Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: read between the lines (used idiomatically: yes)
He had failed to gain a scholarship to St. Paul 's and one assumes that his father decided that his son 's lack of ambition and apparent aimlessness about a career did not justify the money spent on a schooling that should naturally lead to Oxford or Cambridge , and thereafter to the Civil Service . After fifteen months Edward left St. Paul 's on the tacit understanding that he would read at home for the competitive administration examinations of the Civil Service . Edward Thomas 's own narrative of his public - school days is substantiated by memoirs collected in the late 1940s by Rowland Watson and partially supported by reading between the lines of the ‘ Fiction’ which Thomas abandoned in 1914 . In 1945 , Lucian Oldershaw , with E. C. Bentley a member of the History Eighth at St Paul 's when it was first created in July 1893 , recalled Thomas at school and during his early days at Oxford : Thomas was two years younger than I and I never met him till the year I left St. Paul 's School ( 1894 ) .
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
Storming Le Mort Homme ' , depicted the Kaiser and the Crown Prince flogging German soldiers on into the arms of Death . By the end of March the totals had reached 81,607 Germans to 89,000 French . Compressed as the battle arena had become , losses suffered among the senior commanders were every bit as grievous as among the rank - and - file ; in one French division , three out of four full colonels were killed during the mid - March fighting . On the Left Bank the Germans began to find themselves at an increasing tactical disadvantage . Gone were the woods and broken country where their infiltration methods could excel .
Idiom: go through the motions (used idiomatically: yes)
Lesson II : Repackage , reissue , reiterate . Exhume the wormy corpse of the Sex Pistols . Shit on their memory and we 'll go through the motions . Anarchy in the Wembley Arena ? Viciousburgers on sale in the foyer … now .
Idiom: come to think of it (used idiomatically: yes)
It was her brother . Immediately the smug features reassembled themselves in his imagination and took on the friendly demeanour of an irrelevant sibling . Come to think of it , he 'd seemed rather a decent chap , someone it might be worth getting to know . Same college tie as his own , too . They were bound to have things in common , even if the difference in age made it unlikely that they 'd have overlapped at university .
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: yes)
Despite the recession , which my right hon . Friend the Chancellor made clear is coming to an end , our national wealth is 23 per cent . up on 1979 , and business investment is up 27 per cent . As my right hon . Friend the Chancellor said , there was a massive increase in business investment in the three years up to 1989 . Currently , business investment accounts for a higher proportion of GDP than at any time in the 1970s and early 1980s . Business investment remains high , and the latest CBI survey reported a sharp improvement in manufacturers ' investment intentions .
Idiom: fall from grace (used idiomatically: yes)
Reception at the House , all very grand and smart . And awfully good for her business , too.’ McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . Prodding gently , he got Francesca to run through the substance of the lunch - time conversation . It was clear that Miss Morgan 's brain had been fully engaged on what she was doing , which was pushing a client 's interest , and that such attention as she could spare from that had been centred on her forthcoming marriage .
Idiom: with a view to (used idiomatically: yes)
Brighton 's reserve striker Martin Lambert has joined Wycombe Wanderers for £ 15,000 , and the GM Vauxhall Conference club 's manager Jim Kelman has also made an offer for Aldershot 's unsettled midfielder Glen Burvill . Colin Morris , sacked by Scarborough , is to play for Boston United on a non - contract basis . Watford 's reserve goalkeeper Mel Rees has joined Southampton on a month 's loan with a view to a permanent transfer . Blackpool must pay £ 35,000 for Nigel Hawkins , the 21-year - old striker signed from Bristol City , if he becomes a first - team regular at Bloomfield Road . Blackpool , who offered just £ 2,000 against City 's valuation of £ 70,000 , will also have to hand over 25 per cent of any profit on a subsequent transfer .
Idiom: throw a wobbly (used idiomatically: yes)
SHE PERFORMANCE Strangers in the night If your marriage is on the rocks , the thing to do is throw a wobbly on a motorway at night so that your husband will put you out at the next lay - by . There you will meet a tall , rugged stranger taking his car engine to bits with no hope of reassembling it . It is raining and he is hostile but beauty always moves the goal - posts ; no sooner has he said , ‘ Go away .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: yes)
But McGibbon senior insists : ‘ Our Pat is only on the bottom rung of the ladder . ‘ We 're all chuffed about Billy Bingham calling him up . But he 's a long way to go before I 'd consider him a success . ‘ He 's been lucky so far . Some great people have helped him .
Idiom: play ball (used idiomatically: yes)
What was encouraging was the way we played — the best I 've seen them this term ( although I 've only seen 4 matches ) . Our midfield was excellent ( except Hodge — who worked hard but never really got into it ) with ( perhaps too much ) lovely passing footy . Macca kept playing brilliant balls to the wings , especially to Wallace and Kelly ( who improves every game , is bionic and will be a star ) . The most worrying thing was Deane , he did n't click at all . He was n't even getting headers .
Idiom: put a foot wrong (used idiomatically: yes)
I was invariably out first throw . So when we arrived hopefully at Loch Hope that morning , I was on my best behaviour . Determined not to put a foot wrong , let alone go in over the top , as I sometimes do . I asked Alan to fish the first drift , in order to settle down , and towards the end he suggested that I put up the dap . My heart sank .
Idiom: out of order (used idiomatically: yes)
Yet in being forced to come to the Commons to tidy up the mess — though splattering egg on the faces of the Foreign Office lawyers and his colleague Tristan Garel - Jones in the process — Hurd confirmed what a few MPs have known for months . The constitutional position of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill has been clear from the outset . It does not ratify the Maastricht Treaty and any political discussion about whether it should or not is out of order . As deputy Speaker Michael Morris told MPs at the first sitting of the line - by - line committee stage in January : ‘ I must emphasise that this bill does not ratify the treaty ; it makes changes in domestic law consequential upon the treaty.’ Ratification of treaties is the prerogative of the executive , and the formalities are concluded by the Queen on advice from her ministers .
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: yes)
She sustained an injury to her hip which prevented her from caring for her husband when he was at home . That disability distressed her and McCullough J took such distress into account in assessing damages for her injuries . Similarly , in Jefferson v Cape Insulation Ltd ( 3 December 1981 ) Farquharson J awarded substantial damages to a woman who knew she must soon die of mesothelioma for her evident distress in being parted from her family : per Farquharson J : I have also to bear in mind … that the major misery this woman is going to sustain is not the pain , serious and terrible as that is , but the prospect which must be continually in her mind of being parted from her family , and particularly her youngest child . 3.12 In considering pain and suffering shock should be taken into account . Per Sachs LJ in Kaufman v Ocean Steamship Co ( a decision of the Court of Appeal in 1969 ) :
Idiom: back to square one (used idiomatically: yes)
Male speaker For 80 to 90 percent of the time things go well . Unfortunately if things go wrong we go back to square one . There 's room for improvement . We have teething problems to sort out .
Idiom: rise from the ashes (used idiomatically: yes)
' There was a time , ' she read , ' when the acclaim of both the public and his fellow artists was a common thing for Mr Michael Swinton . For the last decade , such accolades have been heard more rarely since Mr Swinton chose a hermit 's life in the West Country and no paintings of his have come before the Selection Committee at the Royal Academy since he left London . This year , the phoenix has risen from its ashes , a phoenix in brighter plumage than he has ever worn before . However much we may lament Mr Swinton 's recent seclusion , we are forced to conclude that it has done him nothing but good . ' A. in Reverie is by far the best painting to come from Mr Swinton 's brush .
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's a sad grey prefab , put up some 20 years ago as a temporary measure and still servicing the needs of this economically depressed small town some 62 km north of Paris . The 825 youngsters who attend the school are mainly children of immigrants of over 25 different nationalities . Today the school finds itself in the midst of a public debate which is shaking the foundations of French politics — some say ethics — has split Mitterand 's Socialist Party down the middle and has put the questions of immigration and integration back on the agenda with a vengeance . Mr Cheniere , the school 's headmaster , is a practising Catholic of Martinican origin , a freemason whose authoritarian methods do not endear him to his students . He is adamant that any open manifestation of religious or cultural identity at school goes against the principles of secular state education .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Had he been unfeeling in handing back the bowler 's sweater less than gently ( but by no means callously ) after an over full of backchat by the bowler and his captain ? Had the earlier turf - level ‘ catch’ by Inzamam - ul - Haq off Gower been wrongly disallowed ? Had the umpires gone too far in referring wear marks on the ball to the match referee during the luncheon interval ? The Pakistanis seemed to find the answers to all these questions a vehement ‘ yes’ . It has been said that Englishmen have a paranoid suspicion of Oriental cunning , but it was becoming more apparent with every passing day that Javed Miandad and his team were just as concerned about the probity of their hosts .
Idiom: see the light (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Civilization!’ somebody shouted . It looked very small . Jezrael could still see the lights of sunflowers strung out like mercury on rose satin . The land around was crumpled with shadow valleys , a corduroy of fields . Greenhouse roofs rippled from salmon to garnet with the cold winds of sunset .
Idiom: round the bend (used idiomatically: yes)
The first time , he 'd been virtually on their tail as he 'd rounded a bend . Desperate not to have to overtake , he 'd braked hard and had felt the car shimmy dangerously . The second time , travelling fast to find them , he 'd passed a junction just in time to see the VW rounding a bend on the other road . He had overshot by fifty yards but , since there was no room to turn , he 'd backed up to the junction in a rapid , snaky line , and picked them up again after ten minutes of anxious - cautious driving — fast on the straights , slow on the bends . Although the traffic was n't heavy , there was a string of other cars on the road .
Idiom: go with the flow (used idiomatically: yes)
I am listening to the whispers . I am radiant with love and joy . I am going with the flow . Today will be full of exciting opportunities . I accept the power of this present moment .
Idiom: charity begins at home (used idiomatically: yes)
She recorded her impressions of Dovercourt in 1941 when she was still only fourteen . For the first time in its history , Dovercourt was news . Though some newspapers like the Mail and the Express harped on the theme of ‘ charity begins at home’ , the general line was to stress the potential benefits of taking in such ‘ lively , sturdily - built and intelligent’ children . Picture Post thought the young refugees would be a credit to Britain : What their parents would have made of this is another matter .
Idiom: fall on deaf ears (used idiomatically: yes)
How far , indeed , do you think I would get alone ? Believe whatever you like of me , but please —’ Her assurances fell on deaf ears . Not giving her a chance to finish , fitzAlan 's good arm shot out and snagged Isabel about the waist . She was lifted against his bare chest as if she weighed no more than a feather , the shock of his warm skin and the slight roughness of short , curling hair against her palms rendering her abruptly speechless .
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
She draws out the ‘ oo’ sound in the word . Clare is a tall , auburn girl with striking angular looks she shares with her brother , but whereas Andy is — at the moment — bulkily fit - looking and tanned , Clare is just thin , and luminously pale . I reckon she 's overly keen on coke and spends too much time in clubs , but maybe I 'm just jealous ; my cub - reporter status on the Caley and the triumph - of - miniaturisation salary that goes with it make habits that expensive out of the question . Clare has always had rather more in the way of aristocratic pretensions than Andy , who has that aura of classless broth - of - a - boyhood that usually only the congenitally rich can carry off convincingly . Clare works for an estate agent so far up - market it 's mostly estates they deal in , not humble houses , no matter how extensive ; if it does n't boast a couple of salmon rivers , a few square miles of trees and a brace of hills , lochs or lakes , then they just are n't interested .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: no)
At any stage . In fact , we like nothing better that to get involved as early as possible . ( Before a drawing ever appears on the board , preferably ) . To us , brickwork is not simply about size , colour , quantity and delivery . It is about building relationships .
Idiom: hang by a thread (used idiomatically: yes)
He was unconscious throughout Grand National Day in 1991 , having ruptured his stomach 48 hours earlier , during a novice hurdle at Aintree . His injuries were so serious he could have died without prompt treatment . His career , literally , hung by a thread of tissue which , if it had broken , would have forced him to wear a colostomy bag for life . ‘ There 's no point in worrying,’ Powell rationalised . ‘ If you do it 's time to pack up.’
Idiom: pleased as punch (used idiomatically: yes)
' I suppose so , ' she said . ' I do n't know . ' ' He 's as pleased as Punch about it . He 's been bouncing about the office all day like a rubber ball . ' ' You do n't think he 's going to make a terrible fool of himself , do you , Bob ? '
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
I prepare for my music exam I prepare for my music exam , if you 're going to do prepare , what are you going to put on the end ? Yes I would care for when I had to do something , rather than just go straight into that , good Giggle Giggle , mm , we know all about that do n't we ?
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: yes)
There were polished dark wood floors and green blinds . Heavy wrought - iron black fireplaces were installed once more , to Ted 's irritation , as he 'd spent much of his working life tearing out fireplaces so women like my mother did n't have to get up early on freezing mornings to make up the fire on their knees . When Auntie Jean slammed Uncle Ted 's tea on the table at the end of each day — a meat pie and chips , or a nice bit of rump steak and tartar sauce ( he had n't the nerve yet to go vegetarian ) — she sat opposite him with a stiff drink and demanded facts about Eva and Dad . ' So what did you tell her last night , Uncle Ted ? ' I 'd ask him the next day as we worked .
Idiom: under the wire (used idiomatically: yes)
Always in search of alternative entertainment , Rough led the team 's other two keepers George Wood and David Harvey on a late - night expedition to a local hostelry known as ' The Marine Grill ' . In time honoured tradition , the players returned well after the curfew time had expired . For once they managed to evade the searchlights , dodge the guard - dogs , tunnel under the barbed wire and make it back to the sanctuary of their bunks before Stein and the Stalag Squad knew they were gone . It was a great escape for a team so used to getting caught , but Rough and his fellow revellers chanced their luck and noisily ordered room - service when they got back to the hotel . The sandwiches were quickly followed by the wrath of the Scotland manager , who charged into the bedroom and threw a glass of milk over the startled keeper .
Idiom: take the wind out of someone's sails (used idiomatically: yes)
And the larger - than - life scene with Rance , with the amazing motoric tension of the card game — all that out of context sounds naïve and , by the standards of modern psychology , pretty basic . But if you have an extremely subtle story , how are you going to set it to music ? The words and the theatrical element have in a sense taken the musical wind out of your sails . But because Puccini 's story is so bare and elemental , he 's able to create something which is immensely subtle and extremely rich . And the more I conduct it , the more it comes to seem the richest of all his operas . '
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: yes)
His movements were rapid and inhuman . I had to run with him , dreading what would come next . Victor Frankenstein still lay senseless on the carpet below . Someone was with him . His servant Yet was bending over him , and had Victor 's head against his knee .
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: yes)
Edgar , I do n't know how far your people got upstairs … ’ ‘ Nothing . Just minor bloodstains on the carpet where you found the hand . That was it.’ ‘ Okay .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Work in pairs , just round the table , do n't be embarrassed with , John , Clare , Phil and Ed . Just spend five minutes putting your thoughts down on paper . What are the words , what are the expressions that come to mind when you say influencing . What are things , other meanings of it . A word that coins the same message .
Idiom: the icing on the cake (used idiomatically: yes)
In the 28th minute he collected a Peschsllibo pass to turn and score with a low shot into the far corner of the net . Skipper John Frain got into the act in the 37th minute when he made a charge through Derby 's rear guard to convert Dave Smyth 's pass on the run . Birmingham were now in complete control and put the icing on the cake four minutes before the interval when on loan Karl Shutt put over a cross which Saville , completely unmarked , headed into the root of the net . In the second period Birmingham eased up but Derby were still unable to make any impact as the Blues maintained a strong grip on the proceedings . Collegians 15 Instonians 28
Idiom: yes and no (used idiomatically: yes)
It is difficult to keep up a conversation with someone who only says " Yes " and " No " .
Idiom: out of the running (used idiomatically: no)
The two episodes , however , plainly show the danger to a political interest in any contest for the collectorship , particularly when the candidates are both political friends . An avowed enemy could of course be opposed with propriety , but if sufficient effort was not made to put victory beyond dispute , there was always some danger of humiliation , and , since there were inevitably many gentlemen who loved a winner , there would be some to see such a defeat as a sign to reconsider their political friendships . Craigbarnet had been supported , at considerable inconvenience , by the Montrose interest , mainly in order to please the head of the Stirling family , Stirling of Keir , who was a relative of the Duke of Montrose , but no sooner was Craigbarnet out of the running than another potentially explosive dispute arose which might well have set the Duke of Montrose at variance with Lord Elphinstone or another valuable ally , Dundas of Lethem . The collectorship of supply , as Montrose remarked on another occasion , was ‘ an affair that too often divides neighbours’ , and he might have added , it also divided political interests . The link with parliamentary politics was effective in both directions , however , and a collector who openly opposed the political interest of the politician in control of the parliamentary seat was unlikely to retain his own position beyond the next meeting of the commission of supply , unless of course the political interest in power was about to be destroyed .
Idiom: beyond the pale (used idiomatically: yes)
He drank some more . ‘ Murder,’ he said , in the tones of someone who knew a bit about the subject , ‘ is something we try and classify . Try and put beyond the pale . But we all have a murderer in us . It 's just that most of us are not honest enough to admit to the fact .
Idiom: claim to fame (used idiomatically: yes)
Fern Lodge is a tea - caddy Regency house with a frilly wrought - iron porch , set in half an acre of secluded gardens ; but it has no notable interiors . It is on the market through Savills and Goldschmidt & Howland at £ 1.5 million . Hunt 's main claim to fame these days is his two - year term in prison for a particularly nasty libel — he called the Prince Regent ‘ a fat Adonis of 50’ . ANOTHER Highgate house with a Dickens connection is Church House , said to be Steerforth 's house in David Copperfield . Dickens describes it merely as ‘ a genteel old - fashioned house , very quiet and orderly .
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: yes)
Above , where hot lava erupted from the crust to be chilled by cold sea - water are purple , bulbous pillow lavas . Drilling brings to light a vertical column of rocks in which history is written , albeit tersely , in the cryptic shorthand of rock sequence , texture , composition . The sequence above , starting with the lavas , is what geologists would expect to find in a hole piercing 6 km into the ocean crust . But on Cyprus a single hole is impractical ; cost and difficulties mount rapidly with depth , so instead a number of holes ( probably five ) will be drilled in Cyprus . Because the Troodos ophiolite has been uplifted and eroded , a slice through successive layers of oceanic crust has been exposed , high and dry on the main hillsides of Cyprus .
Idiom: on the money (used idiomatically: yes)
5 . The government sells bonds and Treasury bills to the general public and non - bank firms ( collectively known as the ‘ non - bank private sector’ ) . This will have no effect on the money supply . When the public buy the bonds or bills they will draw money from their banks . When the government spends the money it will be redeposited in banks .
Idiom: weather the storm (used idiomatically: yes)
She 's become a bit of a star herself and I 'm very happy for her . But she 's been approached by the gutter press to sell her story of her life with me and I 've had to intercept certain envelopes that have been sent in . Cheque book journalism has been pointed at Madge but luckily she 's weathered the storm or else,’ Dame Edna paused dramatically , ‘ she 'd be back on the streets.’ Heaving bosom Dame Edna , I ventured , referring to her forthcoming autobiography , is the public really ready for the frank disclosures of your life ?
Idiom: game on (used idiomatically: yes)
What er portable home one . oh what do you get games on it Comes out in August . or what ?