Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: shut the door on (used idiomatically: yes)
While Farr - Jones will be wearing the gold Australian jumper this year , it seems certain that flanker Simon Poidevin will be missing . Poidevin has announced he is unable to devote the same time and commitment to the game this year because of his business pressures with a Sydney stockbroking firm . But Poidevin , a veteran of 59 test caps and Australia 's most capped forward , did n't shut the door completely on playing in more Test matches . He said he is still available to play for Australia in domestic tests but has asked to be judged on his form with Sydney club Randwick . At the same time , though , Poidevin acknowledges that the national selectors will be more interested in choosing a flanker from the New South Wales and Queensland teams .
Idiom: see the light (used idiomatically: yes)
Was polyneuritis infectious ? ' I do n't understand it , Doctor ! They both started throwing up and seeing flashing lights ! Might it be some form of … I do n't know … '(rapidly)' … infectious polyneuritis ? '
Idiom: make or break (used idiomatically: yes)
Diana 's crunch holiday JAMES WHITAKER CHARLES and Diana arrived in Greece for a make - or - break ‘ secret’ holiday last night — and immediately zoomed off in separate speedboats . Diana climbed aboard one boat with children William and Harry for the short hop to their luxury yacht . Then Charles jumped into a second speedboat with Princess Alexandra 's husband , Sir Angus Ogilvy .
Idiom: fall short (used idiomatically: yes)
They suggest , by implication at the very least , that modern society is characterised by greater promiscuity , greater sexual licence , by altogether less controlled or constrained sexual behaviour . The liberal - historians also tend to suggest that permissiveness has allowed greater freedom for sexual ( and other forms of ) expression , though for feminist critics this was simply a reordered means of continuing women 's oppression . Both the Marxist and the Eliasian approaches , on the other hand , although implying that there may have been great changes in sexual behaviour , fall short of actually saying so . Hall et al . talk of a ‘ changing moral climate’ and point to legislative change that decriminalised certain forms of behaviour , but further than that they do not go .
Idiom: on the same page (used idiomatically: yes)
Why there 's a difference . That 's right . Now the next thing erm , on the same page was , having taken away the , th th the non fee earning elements it actually pushed , and I 'm looking at your revised sheet now Yes . it pushed B E S work supervisors and P Q S into a , a loss making situation , admittedly only marginally .
Idiom: touch wood (used idiomatically: yes)
Ooh , goes quickly , I know he 's terrible ! I mean , Honey , considering she 's older , touch wood and , you know hardly She costs a penny !
Idiom: live a lie (used idiomatically: yes)
Kate sat opposite her and sighed . ‘ It 's not just what you wrote that hurts us , Lizzy , it 's the way you 've been living a lie all this time.’ ‘ I had to live a lie ! If you knew what I was doing you 'd have moved heaven and earth to stop me . It 's my life , Mum , my life.’
Idiom: word of mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
Note that BRAC 's programme started shortly after ( and ran concurrently with ) the NORP programme described in Chapter 3 . By devising an oral rehydration solution made from home ingredients , the problem of cost was ( partially at least ) solved , as was the problem of supplying pre - packaged Oral Rehydration Salts to a population 92 % of whom lived in rural areas where transportation was generally very poor . Finally , by teaching mothers about the lobon - gur mixture by word of mouth , the fact that more than 80 % of the country 's population was illiterate became of no consequence . The next chapter describes BRAC 's initial attempts to gauge the success of Phase 1 of its Oral Therapy Extension Programme . THE ORAL THERAPY EXTENSION PROGRAMME — PHASE 1
Idiom: betwixt and between (used idiomatically: yes)
Only a fraction of those who know the Oberland are acquainted with the Bernest Mitteland — except perhaps for the capital city , Bern itself , which lies near the centre of it . The concept of Mittelland is very important to the Swiss . In Switzerland there are very few real plains , and the term Mittelland ( in which Mittel means something like " betwixt and between " ) is applied to the great areas of pre - alpine hills and of rolling plateau country which over millenia have been settled and cultivated by the ancestors and predecessors of the Swiss , and on which have grown the great historic centres of agricultural civilisation as well as the civilisation of cities . At the opposite end of the Lake of Thun ( or Thunersee ) from Interlaken lies Thun . In terms of political and administrative boundaries , Thun is counted as part of the Oberland .
Idiom: spot on (used idiomatically: yes)
I was having a nervous breakdown and I had to decide whether I was going to spend the rest of my life hiding under a bed , or whether I was going to do what I wanted to do.’ For three years , he stumbled nervously around the London comedy circuit with a ten - minute set which incorporated a few half decent gags and various attempts at making political statements with his dishevelled hair . By the time he had developed a strong 40-minute routine , he was invited to do a solo spot on Channel 4 's Friday Night Live . Shortly after this , he decided to ditch the one - liner style of stand - up and get rid of his immortal catch - phrase ( ‘ Put that chicken away , missus!’ ) in favour of a more confessional comedy routine ; he would gather up the rough , rotting scraps of his experience and weave them into balmy theatrical monologues . Hughes became the puzzled spectator of his own life , examining his own beleaguered existence like a tourist poking around in the ruins .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
An alpha specification — described as the Distributed Computing Environment plus a ‘ broader set of distributed computing services’— with an application development environment , is now doing the rounds . The more shadowy COSE III should result in a standard distributed systems management environment specification that may include the Tivoli Systems Inc object - oriented applications programming interface . Guidon says meetings are going more or less constantly — the X / Open Co Ltd - hosted COSE get - together in Menlo Park on Tuesday was likely used to take stock . Digital Equipment Corp , left out of the COSE initiative , has been invited , and it says that it will send its X / Open representative as an observer . Microsoft refuses to be phased by emergence of united Unix front
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
You . Dig . ' Heg and Biff sat on the edge of the open grave sucking their unlit pipes . About six feet below them they could hear thumps and scrapes as the luckless Stim dug his way down into the darkness . ' Are … are ye still up therr … ? '
Idiom: keep a low profile (used idiomatically: yes)
In the evening , after the first stiffness wore off and charades were introduced , the party went with a swing . The child was not present : her father had taken what he termed a very tired little princess upstairs , given her her bath and put her to bed . During the Christmas dinner Andrew had kept a low profile , as it were , but in the evening he had played host under the admiring gaze of Mrs Emma Funnell . And the feeling this generated in both Lizzie and Peggy was much the same : resentment and a dull anger directed , if anything , more against the old woman than the young man . Boxing Day , like all Boxing Days , was a day of clearing up and trying to get through left - overs .
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
And she had answered , ‘ The sooner the better . I would have thought you were already known there , anyway.’ On New Year 's Eve , and out of the blue , he told her he was going to a party and he did n't know what time he would be back . They were having a cup of tea in the drawing - room . The cup was halfway to her mouth when she said , ‘ We wo n't be seeing the New Year in then?’
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
McClellan 's work furnishes basic formulae for calculations of this kind . Such formulae are complex and not easily resolved since the relevant factors can not all be readily equated , and in any case are not all quantifiable . Briefly , these factors are : the total population of the area and the number of registered library members ; trends in book publishing — i.e. the number of new books published per annum , broken down by subjects ; the length of life of stock on the open shelves ( depreciation rate ) ; the risen costs of books and binding on the previous year 's fund ; and the range and condition of the existing stock . Major changes of policy or new developments in an authority may also affect funding for materials — as , for instance , at the opening of a new service point . However , stock purchased for growth or expansion is normally regarded as capital expenditure and is therefore not considered for the purposes of recurrent funding .
Idiom: kick up a stink (used idiomatically: yes)
Despite a very difficult market , Everest 's fresh eggs brought in £ 400,000 . As a result , Everest have now invested £ 6 million in a new plant — so they can turn out even more frozen chips . Kicking up a big stink BUMPER sales of Ladybird kids ' clothes boosted half - year profits for the Kingfisher group by four per cent to £ 64.9 million . This is despite a stinking row after the perfume industry cut off supplies to Superdrug for slashing scent prices by nearly a third .
Idiom: in the raw (used idiomatically: no)
They can be performed relatively easily and effectively by hand . More powerful elaborations of the simple ideas presented here are also available in computer algorithms ; readers should consult the Minitab manual to see what is done there . In most of the examples discussed in this chapter , the finished product is a smooth curve which resembles what we might have drawn if we had smoothed the raw data by eye ; looking from the smooth back to the rough we could usually see the trend in the raw data . Why bother smoothing ? Well , it can sometimes reveal patterns not immediately obvious to the naked eye ; an example of this is shown in exercise 9.3 .
Idiom: have no truck with (used idiomatically: yes)
I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . And then the Bible and Christianity became more and more central to the novel . , Another sense in which you 're anti - humanist is that you have no truck with ideas of personal ( or social ) progress — people achieving self - sufficiency and fullness of being by becoming more ‘ conscious’ . ‘ No , I do n't have that view of the world . i see everyone as very much alone .
Idiom: take someone for a ride (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Before we go any further — you are serious ? You 're not just stringing me along ? Not just taking me for a ride?’ ‘ No , I like to call the tune.’ ‘ You really enjoy doing that?’
Idiom: come to grief (used idiomatically: yes)
But as the race got underway at Abu Dhabi , things started to go wrong . A crash attracted the attention of the rescue boats , and the cameras . But out of sight at the other end of the course , Mr Hill had also come to grief . It 's not yet clear how . But reports say he was alive when rescuers picked him up .
Idiom: sweetness and light (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I 'll give you the same chance I 'd give a hungry vixen in a rabbit cage,’ he growled . ‘ Do n't try soft - soaping me . I 'm immune to sweetness and light.’ ‘ Oh , for heaven 's sake ! Are you condemning me outright?’ she snapped with some asperity .
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
Day after day we were fog - bound in East Anglia and all our aircraft were grounded . Henry and Jimmy went off on a 48 hour pass with a couple of nurses they had met at a dance in Cambridge , so , feeling decidedly sour , Rosemary and I went into Cambridge on our own on Christmas Eve . The Backs always attracted me , even in a winter fog , and we eventually found ourselves in King 's College Chapel for what I think must have been the very first of the annual carol concerts . We were not feeling at all holy when we went in , having decided that all men were rotters , and fancy leaving us at Christmas for a couple of dames they had only just met ! But perhaps our feet were guided there , because we came out much soothed and at peace .
Idiom: kiss of death (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes , I believe what did it was Tesco 's them out . Ah . Tesco were the grocery chain and the Green Shield Stamps and it was the kiss of death for Green Shield when they did that . Did they pull out ? They staggered on for a year or two after that , but Tesco 's had a big , big change of policy they were no longer high and kick them out cheap , they decided to promote a quality in which stamps did not go for and erm
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
Data in brackets indicate the values of change that would be ‘ expected’ if employment in all individual manufacturing industries were to undergo the same changes as in Great Britain as a whole . This was due to the coincidence of the growth of ‘ regional policy factories’ in , for instance , the Northern Region and Wales with a heavy run - down in London factories ( sometimes due to property development ) . The gap was re - opened with a vengeance by events after 1978 , when ‘ the North - South divide’ entered a period of widening on most economic and political measures . In 1979–83 manufacturing output declined in all regions , varying from -3.0 per cent in East Anglia to -19.3 per cent in the North West , -20.0 per cent in Wales and — 23.3 per cent in the West Midlands . These three regions of the North were also the ones most hit by redundancies , but job loss in all regions of the North was close to its average of -20.0 per cent from 1978 to 1981 , compared with -11.3 per cent in the South .
Idiom: out of sight (used idiomatically: yes)
Come back Peter come back Paul As you say ‘ fly away’ you lift your hands behind your ears and switch your fingers , so hiding the piece of paper . So , with ‘ fly away Peter’ you lift up your left hand and , as your fingers go out of sight behind your ears , you put away your index finger and bring out the second finger . For the right hand the process is reversed . You then bring your hands down and show that the birds have flown .
Idiom: look the other way (used idiomatically: no)
Finding a proper match between new book selection and stock revision is difficult , if not impossible , because the two approaches are so different . In one sense , new book selection is a way of filling in or updating between stock revisions , but this assumes that the whole of a stock is updated , subject by subject , over a limited timespan , and because stock revision is a highly staff - intensive process that is rarely the case . Looking at things the other way around , it might seem that if selection of new books could be carried out thoroughly , taking proper account of demand , and if proper weeding and replacement procedures could be instituted , stock revision would not be necessary at all . However in practice deterioration of stock inevitably sets in , through a variety of factors : original errors or omissions in selection ( for the reasons suggested above ) ; poor control of withdrawals and replacements ; fluctuations in funding over a period of years ; fluctuations in demand caused by changes in the constituency , or changes in their needs . Little stock revision is carried out in academic libraries , partly because it is less appropriate for research collections , and partly because few academic libraries pay close attention to the use of stock .
Idiom: on the game (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ People ask me if it 's embarrassing to be missing from the Rangers side when England is focused on our big European nights . ‘ The simple answer is no . I missed out on the two games against Lyngby and the first leg against Leeds . Then the gaffer thinks of a tactical plan for Elland Road and I 'm in from the start . ‘ Even though I then missed the Marseille game I know Walter will play me when needed . ’
Idiom: take someone for a ride (used idiomatically: yes)
The year 's trial run begins on November the first and the service will be free to rail - users . If the electric buses prove popular the county council says it hopes that all buses running in the city centre will be electric by the turn of the century . A glider pilot is trying to popularise a new aerial sport by taking people for free rides . He 's trying to show that the glider can be far more than the gentle flying machines they seem from the ground . MIKE ROWBOTTOM / Reporting
Idiom: in the swim (used idiomatically: yes)
Well you probably for me , but you probably tried hardest in your swim did n't you ? Well I do n't think I did really , I just was n't very sharp really . I , well I know you have days where you just you feel alright
Idiom: touch wood (used idiomatically: yes)
Oh . having a new on it . Yes touch wood , for flowers it has n't been too bad a year , so far , we have n't had very . No . This is the only bit of garden I bother with , and nature can have the rest .
Idiom: make ends meet (used idiomatically: yes)
The crunch came in para . 47 : The Government have accordingly decided to plan on the basis that there will be no further call - up under the National Service Acts after the end of 1960 . Sandys acknowledged that the Army would have the greatest difficulty in making ends meet . It had about 164,000 regulars , of whom only some 80,000 were on more than a three - year engagement . The Government 's demographers advised that the largest regular army that could be recruited and sustained , under the conditions of full employment prevailing at that time , would be in the order of 165,000 , excluding the 14,600 Gurkhas and other locally recruited forces .
Idiom: kick the bucket (used idiomatically: no)
Three such grades will be suggested ( although it must be borne in mind that the reality is a continuum ) : these are inappropriateness , paradox and incongruity . Inappropriateness is diagnosed by the fact that there exists a cognitive synonym of the selector for which the selectee is a philonym . Thus , The aspidistra kicked the bucket exemplifies inappropriateness because replacing kick the bucket with its cognitive synonym die removes the dissonance . Those presuppositions of a selector , which , if not satisfied by the selectee , give rise to inappropriateness , will be termed the collocational restrictions of the selector . We shall speak of paradox when ( a ) there is no possibility of resolving dissonance by synonymous substitution , but ( b ) there exists a ( not too remote ) superordinate of either xenonym which is a philonym of the other .
Idiom: go to the wall (used idiomatically: yes)
Then he took his sandwich box and his thermos of coffee from his briefcase . They went onto the shelf behind his chair , between the photographs of Sara and of the two boys . Then he went to his wall safe , opened it with the second key on the ring attached by a chain to his trouser belt , and took out his papers . His Personal Air Sampler , the size of a small matchbox , hanging by a cord from his neck , banged on the desk top . It always banged on the desk top , each morning , before he remembered to tuck it below his tie .
Idiom: make or break (used idiomatically: yes)
But ex - Lotus grand prix driver Donnelly stresses that it will be ‘ a learning year’ for Owen . ‘ He is a talented young lad but give him time to find his feet,’ says Martin , whose team will be headed by Jason Plato . For Dino Morelli and Kevin McGarrity it is a make - or - break year . They go into their second season of FVL racing knowing they have to put the disappointments of last year behind them . Morelli has moved from Donnelly Racing to join the championship - winning David Sears team , and McGarrity is returning to Luby Racing , the team he started with last year before switching to Venom .
Idiom: make ends meet (used idiomatically: yes)
So as as a youth and a child she did n't take , No . do any work to make end ends meet ? Never done any work at all after being married no , never , no . She was a lace mender .
Idiom: hold water (used idiomatically: yes)
Many people believe that the skin is an impervious covering , the sole function of which is to keep the blood and organs in and water out . To suggest to them that the skin is capable of absorbing essential oils by diffusing them across the fine blood capillaries ( under the surface of the skin ) and into the main bloodstream is bound to meet with a certain amount of scepticism , if not ridicule . It is true that water and watery substances can not be absorbed into the bloodstream through the skin , although the upper layers will temporarily hold a little water . This is noticeable after a long soak in the bath ; the pads of your fingertips will take on a wrinkled appearance . However , René Gattefossé , the father of aromatherapy , established without a doubt that the skin can absorb fatty substances , provided that their molecular structure is small enough .
Idiom: to say the least (used idiomatically: yes)
Her husband , a clergyman , is the base of the novel , which starts with the gossip and rumours about his stealing , or not , depending on your point of view , a cheque for fifty pounds . She is a much more down - to - earth person than Madeline Vesey Neroni , and supports her husband through thick and thin , always doing what she feels is in his best interest . She manages her husband , who is rather eccentric to say the least , in a manner which suggests that he is officially still the head of the house . Trollope shows right from the start that Mrs. Crawley is a typically admirable person , when he writes : ‘ It is declared that a good wife is a crown to her husband , but Mrs. Crawley had been much more than a crown to him … she had been crown , throne and sceptre all in one’ .
Idiom: easy on the eye (used idiomatically: yes)
The sprig design wallpaper and co - ordinating curtains complete co - ordinating curtains complete the natural theme . From Laura Ashley the Botanica wallpaper in terracotta multi white costs £ 8.95 per roll , the Physic Garden fabric for the cushion and curtains starts at £ 10.95 per metre and border costs £ 4.95 per roll . Easy on the eye this room ( right ) was made to relax in . Subtle shades of beige from the Crown Expressions range have been ragged to cleverly break up the colour which is picked up in the marble fireplace , pale loose cotton covers and unbleached cotton curtains . Toast and Marmalade is the name of the simple cream earthenware breakfast set from Bridgewater .
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I was in Hull trying to get a group together . I think the band was called World Service or something . I was very poor and very pissed off . I felt like I had to be in a group.’ Roland Gift ACTOR / FINE YOUNG CANNIBAL