Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: for my money (used idiomatically: yes)
You know how much money we 're paying you . It 's a bloody big investment . And when I invest that much , I reckon to get value for my money.’ He thumped the table with his fist . ‘ I 'm paying for a star actor who can do the job of acting , not some old has - been whose memory 's gone.’
Idiom: recharge your batteries (used idiomatically: yes)
Socio - cultural factors these relate to things like our beliefs and notions and our aspirations . But probably the key one here is the belief that somehow if we go on holiday , we 're gon na come back totally refreshed . Again we talked about this last week , fifty weeks of the year you toil and you look forward to your holiday months in advance , you then take your holiday and somehow it recharges your batteries so that you 're ready to do battle again for the next fifty weeks . It 's claimed by many people that we live in a cycle where , if you like , we struggle to get through fifty weeks of the year to live for holidays recharge the batteries , then you go into it again . Incidentally on this one you 've got the lifestyle aspirations .
Idiom: one of those things (used idiomatically: yes)
and if a man is slightly stronger other way round so he can collect , collect more food and another argument which is that Yeah , it 's the , it 's the with the word natural is n't it that er you know people often use the word natural to mean good and right and therefore something you should do , but of course no not always I mean if I said to you death is natural , nobody here would think I was advocating suicide or that er we should n't have hospitals to try and save people 's lives I mean er when you say death is natural , what you mean is death is one of those things that we just have to put up with , we 'd rather we did n't but we 're all gon na have to face it in the end , some of us sooner than others er but erm but there we are . However if you say erm oh well you know erm boys will be boys that 's natural , tha that sounds as if you 're kind of making excuses for them and condoning them , so I think you 've got to be very careful about how you use the word natural and clearly it raises the whole question of how far you can , you can push erm cultural ideals against natural constraints an and what really is the issue . You see it may be that Dean 's right I must admit I think I , I agree with Dean I think he is right that the real problem is that natural selection may have fitted us by , as it were , rigging our emotional system .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
The transporter ended up on top of one of them . Male speaker The car transporter was travelling down the slip road of the A418 to join the A40 when it left the sliproad . It mounted the verge and entered the northbound carriageway colliding with two Rover cars heasding north towards Oxford Voice over
Idiom: in the short run (used idiomatically: no)
For Keynesians , persistently high unemployment rates are an indication that the labour market is not clearing , that there is chronic excess supply in the labour market , and that some action by the monetary and fiscal authorities may eventually be warranted . Rational expectations in a Keynesian context : a naive example In the preceding analysis the rational expectations criteria were introduced piecemeal within a context which assumed market clearing , at least in the fairly short run . This seemingly symbiotic link has been damaging to the more general applicability of these criteria in other contexts . Indeed , one of the reasons for the rapid absorption of the rational expectations hypothesis into new classical circles was that the underlying model of neoclassical economics in general and new classical macroeconomics in particular was the belief that this hypothesis conformed with the distinguishing feature of neoclassical theory , that of profit and utility maximization .
Idiom: carry the can (used idiomatically: yes)
He had changed but not bathed , and the new slogan on his T - shirt , ' Maggie rules , OK ? ' did not compensate for the stench of the great unwashed . Ralph ( Hyacinth had been swiftly urged to drop the ' Sir ' by her genial host ) called for him to be removed , by force if necessary , refusing to believe that so demotic a figure belonged to ' our great Party ' . Robertson was carrying a can of Tartan Ale from which he frequently refreshed himself , and in turn denied any knowledge of the great part Sir Ralph Grunte had played for so long in the counsels of the Tory Party . Hyacinth thought it best to leave with him at once , so as to cut short the unpleasantness . She insisted on a cab to the conference centre where the dance was being held , and when they arrived escape came in the figure of a party agent , who quickly took Hyacinth to one side , and asked whether she would like to start the dancing .
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: yes)
M J B three six seven X , well done . It 's a Jetta , a V W Jetta . Right , when you start your holiday been coming here now years and years and years and every year I show you that video , you know that video off by heart , you should do so when you play , play safe , that 's all I 'm saying , play safe . Enjoy yourself but play safe . If someone approaches you and you do n't know them , someone you do n't know is a stranger .
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: no)
Shame on the Ordnance Survey for giving it the name of Ingleborough Hill on some of their maps : it is every inch a mountain and , although not the highest in England as was once thought and is overtopped by many others , one of the grandest . The top thousand feet of height is a superstructure composed mainly of millstone grit and shales , with a summit fringe of low cliffs decorated in places by purple saxifrage . It rests on a massive plinth of carboniferous limestone around the 1300-ft contour , this being based at valley level on impervious rock . The summit of Ingleborough is a place of legend and history . There are still traces of hut circles attributed to an Iron Age occupation and , at the time of the Roman invasion , the local patriots , the Brigantes , established a hill fort to resist the foreign legions ; an ancient rampart wall , built around the perimeter of the summit and almost half a mile in circumference , has survived the centuries although it is now crumbled and has many gaps .
Idiom: kill two birds with one stone (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah . Nasty thing . But I thought well , While I I 'll ma kill two birds with one stone , and I 'll er come Yeah . up and see him .
Idiom: blow someone's mind (used idiomatically: yes)
I want to be accepted . I want to reach people . I want to blow people 's minds . ' The man is on a mission and he intends to take no prisoners . He lives in Newcastle and he is 21 years old .
Idiom: catch fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Scandinavian seamen 's unions called for an end to the use of flags of convenience in Scandinavian waters ( ships ' safety precautions being the responsibility of the country with which they were registered ) . This disaster focused media attention on other ferry fires . One man died on board the Reine Mathilde when it caught fire on April 9 , sailing between Caen in France and Portsmouth , England , although not directly as a result of the fire ; arson was not suspected . On the same day the B & I ferry Norrona caught fire en route from Pembroke in Wales to Rosslare in Ireland ; two men suspected of arson were detained and later released on bail . MIDDLE EAST — ARAB WORLD
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: no)
Annie now embarked on her remarkable public career , first as an associate of the atheist Charles Bradlaugh in the National Secular Society , then as a Fabian socialist and strike leader ( of the London matchgirls ) , and as one of the first members of the London School Board . An outstanding speaker and prolific journalist , she displayed tremendous courage in defying public opinion on several issues , including birth control . In the late 1880s , dissatisfied with atheism , she came under the influence of Madame Blavatsky of the Theosophical Society . After Blavatsky died in 1891 , Annie became ‘ Chief Secretary of the Inner Group of the Esoteric Section’ and , later , the society 's President . Drawn to India by her spiritual and political interests , she spent much of the rest of her life there .
Idiom: into thin air (used idiomatically: yes)
I know how to spell that word now the five penny piece disappeared down the drain Into thin air disappeared and number thirty nine companion , companion Companion and then number forty
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
At the De Belvings ' , she 'd levelled smouldering , smoky gazes at young Lorimer over a black feather fan , until he obeyed her wordless summons and approached her . Then she pretended to be a mute — she always invented some oddness about herself when consorting with the preening rich boys of the city . While her husband occupied himself with making mental notes as to his proposed victim 's physical constitution and disposition of character , Cleo amused herself with Lorimer , communicating with him by pulling delightful impish faces and fluttering her hands . Lorimer had been enchanted by her apparent demure silence and , later , following a particularly emphatic hand gesture on Cleo 's part , had escorted her outside . While Wakelate Sinister furtively discussed business with Lorimer 's father in an inner office , Lorimer had gratefully coupled with Cleo up against one of the cold , marble statues that lined a colonnaded walk along the back of the house .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Tony Cascarino had a close range effort blocked by Chris Woods after 21 minutes , but Chelsea finally drew level when Gavin Peacock chested the ball down for Lee to shoot past the England keeper . Cascarino should have done better when he shot weakly on the turn , but was unlucky two minutes later when he struck the bar with a superb volley . Peacock had the ball in the net after 65 minutes but the effort was disallowed . Mark Bright Tony Cascarino
Idiom: go through the motions (used idiomatically: yes)
Her self - respect ? Giles 's taunts about her sexual naïveté had stung . Though he had gone through the motions of caring she saw now with the painful wisdom of hindsight that , despite all his assurances of love and respect for her , he had really only been interested in his own pleasure , pursuing it with all the subtlety of a bulldozer . With Clive the situation had never arisen . If it had , she would have handled it with a decisiveness that left no room for misunderstandings .
Idiom: kiss of life (used idiomatically: yes)
without their lady of the lamp . You 've lost count of the times you 've given the kiss of life ; still working as a local pool attendant , were n't you once a lifeguard by the ocean ?
Idiom: wear the trousers (used idiomatically: yes)
bother them quite so much . Erm recently this er Asian dress has become very popular er , you know , in India it 's a country . Punjabi 's , Punjabi women wear these baggy trousers and er . The women used to wear sari and I have never seen a lately with anything but sari , but now they have started wearing the Punjabi dress . So it has become a fashion now .
Idiom: cap in hand (used idiomatically: no)
To throw in the towel would mean the end of misery , a shower , clean sheets , good food and reunion with my family after the months I had spent in training camp . But I doggedly believed that things would change , that they could only get better , yet when I reached the outcrop I wailed with despair . Exhausted and confused , I came , cap in hand , busking for help and half sang , half cried ‘ What a friend we have in Jesus’ . On the other side was another dust bowl identical to the last . I had to retrace my steps and double back around areas that proved too soft only to find that everywhere else was as bad .
Idiom: in cold blood (used idiomatically: yes)
Luftwaffe pilots . They might not have been able to shelter from the bombs . They would have been murdered in cold blood . He shuddered at the thought . Tonight , and indeed on all the missions he had flown , the destruction and death was partly his fault .
Idiom: turn the corner (used idiomatically: yes)
There is a small harbour , and skeletons of boats decorate the stony beach , the road coming alongside after passing between the terraced cottages of the village . THE BROCHS OF GLEANN BEAG The road beyond Glenelg turns a corner into Gleann Beag , reaching a junction where it crosses a river bridge and a minor road continues up this lovely valley . This no - through - road should certainly be followed , preferably on foot . It is an avenue of delight between fragrant hedges and bonny braes and in two miles leads to the ancient broch of Dun Telve , one of the best preserved of the hundreds of brochs in Scotland .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
2 . Deep learning — like knowing how to dress yourself or clean your teeth or ride a bicycle , which you learned to do when young and which have entered your consciousness at a deeper level so that you rarely think consciously about them because you engage in these activities daily and apparently intuitively . All too often , students engage in study that only results in shallow or superficial learning of the first type — for example , the rote learning of names , dates , superficial factual data and characteristics that you hold in your short - term memory just long enough to pass an examination and that are then rapidly forgotten , because they have not been internalized — perhaps because our psyches know they are not of much use in the long run . Our psyches are simply refusing to be overloaded . Deep learning , on the other hand , is the kind you take with you through the rest of your life : like Paul of Tarsus 's conversion on the road to Damascus , or the kind of insights vouchsafed to Jean - Jacques Rousseau when he fell asleep under his tree of knowledge .
Idiom: up to scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
Scottish Homes want to transfer ownership of their West Lothian properties to another landlord and an extensive consultation programme is being carried out before a final decision is taken . Painters face ban COUNCILLORS have decided a city painting firm should be banned from working for the district for two years because their work has not come up to scratch . The council 's technical services committee agreed to recommend that the company , W.H.Spence , be removed from the list of approved contractors for the authority . The firm are in the last two months of a three - year maintenance contract for work in the Capital 's central area , including the repainting of the Ross Fountain in Princes Street Gardens .
Idiom: lend a hand (used idiomatically: yes)
Graham has no plans to fly this aircraft at present and will put it to one side as soon as assembly and testing is complete . Work continues apace at Southern Air on the restoration of the first aircraft , for which the civil registration G - OMIG has been reserved . Co - operation by the UK Civil Aviation Authority has been excellent and MiG operators around the world are lending a hand with their experiences . Firefly project REAR FUSELAGE section of Fairey Firefly I PP566 has been recovered by members of the South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum ( SYAM ) at Firbeck .
Idiom: for Africa (used idiomatically: no)
Pedigree Charolais heifer helps boost African project A PEDIGREE Charolais heifer has been donated by Harry and Jean Marguess of Muckamore for the ‘ Farm for Africa’ project , part of an overall drive spearheaded by Magheralin Parish Church to buy a 100-acre farm in Uganda and stock and equip it . Many organisations and businesses have joined the project and already Automart Livestock have organised a ‘ Farm for Africa’ sale of dairy stock . Harry Marguess says : ‘ Our own sale was being held at Automart and when we heard the ‘ Farm for Africa’ event was the following day we decided to donate a heifer to this very worthy cause.’ The Marquess production sale will offer 80 head of quality Charolais which will include young bulls , cows with calves and heifers .
Idiom: get on someone's nerves (used idiomatically: yes)
She do n't remind you of anybody she is who she is ! No I meant one of the film actresses that has it done that way or something , Well it was long and it was straggly and it got on my nerves ! Oh ! So I thought I 'll have it cut to this length .
Idiom: by the same token (used idiomatically: no)
Let no one tell me that the principles of democratic socialism — of which the NHS is a fine example — are dated . They are , as in this comparative example , often ahead of their time . By the same token we must strengthen our communities and our sense of community . The undermining of local government ( which is part of the deliberate down - grading of all alternative power systems to the central State ) means that communities are being weakened by having no means to advance their own ambitions and to tackle their own problems in their own way . That is why I urge a renaissance of local government in the context of a more pluralistic and diverse society .
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ And here are my best wishes to the O'Malley family . May they remain in good health and continue to prosper.’ He turned his head . ‘ And to you , too , Malachi.’ The two men raised their glasses in salute towards the priest and sipped reverently .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ South , then they turned east . About twenty miles out . ‘ ‘ Did you see who got on board ? It 's important . Otherwise , I 'll let my partner deal with you.’
Idiom: at a pinch (used idiomatically: yes)
She suggested calling in on the local correspondent to see what his views were . He was out . In the television shop , probably the one place at a pinch where there might have been a red light , Bryan Whitehead said there had been an occasion when Hawes became confused with females of dubious character . ‘ It was once when Christopher Timothy the television vet opened our fete,’ he said . ‘ He drew attention to it .
Idiom: keep a straight face (used idiomatically: yes)
It stated that crime rose 16pc over 1991 to 5.3 million offences . Mr Patten , the Home Office Minister , referred to this figure as ‘ a welcome slowdown’ . How can you say that and keep a straight face ? Whales and seals that are washed up dead on our coasts have nothing to do with pollution . As the election gets underway watch out for more of this Doublethink , particularly on television .
Idiom: sink or swim (used idiomatically: yes)
What , cast the poor remains into the Severn when he took them from the grave?’ ‘ What else?’ said Adam , low - voiced . ‘ He threw him in there newly dead , and Benedetta with him living , to sink or swim together . John the Fletcher took them out of the water and out of his power for a while , but do you think a man like Isambard would ever forget or forgive the crossing of his decree ? What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting - place ?
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: yes)
The waning popularity of polyphonic song , whether for voices only or for voices doubled by instruments , during the first half of the seventeenth century , is remarkable all over Europe . There was of course no sudden switch to solos and duets with continuo or other independent instrumental accompaniment , yet by the mid - century the old forms of madrigal , polyphonic chanson , and Lied were obsolescent . As the Roman polymath Pietro della Valle observed in 1640 madrigals were now not often sung , ‘ nor is there occasion to sing them , since people prefer to hear singing freely by heart with instruments in the hand rather than to watch four or five companions singing with book in hand at a table like schoolboys ( che ha troppo del scolaresco e dello studio)’ . However as late as 1668 another Roman , Mario Savioni ( c. 1608–1685 ) brought out a book of five - part Madrigali morali e spirituali , explaining that they were to be sung each at the end of one of his previously published Concerti morali and adding that he had ‘ taken care to unite together the aria and the madrigal so as to conform with the character of the concertos’ . The movement of the tide is well illustrated by the successive books of Monteverdi 's madrigals .
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
The causes of the crisis can not be properly understood without recognizing the euro ’s fatal flaw : By creating an independent central ~ bank , member countries have become indebted in a currency that they do not control . At first , both the authorities and market participants treated all government bonds as if they were riskless , creating a perverse incentive for banks to load up on the weaker bonds . When the Greek crisis raised the specter of default , financial markets reacted with a vengeance , relegating all heavily indebted eurozone members to the status of a Third ~ World country over - extended in a foreign currency . Subsequently , the heavily indebted member countries were treated as if they were solely responsible for their misfortunes , and the structural defect of the euro remained uncorrected . Once this is understood , the solution practically suggests itself .
Idiom: mark time (used idiomatically: yes)
Enough has been written about it . There are other signs that the Greeks began to notice the peculiarities of Roman social life and of Roman behaviour in international affairs . True enough , the famous set of Roman values — fides , constantia , severitas , gravitas , dignitas , auctoritas , etc . etc . — was discovered for the first time by German professors during the First World War , and helped their pupils to mark time while Hitler was deciding what to do with the classics . But a few characteristic Roman features were truly appreciated by the Greeks in the third century B.C. Roman fides found its way into the coins of Locri about 274 B.C. ( B. V. Head , Historia Numorum , 104 ) ; the devotio of Decius at Sentinum apparently attracted the attention of the contemporary historian Duris ( 76 F 56 Jacoby ) ; the exemplary rebuke of a Roman matrona to her son was reported by Callimachus in his Aetia ( fr . 107 Pfeiffer ) .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I can tell you nothing more.’ ‘ Not even how you came to follow such a man?’ Lina opened her eyes once more . She looked infinitely tired , infinitely ancient , infinitely sane . ‘ Not even that,’ she said .
Idiom: second childhood (used idiomatically: yes)
Paradoxically , it is because the adventure story is essentially youthful as well as mature that it is a valuable part of adult literature . Yet this , too , is often seen not as a value but as an additional reason for not taking the genre seriously . The accusation that the adventure story offers an escape for adult readers implies that the escape is into a kind of second childhood or , at the least , suggests a limited expectation of a novel 's purpose . Michael Innes 's analysis of one of his characters , a creator of best - selling crime novels , expressed this view by implication : His imagination was of the refrigerating sort from which the fantasies of boyhood can step with convincing freshness ; and it was this quality , no doubt , that made the stories the instant and almost embarrassing success that they were .