go legal many of them would go bust , their profitability often lying in their clandestine nature . So why not turn a blind eye to it in a world dogged by unemployment ? But you have to look at just what is being established here . Sweated labour forces down the wages of all workers , whether underground or legal .
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: yes)
Dichotic studies with non - verbal stimuli Papcun , Krashen , Terbeek , Remington and Harshman ( 1974 ) presented short Morse code sequences to naive and experienced Morse operators and found a significant right ear advantage in both groups of subjects . This suggests that the meaning of the stimuli was irrelevant to the asymmetry between left and right ears . However , longer Morse sequences yielded an advantage for the left ear , but only for the experienced operators . It was suggested that they were able to switch to using a more " holistic " processing mode which is the preferred mode of operation of the right hemisphere .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
I know you can do better because I 've heard you do it.’ ‘ But it was really hard to deal with sometimes , especially when I got the thumbs down on something I really believed in and did n't want to change . In those instances I 'd force myself and in the long run it turned out better . I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . The great thing about Dave and Max being such perfectionists is that when they were both pleased with something I 'd figure , ‘ Hey , I must be doing something really right here!’
Idiom: mean business (used idiomatically: no)
0402.2 Investment business — definition The FSA defines certain activities as investment business . Investment business is defined in paragraph 1(2 ) of FSA as meaning the business of engaging in one or more of the activities which fall within the paragraphs in Part II of Schedule 1 of FSA ( ' Investment Business ' ) and which are not specifically excluded by Part III of Schedule 1 ( ' Excluded Activities ' ) . In all the above cases , investment business is undertaken even if the firm does not make a recommendation . In summary , investment business comprises :
Idiom: tie the knot (used idiomatically: yes)
7 Join in yellow wool . Tie a knot with end of the pink wool and the beginning of the yellow wool . HAT 8
Idiom: know no bounds (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ What you mean,’ said Camille , after a moment 's thought , ‘ is , everyone drinks Coca - Cola and we 'll have world peace.’ ‘ That would be over - naive,’ said Brian , ‘ but there is a broad substratum of truth in it . Advertising is essentially democratic , knowing no bounds of class or colour and crossing all frontiers.’ ‘ I was going to say art and commercialism were mutually exclusive,’ said Camille grandly . She had asked Tim for his advice and thoughts on the matter , since Tim was undergoing a good education .
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
Cotton Lane had a corner shop which was a favourite eating - place of the rivermen and horse and motor drivers . The premises had recently been painted in a garish olive green and over the shopfront large gilt lettering announced it as ' Bradley 's Dining Rooms ' . All day long the murky weather had held over the River Thames and as night closed in the February fog swirled out into the narrow cobbled lanes and backstreets of Bermondsey . It was more than an hour since the last of the horsecarts had clattered through Cotton Lane and now the fog was thickening . The sound of heavy boots in the street below faded and Carrie Bradley stretched out her stockinged feet towards the coke fire and yawned .
Idiom: fast and furious (used idiomatically: yes)
If we would come with him to the great hall , he would listen to all sides of the argument and then draw his conclusions . It was here that the performance abandoned all semblance of script , but was nonetheless skilfully held together by the actors , who guided without being intrusive and did not for a moment step out of their roles . The debate was fast and furious , with the city workers fighting for better conditions in the factories being strongly supported by the philanthropists , who themselves were trying to preserve the landscape . On the other hand , the local servants wanted the jobs the quarry could provide , while the industrialists argued for progress . Confronted by all four points of view , as well as many grey areas in between , the children were having to think and argue for themselves .
Idiom: sign of the times (used idiomatically: yes)
An enthusiastic Mr Santos claims that , of all the developing countries , Colombia will soon be the ‘ best positioned , commercially’ . Hyperbole , of course . But it is a sign of the times that a Latin American minister even wishes to make such a boast . Whether the region 's liking for liberal trade will last remains to be seen . One reason to think it may is that the new agreements have turned national tariff - cutting programmes into international commitments .
Idiom: walk the plank (used idiomatically: yes)
YO HO HO me hearties ! You 'll need more than a bottle of rum to get through this disaster of a voyage ! Whoever was the ‘ brains ’ behind CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS : THE DISCOVERY ( Cert 15 ; General ) should be made to walk the plank . Not wildly entertaining , but with unintentionally wildly funny moments , this recollection of the first crossing of the Atlantic by Christopher Columbus 500 years ago , is more round the bend than round the world . Columbus is played by unknown George Corraface , a handsome young thing in the time-honoured , clean-cut movie mould .
Idiom: game on (used idiomatically: yes)
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Idiom: go from strength to strength (used idiomatically: yes)
Cost cutting went on and as I say will continue in ninety three and ninety four . Circulation just about held its own in U K , but was up six point three percent in Europe and is now one hundred and thirteen thousand five hundred and the electronic publishing was up eighty one percent . There 's Echo There 's Echo goes from strength to strength to the extent that one of its competitors , the main competitor , Tribune del Expansione was obliged to merge with Lacoude Francais I mentioned earlier that Ensure was re - launched and er it achieved a circulation of a hundred and five thousand . In circulation of Les Ecca was up four percent year on year . The Economist circulation is now five hundred and twenty five thousand each week , and although their er year is out of sync with ours , I expect the profits for the year to be at or near record levels once again .
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
First , the external conditions were extremely unfavourable , given the record trade deficit generated by the ‘ Barber boom’ and added to by the subsequent massive rise in oil prices . The trade deficit had to be either financed or reduced : the former course meant courting the international financial institutions with their implicit or explicit power of veto over domestic policy , while the latter meant either fiscal deflation in excess of the deflation of demand already induced by the OPEC financial surplus ( in paradoxical combination with cost - inflation ) or setting up stringent import controls . Since import controls on the necessary scale were regarded as out of the question , a precarious combination of international borrowing and expenditure - restriction was embarked upon . Second , also connected with the dual impetus of the Tory boom and the oil - price rise , inflation was accelerating rapidly over 1974–75 . The ‘ threshold payments’ scheme introduced under Heath before the oil - price rise — a scheme supported by the then Labour opposition — was tending to generate a runaway wage - price spiral , but since prices were to some extent constrained by continuing state controls there was also a severe squeeze on company liquidity , with its threat to employment .
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: yes)
It was on his back , between his shoulder blades . The Chinese man had wanted to do a Celtic torque in plain black , very fashionable at the time , but Jasper 's wish was for something less austere . He chose a lion done in tawny red , prowling among turquoise palm trees and blue and purple flowers . He could only see it himself by standing with his back to one mirror and looking in another . He was very interested in discovering whether the tattoo would grow as he grew and he thought he already detected some enlargement .
Idiom: make the cut (used idiomatically: yes)
Of the 25 tournaments Todd played , he missed the cut in 23 . He made the cut in the Phoenix Open , by a stroke , and eventually finished tied for 70th , which earned him $ 1,773 . He also made the cut in the Deposit Guaranty Classic , which is a ‘ grabbing’ tournament played opposite The Masters in which it is nigh impossible to miss the cut . Todd was six strokes off the lead at the half - way mark , but promptly shot a 77 in the third round and eventually finished 71st , earning $ 594 . Those two cheques accounted for Todd finishing 265th on the money list , lower than anyone else who played a full schedule .
Idiom: through thick and thin (used idiomatically: yes)
the — not found in Japlish . ‘ S’ is used in its place . ‘ I 'll stick with you through thick and thin ' ( English ) . ‘ I 'll stick with you through sick and sin’(Japlish ) . l and r — Japanese does n't have an ‘ l’ sound ; it just has a slightly l - ish ‘ r’ .
Idiom: get a move on (used idiomatically: yes)
A huge purple bruise was stretched tight and shiny over her left cheek - bone . ‘ Meal for the young lady!’ bellowed Moreau . ‘ And get a move on.’ Frau Zimmerman duly departed to give orders to the cook . ‘ Oh , no , really , I could n't manage … ’
Idiom: see eye to eye (used idiomatically: yes)
Instantly the female stopped too , so that both birds came to a halt like toys whose batteries have run down . It seemed the end . Relationships were just too difficult , the sexes would never see eye to eye , it was all too much bother . Something essential had broken down and next year there would n't be any pigeons . Then , just as suddenly as he had stopped , the male was off again , perking up his feathers and hopping after his mate with a meaningful glint in his beady eyes .
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: yes)
but everybody thinks that it 's gon na be easy Yeah because they think they 're going to get more , do n't they ? Or they thought they were and the only people they 're going to get any more from is the parents , nowhere else , nobody else is going to give them anything I 've got no illusions about it , I do n't expect you to get anything from anywhere else , and I know that you , you would n't get anything from anywhere else because they , they 've cut it , they 've cut it to the bone and the only people that can afford to go now and to live in anything like A decent Yeah , is people who have got rich parents .
Idiom: cut a dash (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ This will help to redress the balance and bring them back to a positive situation . Every little helps , ’ he added . Brave mower men cut a dash for wet spring Cathy Gunn IN this season of New Year forecasts — which mostly come unstuck — they are praying for rain in 1993 in Stowmarket , Suffolk .
Idiom: talk shop (used idiomatically: yes)
In what Margaret Ashby calls ‘ this street - and - smithy parliament’ every contemporary problem was discussed and lessons in human nature could be absorbed . Above all the farm worker could establish his reputation as a skilled and knowledgeable craftsman among his fellow workers . They would incessantly ‘ talk shop’ , for example , especially in that important semi - public arena — the village pub . As George Ewart Evans documents in his book Where Beards Wag All , it was also common to see groups of workers strolling around the parish on Sunday mornings examining each other 's work , with much chafing and leg - pulling about their respective capabilities en route . He cites the recollections of James Seeley , an ex - horseman from Norfolk :
Idiom: down the drain (used idiomatically: no)
Miss Forsythe said : ‘ Mayhem and destruction was caused in that department . Someone went berserk in there.’ She said years of research had effectively been ‘ poured down the drain’ . A cleaner disturbed Williams who by this time was wearing a researcher 's white coat complete with name tag , the court heard . He insisted he had permission to be there — a story he repeated to police .
Idiom: by the book (used idiomatically: no)
Maybe I will get offers to do weddings and bar mitzvahs . They would all be gratefully received . ’ Mr Winner , most of whose efforts with the camera thus far have been studies of his girlfriend , actress Jenny Seagrove , was paid £200 by the book 's publishers for his Gielgud picture . Sir John 's voice , meanwhile , is currently being heard in a stage version of Charles Dickens 's A Christmas Carol which opened in Los Angeles yesterday . He has recorded the narration for the production .
Idiom: down the drain (used idiomatically: yes)
Rumour has it that episodes of Coronation St. are to be shown in Russia … Coronation Prospekt Soviet culture is slipping down the drain Percy Sugden 's been at the vodka and he 's complaining yet again Dostoyevski 's been overthrown by devious Dirty Den
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: no)
Noise / horror strikes me as a limited form of self - destruction , that can only yield diminishing returns . Compare its claustrophobic confines and concealed machismo with the open spaces and fragility of the new psychedelia , as signposted by A.R. Kane 's ' When You 're Sad ' , Husker Du 's ' Up in the Air ' , Meat Puppets ' ' Two Rivers ' , Saqqara Dogs ' ' Greenwich Mean Time ' … FROST IN MUSIC Both ' strategies ' are alike in one thing — they demand from the listener an immobility — one stunned , the other spellbound .
Idiom: on someone's mind (used idiomatically: yes)
In the following chapter you will find some practical ways of helping this process still further . Improving Your Mental Ability By now you should have discovered whether you are predominantly left or right - brained , thought about developing your creativity and learned about the influences on your mind and how to quieten it . Now it is time to go on and find out how you can increase your mental efficiency . This process is not as daunting as it might sound .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: no)
This first critique of structuralism thus concerns the subject and not the object of sociological investigation . It is of enormous importance to Bourdieu , as evidenced in the considerable work involved in Homo Academicus , his recent articles on the Grandes Ecoles , and his work in general on the school system and the intellectual field . That is , in his work concerning modern society , the major critique of structuralism is not so much one of the relative weights of structure versus agency in the social world , but regarding the absence of objectivity , free - floatingness , transcendence in scientific and intellectual work . Seen in the perspective of free will versus determinism , this means paradoxically that scientists , intellectuals , and artists have less and not more free will than on the structuralist model . That is , we are only producers in an economy of symbolic goods like any others .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
He should read the treaty : we are part of all the decisions on economic and monetary union , with the additional point that , unlike our European Community partners , we have the choice , when the decision is made , whether to go into stage 3 . It is a choice for the House whether we go in or stay out . That choice is best made in the light of the conditions that prevail at the time . Several Hon . Members rose Mr. Speaker
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: yes)
There 's no preservation . So and er we got there fairly early , cos the taxi well the taxi man got lost , that 's another story . The taxi man got lost in Manchester . Anyway we got , we got there in time Oh no wonder he wanted you to set off early .
Idiom: on the back of (used idiomatically: yes)
The EU has had little to say , for example , about what kind of governance rules and standards should guide debates over the much - needed rebalancing between surplus and deficit states . Instead , each member state has grabbed whatever measure of flexibility assists its own immediate economic recovery . Growth will no longer be generated from the West on the back of emerging - economy surpluses , but will need to come from within the emerging world itself , which should be nudged away from purely export - oriented economic policies . But EU influence over Chinese revaluation has been zero .
Idiom: Indian summer (used idiomatically: yes)
Promise me you 'll do something tomorrow ? You 've got to take your mind off this horrible business somehow and it 's a sin to waste this glorious weather.’ Deeside was enjoying an Indian summer of mild , windless days and skies piled with white cumulus . Behind the trees the late afternoon sky was growing pale towards the horizon and taking on a pellucid apricot tint . ‘ There 's nothing I feel like doing,’ he persisted .
Idiom: in no uncertain terms (used idiomatically: yes)
My farmers are very responsible about this , they do n't want counter demonstrations against the French here ; they certainly do n't want a tax on French lorry drivers here , we 've had one or two of those . Er . They want the thing to be sorted out properly in Brussels and they want the French authorities to be told in no uncertain terms that it 's their job to control the activities of their farmers . It 's a quarter past six . The Southern American city of Atlanta has been chosen as the venue for the 1996 Olympic Games .
Idiom: take a bath (used idiomatically: yes)
Bronwen reported the next day that Owen had slept deeply for about six hours , and for the first time in ages had not woken up several times during the night to go to the toilet . Owen received aromatherapy massage weekly for about three months . He also took a nightly bath containing lavender , clary - sage or chamomile — sometimes a blend of all three essences . I prescribed the Bach Flower Remedies ( completely harmless ' vibrational ' remedies , see page 121 ) to help transmute his sometimes angry and violent behaviour into positive energy . His parents half - heartedly attempted to implement the HACSG diet and applied evening primrose oil to Owen 's skin ( as recommended by the HACSG ) .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: yes)
You spoken to her?at the school . Have you been ? I got slightly lost . Well I went dow back down the Road cos there was a traffic jam and er I sort of went down oh sorry mate went down a road like which I thought was a good short cut , and they 've got a lot of these roads and they 've put like pavements across the end of them with bollards , and I went back and then there was a traffic jam and I got stuck because they were unloading a lorry so I 've been er basically pissed about . Yeah she a bit now ai n't she ?
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
And they are a great enhancer of shelf - life . Put them into a product and you can take out most of the preservatives.’ Raisins were first included in American cookies only six years ago , but the idea has caught on with a vengeance . ‘ People from the UK are astounded when they walk down a cookie aisle in the US , as it may be 60 feet long . Not all contain raisins , but a great deal do,’ said a marketing mogul .