Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: win the day (used idiomatically: yes)
The exotic influence may stem from the fact that her dream garden would be one of the Moorish gardens of Southern Spain such as The Alhambra in Granada . But down to business … She admits that when it comes to perfecting a job out on site it 's definitely teamwork that wins the day : It 's the secret of a successful show home landscape . I work closely with Wimpey 's architects , engineers and the sales force to achieve the best results for each new development.’
Idiom: go public (used idiomatically: yes)
The firms created include General Electric , Eastman Kodak , International Harvester and U.S. Steel . The original shareholders were chiefly entrepreneurs who had set up their own firms during the previous half century , such as Cornelius Vanderbilt , John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie . Most had by then gone public , but still controlled their firms . There was no need to pit shareholders ' interests against management . The issues were simpler : what price to pay to the current proprietors ?
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: no)
That 's right two lots of soup and there 'll be , it wo n't be a full bowl for you tomorrow , but there 'll be about half a bowl unless you want it now ? No no , mm I have a word here belittle beginning with a D third letter from the end is an A , so I put depreciate Denigrate but the third letter has got to be an S , as it turns out now the third letter 's got to be an S
Idiom: on the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
One could not hope to find a better medium for escape than a pair of metaphorical , spiritual wings . Left in such lofty heights here the poem would be expected to end but ‘ The Garden ’ possesses a realism which is not found in Marlowe . He understands that the flight is only temporary and the bird must come to rest on solid ground again at some point just as the next stanza provides a landing area for his mind . Here he realises that even in Eden Adam had Eve and on earth women do exist and can not be ignored . His created paradise is still only temporal and whilst denying that his perfection can be reached in the presence of the temptation of women , he accepts the fact they are here to stay .
Idiom: close to home (used idiomatically: yes)
But I ca n't say stop the violence , because there 's always going to be violence . I think it 's going to be a long summer with a lot of killings . ' A full report on the LA riots appears on p72 , and there 's a news story that 's closer to home on p44 . Ketamine is being hyped by many as the new Ecstasy . It 's not .
Idiom: out of the woods (used idiomatically: yes)
Yet another new idea the Romans brought to Britain was the private bedroom . Some villas had several rooms set aside just for sleeping in , and in the larger houses there might even be spare rooms for guests . Beds varied in their design and some were raised platforms made out of wood or stone . In other houses , they used a wooden frame with leather straps or woven webbing fixed across it , in a similar way to a modern bed . Mattresses were laid on top of the platform or frame , or sometimes simply on the floor .
Idiom: feel the pinch (used idiomatically: yes)
Home leave in the Vaterland , austere and grey under the privations of war , all too often presented a sad contrast . Returning soldiers found the civil population too obsessed with their own hardships to try to understand what they were being subjected to at Verdun . Of all the major belligerents , Germany by 1916 was feeling the pinch of war most . There was no mistaking the deadly effectiveness of the British blockade . Everywhere there were shortages .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Can I have your name and address , please ? " " It 's Mrs Rumney , The Laurels . " The Laurels was a very nice house on the edge of the town standing back from the road in a large garden . Mrs Rumney herself let me in and I felt a shock of surprise at my first sight of her . It was n't just that she was strikingly beautiful ; there was an unworldly air about her .
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: yes)
There was free distribution of milk to the poor and broth to the sick in the villages nearby , and an almshouse was established , modelled on those which Nicholas had seen in Holland . In times of unemployment and distress flax and hemp for spinning were distributed to the villagers . On Sundays the ‘ psalm children’ came from the villages to be heard reciting a psalm which they had learnt by heart during the week . They were rewarded with a penny and a free meal . Sometimes the Ferrars were asked also to teach them their Catechisms .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
Meanwhile , Mr Bradley and his friends in City Hall were bent on playing politics . Mr Bradley , who is black , was said to have threatened to withdraw his support for RLA if Mr Ueberroth appointed to the board the mayor 's Latino rivals . For reasons of political correctness , RLA finished up with 80 members on its board . But Mr Ueberroth invited criticism . As a white millionaire Republican from the leafy groves well to the south of the city limits , it would have been remarkable if he had not .
Idiom: miss the boat (used idiomatically: yes)
What kind of talk is that?’ ‘ Terence says you 're a Provie gunman . That 's why you missed the boat.’ ‘ Whoever Terence is , Terence is a toe - rag . Provie gunman , my arse !
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: no)
Last week Katie Wood was living in the lap of luxury up in Wick . This week she 's off on her foreign travels again , destination Scandanavia to look at the secrets behind one of the world 's favourite toys . These have been around so long even I played with them when I was a boy and I 'll bet Kirsty did too . Well , we wo n't go into that just yet . That would give the game away .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
On the album , because of the studio , I had to pull it back a bit , but on the road in Europe and the States I can get up to these big , massive sounds . ' Lampi has known Emmett Chapman since he started playing music , and sees himself as the Stick 's embassador . ' In the long - run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . Writing music , the bottom line is that it 's a stringed instrument but rhythmically you are playing a keyboard . And of course you can barre this easily — power chords in 5 octaves , distorted bass .
Idiom: child's play (used idiomatically: yes)
Some organizations laid primary stress on preventive work and moral re - education , especially among working - class girls : for example the Anglican - run Girls ' Friendly Society , founded in 1874 , Ellice Hopkins ' Ladies ' Association for the Care of Friendless Girls , 1876 , and the Band of Hope Mission , 1879 . Other groups , like the Boys ' League of Honour and the Church Lads ' Brigade , addressed the leisure activities of working - class boys , setting up night schools and organizing sport and mutual improvement societies to counter the idleness which was the first step towards dissipation and self - abuse . Lady visitors were also co - opted in campaigns designed to instruct working - class mothers on practical morality m the home , supervising children 's play and paying careful attention to the bathing and sleeping arrangements of sons and daughters . The populism of the movement foregrounded a specific ideology of nationalism and national culture . Demands for the purification of national life were matters of importance which stood above class differences and the petty divisions of party politics .
Idiom: no smoke without fire (used idiomatically: yes)
It was when I got into the Law Courts and began a long series of litigation lasting twenty five years " . He never spoke a truer word ; upholding the honour of the union and his own reputation was a worthy enough objective , but it was also ruinously expensive and very largely self defeating . There is , as the British public commonly believes , no smoke without fire . On the handling of the union 's finances , Wilson 's enemies attacked him with equal vituperation . Why were there no financial records for 1887 and 1888 ?
Idiom: to the letter (used idiomatically: yes)
The Elektra is designed for the intermediate player and comes complete with racket bag . Genuine Graf I am writing in reply to all the letters you have printed over the past few months about Steffi Graf . Being one of her biggest fans I would like to say I am sick and tired of all the criticism that she receives . There have been people writing in asking for her fans to stop making excuses for her .
Idiom: go up in smoke (used idiomatically: yes)
Slow play is the other problem for World Cup that will have to be addressed . Competitors understandably try on every shot , but play at a funereal pace . This causes onlookers to despair , and TV schedules to go up in smoke , which ca n't please Philip Morris , the sponsor . What kind of shot will be fired in the war against slow play is hard to imagine . Gifted professional golfers have a duty to the game just as tournament administrators have a duty to defend the integrity of sport .
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: yes)
Jonathan began to laugh . I left my office chair to pine for my speedy return and took myself over to the window . The neon light outside flashed on and off the way some of them do and brought my profile into full play . ‘ Would you say I had a lantern jaw?’ I asked .
Idiom: over my dead body (used idiomatically: yes)
When the Speaker called for questioners , a forest of bodies shot up wanting to speak . There was Tim Janman , the MP for Thurrock . When he last spoke , Mr Janman said Britain would take one refugee from Hong Kong ‘ over my dead body’ . The Speaker — squeamishly — did not call him , leaving Mr Janman pawing the ground like a rabid ferret . It was , anyway , Norman Tebbit that everybody was waiting for .
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
What does it say on it ? It says absolute south bank I 'm absolutely really pissed o I 'm incredibly pissed off . You could at least take the E off , yeah . I , well that was where it came from I mean cos we were all sitting there and I said well why do n't we call it it was , it was that or Bailey 's Irish Cream and absolute we could get away with .
Idiom: on the game (used idiomatically: yes)
Date : Mon , 17 Jan 94 10:58:35 GMT Subject : Leeds , life and FFL Well having had chance to peruse the weekend papers and read the various match reports on the game I can only say that the season better end quickly so we can get the scum worshipping out of the way as quickly as possible . The Torygraph gave us the usual shite report of the game — it did however comment on the poor state of the pitch and also get Sgt Wilko to display his disgust on it 's current state . Apart from that the report mentions poor displays from Strach ( getting too old apparently ) , a quiet game from Macca , White stuck out on the right and crap from Deane .
Idiom: beat the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
As well as HP and OSF , Tivoli has Unix International and SunSoft Inc to its credit . … 7100 WORKSTATIONS ALREADY SHIPPING … Hewlett - Packard Co has managed to beat the clock on delivering its new single - chip 7100-based workstations . Limited quantities of the HP 9000 Models 715 , 735 and 755 , originally due this month , started going out the door in December . Everything , in fact , except the 50MHz 725 which because of non - standard packaging is n't scheduled to ship until the second quarter .
Idiom: make heavy weather of (used idiomatically: yes)
The official reason for the invasion was to protect some 600 medical students supposedly endangered by the coup . More likely , the episode was considered an opportunity to rid the island of Cuban influence and a chance to demonstrate US firepower just after 241 troops had been killed in Lebanon . US forces made heavy weather of overcoming 700 Cuban engineers , and the operation exposed glaring shortcomings . Troops had to use 1977 tourist maps that had such points of interest as nutmeg factories instead of the grid coordinates needed in battle . The US finally conquered the island after increasing the invasion force from 1,900 to 6,000 .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
Maggie had fallen asleep rejoicing . So now Maggie was not afraid of the dark , even though the great windows exposed her to the full moon and turned her own skin white and pearly — a reflection of reflected light . That light came originally from the same source as Fenna 's fire , from the heart of the golden star , from the sun itself — but it was light crashing around space at speeds which defy relativity , rolling like waves , bouncing like particles , rebounding off the dead desert of the cold moon and hurled thence , down through nearly a quarter of a million miles , forced through the steadily slowly moving liquid molecules of solid glass which made the windows . Maggie lay there on her back , stiff , formal , upon the great silken swirls of her Chinese bedspread , her feet tidily together , her arms spread wide , cruciform , and her rib cage rendered elongated and tortured by the moon shadows . The moon was at her feet and she was clothed by the sun and so she waited .
Idiom: in black and white (used idiomatically: yes)
If you could n't afford the luxury of foreign travel , then a lantern slide show or the extremely popular stereoscope could bring the world right into your parlour . Battalions of courageous , if not always creative photographers were dispatched to the ends of the earth to record breathtaking views , edifying ruins and exotic peoples for home viewing on the stereoscope . However , one ca n't help thinking that it must have been a source of frustration for these early travel photographers to be confronted by the riotous colours of the far east and Africa , knowing that it could only be reproduced in black and white . To give a ‘ true’ impression of the exotic splendour of these far off places , many photographers resorted to hand colouring their work . A practical system of colour photography had been eagerly searched for right from the beginning .
Idiom: behind bars (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I was stood outside me shop all night , and most were no more than kids.’ Eight months on and little has changed — if anything it is rather worse . Unemployment is up another 17 per cent ; more houses and shops are boarded up ; burglaries and joyriding continue — and if there is less ram - raiding it is only because 50 or so of the hardest cases are still behind bars . A food co - op which tried to replace the burned - out shops has been closed after several break - ins , and even the drop - in centre is burgled weekly , according to project worker Sheila Auld . There is a new phone box , ripped from the wall and lying on the floor of her office to prove it .
Idiom: out on a limb (used idiomatically: yes)
Overseeing the abseil yesterday was Tony Bolton , an instructor in the Territorial Army 's 8th ( Scottish ) Postal and Courier Regiment . The event was organised by Derrick Louis , who works for the Royal Mail at its offices in The Vineyards , Great Baddow , and is a member of the same regiment . Royal Mail secretary Sarah McKay going out on a limb for charity EA District News Frinton and Walton Floral club : In yesterday 's report of the 41st annual meeting of the Frinton and District Floral Club it was inadvertently left out that Mrs Dorothy Archer was elected as the new president .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
He said some other things , too , that I did not like to hear . And that started me thinking . Suppose a car came over the hill , and I ran out , and whoever was in it got out — suppose he was crazy ? Or suppose it was someone mean , or even cruel , and brutal ? A murderer ?
Idiom: out of sight (used idiomatically: yes)
I will tell Sarah you are coming to visit us on Wednesday afternoon . I am so glad to have met you again.’ He bowed slightly , then shouldered his camera and was soon out of sight . As they watched him go , Connor said , ‘ It makes you think . A few years ago he had a flourishing little business going in that shop of his , and now look at him .
Idiom: anything goes (used idiomatically: yes)
Last year , UN officials in the district of Dir , Pakistan 's most prolific opium - growing region , advised thousands of local farmers to grow onions instead of the lucrative poppies . Farmers were told they would make pots of money , more than the heroin processors in the neighbouring , largely tribal agency of Bajaur could hope to offer . Moreover , they were told that if anything went wrong the United Nations would guarantee them a market for their onions . Convinced by the foreigners — and the then high price of onions — the farmers took the plunge on a large scale . Whole villages went over to onions , and narcotics officials beamed with pleasure and satisfaction .
Idiom: go downhill (used idiomatically: no)
" It 's no fun waiting five or ten minutes to play every shot and to find two or three groups waiting on every tee . It 's no fun for the spectators either . " Our Tour officials just sit back and do nothing while a player is going downhill . Fining a player £ 100 is no good . Penalise them two shots and they 'd soon speed up .
Idiom: catch a cold (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's getting chilly . Take care that you do n't catch a cold .
Idiom: in tandem (used idiomatically: yes)
Your book reviewer in the February edition of Canoeist resorts to some very dangerous reasoning : ‘ I … would rather have polluted water I can share than pay for clean water to be used exclusively by others’ While the short - term expediency of such a position may be understood in the light of the desperate state of access to inland waters in England and Wales , as paddlers we must never allow ourselves to give any solace to the polluters . The campaign for access must run in tandem with the campaign for clean rivers . As paddlers we are often confronted with the filth that regularly gets tipped into our rivers . We need clean rivers even more than the rest of the population of our planet !
Idiom: never say die (used idiomatically: yes)
Better - heeled passengers penned a succession of sad descriptions of the flotsam and jetsam of Europe they encountered beached on many an American station . The women were often contrasted with the men and the children , the first representing the cares of the past and the present , while the husbands and little ones looked to the future , full of hope . One traveller wrote of ‘ swarthy men with bare arms splashing about in buckets’ , who seemed ‘ energetic and strong , confident and assured , with a bright never - say - die look upon their faces’ , while the women looked ‘ faded , wan , and anxious’ . Another thought the women looked ‘ tired and sad … dressed in gowns that must have been old on their grandmothers’ , while the children were dressed in ‘ garments of nondescript purpose and size , but were generally chubby , and gay , as they frolicked in and out among the baskets , bundles , bedding , babies’ chairs etc , piled waist - high on various parts of the platform ' . A poor German woman presented a pathetic sight kneeling before her chest , which had burst open .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
' Yes . Made some fatuous comment about using the smaller car . Well , we 'd got a library picture of him , so we put it in . ' ' And you are sure it was Marius Steen himself who spoke to you ? ' ' I do n't know .
Idiom: on the ropes (used idiomatically: yes)
They were sitting in the cabin of the dahabeeyah . It was a modern one , specially fitted out for the Prince , and had windows . Through the window beside him Owen could see a large rat sunning itself on a mooring rope . ' I had gathered the impression that the Prince had intended to be away only for a few days , ' said Mahmoud . ' That is true . '
Idiom: in my book (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah , and he bought bought bits and that , and I got my little book , you know , my pictures in have n't I ? Of what I want and that . I got ta have now cos we 'd have stick it in my little book ! Items I will require . Mm .
Idiom: kick the habit (used idiomatically: yes)
The full ban will be announced on Wednesday as part of a new health drive . Hospital shops will be told to clear cigarettes and tobacco from their shelves by December 31 . In the New Year , staff will be given advice on how to kick the habit . But hospitals will be allowed to set aside smoking rooms for them and patients who are unable to stop . Last year 110,000 people died and 254,000 were treated for smoking related illnesses , taking up 9,473 hospital beds every day .
Idiom: streets ahead (used idiomatically: yes)
Frank Ward CARLOS SAINZ put the seal on his late , late world title surge with a comprehensive victory in the Lombard RAC Rally yesterday . The 30-year - old Spaniard finished the final timed section near Dumfries 2min 16sec clear of second - placed Ari Vatanen and , most significantly , streets ahead of big rival Juha Kankkunen , who finished third . Sainz 's second RAC victory clinched the fiercely contested World Championship two years after he completed the same double in his Toyota Celica with co - driver Luis Moya . The man known as El Matador by his rivals , for his uncompromising attacking style behind the wheel , had won only three previous World Championship events this year , but those have included the last two rallies , Catalonia two weeks ago and now the RAC .
Idiom: in the saddle (used idiomatically: yes)
He would give the French one more shot before retreating back to the crossroads . Then , from behind him , from the north , he heard the thump of heavy drums and the jaunty thin notes of a flute playing . He twisted in the saddle to see a column of infantry at the crossroads of Quatre Bras . For a second Sharpe 's heart leapt , thinking that a battalion of Riflemen had arrived , then he saw the yellow crossbelts over the green coats and he knew he was seeing Prince Bernhard of Saxe - Weimar 's force of Nassauers . The German brigade officers were already spurring down the road towards Sharpe .
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
That was what threw me , probably . I mean , I 'd had the feeling before , a bit , the first couple of times I went up on the End , it was that much closer to the spindle . But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . I had the sun in my eyes from the windows one side and when I dipped a wing , the stars shining in the other . And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it .
Idiom: jump to conclusions (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ In which case she 's an imposter . And , damn it , yes : Daniel must have been killed to prevent the personation being discovered.’ ‘ We must avoid jumping to conclusions,’ replied Thiercelin cautiously . ‘ But it may well be so.’ ‘ Surely others in the company must know the truth?’
Idiom: get off the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
The return of a Conservative government in 1970 signalled a reversal of policies : the new government was anxious to disengage from both national and regional economic policies . Minimum government intervention was the new ideology . The economic recession and the sharp rise in unemployment of that year forced the Conservative government to change its policies before they had got off the ground . Regional policy was once again espoused and promoted . The Labour government of 1974 continued and expanded regional policies by establishing a multiplicity of job creation schemes in an effort to stem the rising tide of unemployment .