Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: from scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
Can change be introduced in ways that most medical schools would find acceptable ? Dr Colin Coles , an educational psychologist from Southampton , is a firm believer in change through evolution rather than revolution . He cautions against assuming that the only ways to implement effective reform are to start from scratch ( as with McMaster 's course , utilising problem based learning in small groups ) or to adopt wholesale change as at Harvard . He suggests that the end product of medical education should resemble ‘ a well stocked library capable of updating and cross referencing’ and emphasises the importance of ‘ elaborated learning,’in which students find that what they learn in various parts of the course ‘ fit together’into a useful , coordinated whole that they can continue to use long after the relevant examination is over . Although adopting an integrated problem based course may be one way of achieving elaboration , Dr Coles believes that such radical approaches are not essential .
Idiom: get the nod (used idiomatically: yes)
Reading 's renaissance was underpinned by the even greater success of ' 90 and ' 91 . Indeed , after years of benign neglect , the job of booking acts for Reading became every promoter 's dream . Earlier this year the Mean Fiddler 's Vince Power and the Pendleton organisation failed to reach agreement on negotiating a new three - year contract and Paul McAvoy , booking manager at the Marquee , got the nod instead . ‘ The Mean Fiddler’ did a brilliant job,’says McAvoy . ‘ They turned Reading round after that debacle in ' 88 , and at the time I was very surprised that Vince did n't accept the new contract because it 's become such a prestigious event .
Idiom: see the light (used idiomatically: no)
This has to be seen to be appreciated , engines can be viewed from several angles , compared with one another , or taken in in one awe - inspiring vista . Of the airframes , the bulk of the NAC are so well documented that they need not be spotlighted here . Instead , we shall zoom in on the ‘ new boys’ two of which are far from new and have not seen the light of day for many a long year . In this category comes the Weiss glider of 1905 , a bird - like device built and flown by artist José Weiss and tested at Amberley Mount in Sussex . Weiss later collaborated with Alexander Keith to produce an ornithopter , or flapping wing machine .
Idiom: have someone's number (used idiomatically: no)
John was paid an annual fee by the Folies - Bergère management for the exclusive use of his Girls in Paris . Forty - eight were used in one production and of these the Eight Extraordinary Dancers did their own specialities which were naturally very juvenile : the Pony Trot , the Bells and the Xylophone . The remaining taller dancers , called Les John Tiller Folies Stars , not only appeared in the production numbers with the rest of the cast but also had their own numbers . Working on the stage of the Folies was fraught with difficulty — there were so many trap doors for the various effects : fountains , moving staircases , foam cascading down the side , even mimosa perfume sprayed from the flies in one number . They wondered why they were asked if they could stand heights and naturally no one admitted to such a weakness so seven volunteers were picked to appear in Les Jambes de la Femme .
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: yes)
But there it is , situation normal . There is no hint of any dramatic change in the standard winter scene . Out at sea things can be a lot more volatile . Storms and pollution , changes in food supplies , ocean currents and temperatures can all have drastic effects on those birds which spend their lives on the oceans of the world . But birds , with their great mobility , have evolved to cope with many of those problems .
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: yes)
er son No the computer , in the corner Yeah , he was in the club tonight Mr or young They 're doing well
Idiom: be left holding the baby (used idiomatically: yes)
You probably took chances rather than precautions . And although it does n't let your daughter 's father off the hook , it does n't let you off either . The difference is that you were left holding the baby . Which is women 's lot . But not , as the blinkered writer of that article implied , necessarily her own independent choice .
Idiom: run a mile (used idiomatically: no)
I want to remain exceptionally thin , because then I am never likely to get fat . I realise that this must sound silly , but I do n't know how to change it . I run three miles , or swim 40–60 lengths , six days a week , and also do an hour 's stretching and strengthening exercises every day , which makes me quite fit , a feeling I enjoy . The stupid part is , recently I noticed a girl at our local swimming pool , painfully emaciated , like something out of a concentration camp , who came every morning to swim lengths , as I do . I plucked up the courage to talk to her , and felt this urgent need to tell her that she would eventually kill herself .
Idiom: out and about (used idiomatically: no)
‘ Looking Good , Feeling Good ’ — new publication GRANDPARENTS DAY™ MEDIA COVERAGE The Media Unit would like to thank everyone who carried out radio and press interviews about Grandparents Day . Although representatives of Age Concern England were interviewed by a number of local radio interviewers the stations are always far more interested in a local angle and it is very helpful when we can refer enquiries to a local group . Overall coverage and publicity of the day was excellent , with very little adverse publicity .
Idiom: rough and ready (used idiomatically: yes)
Proctor argues that this has led to an increasingly transient workforce on the wards . This undermines any attempt at individualised quality care since the workforce can not assimilate the individual needs , likes and dislikes of a different group of patients each time they come on duty . Dependency on standardised routines and rough and ready indicators of patients ' needs , such as their level of mobility , is essential ( Proctor 1990 ) . Recent work by the Audit Commission confirms that this is often the case ( Audit Commission 1992 ) . Three important conclusions follow from this discussion .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
He threw her a sharp glance . ‘ I am sure it earns you a great deal of money.’ There was an undertone to the words that set Caroline 's teeth on edge . She swung away from him and stared out the side window . ‘ You 're very sure of everything,’ she said coldly .
Idiom: in bed with (used idiomatically: yes)
It must have been an hour and a half at least before we managed to get the thing out of the water . He never forgave us you know . The car never ran again and Stewart himself was in bed with a bad dose of the cold for a week . Well he was a bit mad Elsie you know that and I am afraid he has got worse now . Did he not go and shoot someone at the clay - pigeon shooting in Ardallt two months ago !
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: yes)
This missile is not particularly clever , but the computers that control it and the radar are . As the interceptor streaks up , the radar tracks it as well as the incoming target . The radar beam which tracks the Patriot missile carries instructions updating it on which way to go to head off the enemy . When the interceptor gets close to its target , it is used as a second radar receiver . Beams that bounce off the target are received by the interceptor , which passes the information back to the ground .
Idiom: force someone's hand (used idiomatically: yes)
He was fully aware of the blasphemy implicit in suggesting that human beings were not created by God as separate and distinct from nature , and of the turmoil that such a theory would release on the Victorian world . It is plain from his private correspondence that , even if he had discovered by himself the mechanism by which species diverge , he had no intention of publishing until after his death . But it was the arrival of the brilliant paper from the much younger , socially insignificant Alfred Russel Wallace which forced his hand — affording Darwin the full posthumous credit for Wallace 's discovery , and the bequeathing to subsequent generations of a " Darwinian bias " which is considerably less enlightened than Wallace 's own interpretation . " Survival of the strongest " , for instance , and its tooth - and - claw ethic which became associated with Social Darwinism , is not at all what Wallace had meant by " survival of the fittest " , where fitness was defined by him as a far subtler and more complex weave of forces than mere pugnacious self - interest . A further major difference was in the two men 's attitudes towards tribal peoples — whom Wallace recognized as fascinating equals , rather than as " a lower order of the human race " , which was Darwin 's perhaps unwitting contribution to twentieth - century racism .
Idiom: go to seed (used idiomatically: yes)
Maybe it does . But it 's no bad thing — we should take the two way traffic of actors and directors more seriously than we do . And a production should not just be a matter of getting a good notice and leaving it to go to seed slowly . David Suchet Trained at LAMDA .
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: yes)
Normally I would have come up fighting . I learned Dimac from a lama in Tibet and my hands are so deadly that I have to keep them in a locked closet when they 're not in use . It was a real drag to find them handcuffed behind my back just when I needed them most , I can tell you . ‘ Wake up Widebarn.’ I knew that voice almost as well as I knew the theme from Doctor Zhivago .
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
Stand at the back or something yeah , come round and have a look if you want to , come and stand up here close if you want to okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? Yes Yes , okay and we 're still coming round yet again and the last one cos she 's got quite a large fist , I 'll take it over the top , round the back and this one now I can tie , tie it off , sorry tie it off on the back of her hand now , I do n't want to tie it off on the front cos in a minute I want to put this into a sling not too tight ?
Idiom: go for broke (used idiomatically: yes)
They call it the Winter Game … and those that follow the form from Kelso to Kempton … from Wolverhampton to Wincanton reckon its the hardest game of all … six days a week … from dawn till dusk … from gallop to grandstand … fortunes may be won or lost at the betting shops or with the bookies … but for the stables … for the lads and lasses and trainers its a hard grind … the toughest crack though … is for the pilots … the jockeys … they starve themselves to ride light … they drive themselves thousands of miles from race to race … and then give it everything to go for broke … so the champion jockey walks tall … Peter Scudamore has been king for the last seven seasons … but now its Richard Dunwoody 's turn to lead the race … he 's the best they say … the finest horseman … they all want him to win … suddenly the pressure 's on
Idiom: fun and games (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ What 's that supposed to mean?’ ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again?’ ‘ That was hardly my idea of fun and games.’ ‘ No , of course not . It must have been creepy for you , going into that empty house and finding something nasty behind the door … hey , that 'd make a title , would n't it ?
Idiom: stand someone in good stead (used idiomatically: yes)
There are fewer who read Czech poetry , or have their paintings exhibited regularly in London and Edinburgh . But Michael Peckham does all three — which makes him seem , on the face of it , an unlikely character to move to Whitehall as the government 's new Director of Research and Development at the Department of Health . He may be an unlikely civil servant , but his qualities should stand him in good stead for the job of producing a national strategy for the NHS 's science . A cancer researcher by profession , he has the appropriate academic and medical credentials , the respect of his colleagues , and a strong commitment to the health service . He also shows a healthy disrespect for the over - specialised , and is as much at home with the nuts and bolts of medical practice as he is with basic research in the laboratory .
Idiom: cold comfort (used idiomatically: yes)
Further , the Windows discs are no less a vehicle for contextual and technical messages than the Panadol pack : symbolism and imagery in brand logos and packaging , quality of label print , physical size , soft or hard sectored , whether or not factory write - protected , presence of reinforcing ring and so on . The discs are informative as generic objects ( media ) as well as conveying product - specific information about Windows . However , the richness as a cultural object of a deteriorated Windows 1.0 disc pack is cold comfort to an archivist or historian preoccupied with preserving or regenerating the operational environment of the product . So we return to the question of functional intactness . Software we know is ‘ brittle’ .
Idiom: claim to fame (used idiomatically: yes)
Some have compared him to Orson Welles . Others call him Oliver Stone with a sense of humour . No one with half an eye on current trends is mentioning that his main claim to fame used to be as Susan Sarandon 's toy boy . Too obscure last year to merit a listing in Who 's Who In Entertainment , this year he is , quite simply , a sensation . Being named Best Actor at Cannes for The Player was merely a warm - up for the adulation induced by his latest film , Bob Roberts .
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
Among the trick films , for example , he made use of double exposure as early as eighteen ninety - eight in a group of films , these are titles , ' Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother ' , ' The Mesmerist ' , ' The Corsican Brothers ' , things like this , and he was one of the pioneers incidentally of the close - up . Usually it 's D W Griffith of America who 's given credit for the intelligent use of the close - up erm but Smith was immensely interested in the portraiture area of photography , and made a series of films which were called at the time ' facials ' . ' Facials ' meaning erm films of people pulling faces , grimaces , caricatures , human caricatures really . And this was a most interesting branch of early filmmaking , it was the mobile portrait , the portrait where people 's faces were in action . erm I see here one of his catalogue entries for eighteen ninety - eight , ' Waves and Spray .
Idiom: second nature (used idiomatically: yes)
He quickly learned the tricks . The Cabinet committee on a new Government Conference Centre to be built on the Storey 's Gate site ruled out the investment on grounds of cost ( it was subsequently given the go - ahead and , as of Autumn 1985 , has almost been completed ) . Playing it long became second nature . Barnett wanted to defer the building of a new British Library next to St Pancras Station . ‘ I was once told of a favourite phrase of Harold Wilson 's : ‘ A decision deferred is a decision made.’
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: no)
Thirdly , particular actors are rarely , if ever , indispensable to the processes in which they take part . The more interchangeable they are , the more it matters to understand the process independently of the actors . As Marx remarked , even when we make our own history , we do not make it in conditions of our own choosing and much of it is made behind our backs . Although strenuous versions of individualism have answers to all three points , one sees their force . Hence the level - of - analysis problem also troubles a hermeneutic approach .
Idiom: work wonders (used idiomatically: yes)
But if you are tactful in your approach in this touchy area , you may be able , slowly and Patiently , to build up for her a picture of a sample programme of meals for a seven - day period that would be low in cost and effort but reasonably tasty and nutritionally adequate . Ideas for this may be found in Chapter 4 . A firm , but not frightening , explanation of what dietary deficiency can do to the health of old people can often work wonders in stirring them into action , too . Another point worth remembering is that it is important to make sure that your parent 's larder is well stocked with the right kind of non - perishable foods to deal with any emergency such as extreme weather conditions , or times when you may be unable to visit her because of illness or holidays , unless a neighbour is doing her shopping for her . You should also make certain that she has a good tin - opener which she can use without difficulty .
Idiom: steal the show (used idiomatically: yes)
When DJ Lethal gets a look in , he seems to be trying to emulate Muggs ' style , choosing breaks from blues or rock - based material rather than funk or soul . Lethal will probably be a top - notch producer in another album 's time — Muggs already is . To further emphasise the gulf between the leaders and the followers , Cypress Hill rapper B - Real steals the show on the album 's best track , ‘ Put Your Head Out’ . House Of Pain are pure frustration . They represent a racial minority , they inhabit a riot zone , they have a huge reserve of latent talent and they can shift records by the ton .
Idiom: think twice (used idiomatically: yes)
Voice over Mick and Lisa Hayes have lived at Haydon Wick in Swindon for the past 9 years . At first they did n't think twice about the 132,000 volt power lines above them ; in fact they used to live next door , but one , with a pylon next to their garden fence . Since then , speculation that families living close to high - voltage cables are at a greater than normal risk from childhood leukaemia and other cancers , has made them wonder about the safety of their sons Daryl , aged 2 and Jack , just 8 weeks old . Wiltshire County Council shares Mick 's concern .
Idiom: lose the plot (used idiomatically: yes)
Taking the stance that we all have habits , some legal , some not , Excess tries its hardest not to preach , opting instead to cover a range of perspectives and experiences from inner city drug dealer to suburban moral guardian , jacked - up junkie to weekend binger , loved - up football fans to clubbers on come - down . Indeed , its strength is that it casts a caustic eye over the club scene , dealing with familiar situations with enough self - deprecation and sarcasm to stem any pretension . However , Excess loses the plot when it attempts to trace club culture back to its black and gay roots in half - a - dozen rhyming couplets or explain the appeal of Ibiza as club nirvana through two camp characters who , one assumes , symbolise ‘ hedonism’ . The dialogue , full of all the right buzz words and curses , might relate to hip kids , but will probably confound the very people it 's trying to enlighten . And when the six - strong cast burst into stumbling raps or ranting incantations , even the ravers dotted in the audience look confused .
Idiom: come unstuck (used idiomatically: yes)
Why was he constantly jumping to conclusions ? Nothing she said made any difference . He thought he knew it all , and that was where he was going to come unstuck . Just wait till she saw Adam again . She 'd get this thing sorted out .
Idiom: sweep the board (used idiomatically: yes)
He was also the British Men 's Combined champion . Mr Mike Hammond won the Duchess of York Trophy for the British Disabled Overall Champion ; Corporal Craig Bonnington won the Zach Freeth Giant Slalom Trophy ; and the Hill Samuel Trophy for the best British newcomer went to Captain Jonathan Stichbury . The Wilkinson Sword was won by the British Army Ladies ' Team , and team member 2nd Lt . Tana McQuoid , who as a newcomer to the Championships , swept the board . She won the Biffo Betts Giant Slalom Trophy , the Tony Gregory Trophy , the Courage Special Slalom Trophy , the Ladies ' Combined Open Champion , the Eric Henry Trophy , the Pat Magill Trophy for the best newcomer , and finally , the Duchess of York 's Trophy for the Ladies Commonwealth Overall Champion . A truly amazing achievement !
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
Now this , this was very popular and , and very much in fashion . Very difficult to knit . So this gentleman designed a machine and I 've got a picture of the machine here , which you can see . Nottinghamshire carpenter . Yeah , s so it 's a Nottingham a Nottinghamshire invention by the Reverend William Lee .
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: yes)
This is , of course , where Locus comes in . It intends to offer customers strategic business planning as well as interoperability strategies for the future . It reckons it is well placed given its behind - the - scenes work in helping to develop some important interoperability features for Unix : it also developed the Transparent Computing Facility for IBM 's AIX and a remote procedure call test and validation suite for the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment . Locus believes the future of distributed computing lies in transaction processing , saying TP will drive the distributed systems market in the same way that databases drove the client - server market . Locus has four offices in the US , which have generated most of its income .
Idiom: turn heads (used idiomatically: yes)
We only spoke of happy things … ' Going out through a side door , she stood a while in the courtyard . A gardener came by with a barrow , but did n't turn his head . In the distance she saw Fräulein , carrying a flower basket . She thought of joining her .
Idiom: give and take (used idiomatically: yes)
These include open discussion with all staff before drawing up the policy , three months ' advance warning of proposed changes , and a working party made up of both smokers and non - smokers to seek out and respond to the staff 's views . In general , smokers do not want to be patronised with compulsory anti - smoking meetings during working hours , or ' ghettoised ' in cramped and dirty ' sin bins'at the ends of disused corridors . The smoking minority should be entitled to choose whether and when they will give up smoking and to take short smoking breaks during work time . If you 've smoked 30 a day for 20 years , is it worth giving up ? Yes .
Idiom: sign of the times (used idiomatically: no)
Mr. Rost My hon . Friend has identified the potential of £ 10 billion worth of energy saving a year which is cost effective . Can he give any sign of the time scale that he hopes will be achieved and what impact that would have on the energy ratio that he has just quoted ? Mr. Moynihan I can not give my hon . Friend a precise timetable .