Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: on the ropes (used idiomatically: no)
And by the time they came back ( yes , it was Crete : I 'd guessed , but he had n't flickered , the duplicitous bastard ) , I knew I was in love . I got a sun-'n ' -sex postcard from Heraklion , worked out which day they 'd be returning , telephoned all possible airlines and went to meet them at Gatwick . When the indicator board clacked out the information BAGGAGE IN HALL against their flight , a circle of bell - ringers in my stomach all heaved on their ropes at the same time , and the terrible clangour they set off in my skull could only be stilled by a couple of stiff ones at the bar . Then I waited at the barrier , the motley flesh around me all pulsing with welcome . I saw them before they saw me .
Idiom: off the wall (used idiomatically: yes)
The boy 's run up was limited by the ditch behind , but this time he managed to plant a foot on the wall and grab the Corporal . As he came to the parapet , the APC turned down the road . I dropped off the wall . Simultaneous with that , the malais opened fire , hitting the boy still on the wall . The impact of the rounds knocked him over on top of Kaptan .
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
Er again after you do that very same thing erm you know jingle your change and one of them he said that I reckon you got three pound eighty . He reckons he 's got six pounds you know and it 's just so distracting . Keep your hands out of your pocket handcuffed behind your back Yeah and what , what , what do we think she means that you know what do you stuffy , yeah ? Pompous .
Idiom: once in a while (used idiomatically: yes)
I nodded . " Well , you know how it is , things that do n't concern you , in the papers and that you do n't always read " em , do you ? But with Son being here , talking about it once in a while when she gets a bit down , and do n't we all — well , I feel like it all happened last week , and what 's more as if I was in the middle of it . Fair makes your hair stand up , the way she tells it . Kids making their own bombs and chucking"em into the tanks , getting theirselves blown up … those lousy Russians , sound worse than the Jerries , if you ask me .
Idiom: do someone proud (used idiomatically: yes)
I never expected to start a game,’ he said . Surprise ‘ I enjoyed myself immensely and I hope I did myself proud .’ Flowers , a surprise call - up a month ago when the squads for the World Cup double in Poland and Norway were announced , so much looked the part as Chris Woods 's stand - in that he may have leapfrogged up the goalkeeping queue . But with the record books littered with frustrated goalkeepers who lived in the shadows of a rival , Flowers is right to savour this moment .
Idiom: pass the buck (used idiomatically: yes)
But making a bed once a day is social . How often do patients have to wet their beds , or how inflamed must their skin be , to justify nursing care ? The opportunities in this model for passing the buck between the NHS and social services would be legion . Clearly social drinking … but what happens when she wo n't drink ? A practical solution
Idiom: serve someone right (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm . she did n't . Serve you right , you should pa have asked her there and then !
Idiom: not just a pretty face (used idiomatically: yes)
Or make three different dates for it . Oh yes . Oh I 'm not just a pretty face I do n't remember what dates it has , make up three appropriate dates So they 're both coming at half past twelve , yeah ? Roughly will they come in three different cars ? Next week 's dress rehearsal .
Idiom: sit on the fence (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Red or white ? Let 's settle for rosé.’ They always said that : it was somehow symptomatic of PR : sit on the fence — never upset anybody . Halfway through lunch , this blonde , baby - faced girl started to kill herself with anxiety because she saw someone she knew but could not remember their name . She flapped and fretted for the remainder of the meal .
Idiom: sink or swim (used idiomatically: no)
In spite of its complexity , transition passed by leaving few students , teachers or office staff feeling perplexed . This might have been due to the support from the student management system . Or perhaps the transition adventure was just a ripple on the ocean of complexity in which all newcomers to the Course must quickly learn to sink or swim . Or both . There are some registry subsystems that contain key features of expert systems .
Idiom: at a stretch (used idiomatically: yes)
At the clearing stations the backlog of even the partially repaired mounted alarmingly as , with the constant demand of the Voie Sacrée supply route , all too few vehicles could be spared for use as ambulances . British Red Cross sections appeared on the front ( among them the poet Laurence Binyon ) , and later American volunteers . Though the crews drove 24 hours at a stretch , unable to wear gasmasks because they fogged up , still there seemed to be more wounded than the ambulances could hold . Meanwhile in the overcrowded , squalid base hospitals , those who had survived so far were dying like flies , their beds immediately refilled . Clyde Balsley , an American very badly wounded with the ‘ Lafayette Squadron’ noted in contrast that the miracles of science after the forced butchery at Verdun … made a whole year and a half at the American Hospital pass more quickly than six weeks in the [ French]hospital at Verdun .
Idiom: pure and simple (used idiomatically: yes)
If London had been given time to study these , it would have seen that Smurfit is looking well placed in a world market notoriously prone to cyclical demand . The philosophy that if it goes down in the US it must be going up in Europe has meant that Smurfit is looking to Europe as its main engine for growth in the months to come , when it must decide how to spend the $ 1bn cash raised from the recent financial restructuring with Morgan Stanley . Shareholders will be circulated with details of this ‘ in a matter of weeks’ , according to yesterday 's statement , and they will be interested to hear the details of what was dismissed by London as a ‘ piece of financial engineering , pure and simple.’ That did no good for the Smurfit price in Dublin , and maybe the nonchalance with which the group now treats the Square Mile reflects the hurt it felt at that piece of analysis . In its defence , Smurfit would say that it is an international company and it should pay as much intention to its US hinterland as it does to London .
Idiom: plain Jane (used idiomatically: yes)
Then , when Warners sued her for breach of contract , she reluctantly agreed to return to the studio corral while making certain that the trade press was fully apprised of her frustration . As it happened , the gamble paid off handsomely . The studio almost immediately cast her in a cycle of prestigious ( if often meretricious)‘women 's pictures’ , including Edmund Goulding 's Dark Victory ( 1939 ) , which had her , in its famous climactic scene , walk upstairs to die in solitude with all the dignified serenity of an elephant trundling off to its ancestral graveyard ; Michael Curtiz 's The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( also 1939 ) , in which she flaunted the Virgin Queen 's ( and her own ) baldness as the ultimate emblem of great , self - abasing character acting ; and , of course , Irving Rapper 's sudsy , multi - Kleenex tearjerker Now , Voyager ( 1942 ) , in which her repressed , plain - Jane spinster blossoms overnight into chic , radiant , cigarette - tapping womanhood . Of this last film the Argentinian fabulist Jorge Luis Borges laconically wrote : ‘ The vigorous message of Now , Voyager is : When Bette Davis is disfigured , she is less beautiful.’ In the late Forties , just as her career was sinking to its lowest ebb , and an English critic commented of her notorious egomania that ‘ only bad films are good enough for her’ , she returned in triumph with one of her most brilliant performances , as the ageing but feisty actress Margo Channing who , to her emotional and professional cost , learns All About Eve ( directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz , 1950 ) .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
From her , most of us acquired good French accents . We had many school clubs and societies . I joined the Arts Club , with its opportunities for play - readings and occasional plays for performance to school or parents ; the Music Society , which had weekly meetings too ; and the school branch of the League of Nations Union . Memories of that now vanished organisation are sad to recall , for as the international situation grew graver , and the shadow of war began to fall on all of us , enthusiasm waned . From the time of the Anschluss in March 1938 , until the outbreak of war in September 1939 , hopes of peace gradually faded and we began to prepare for the grim reality .
Idiom: come unstuck (used idiomatically: yes)
Maybe the missing contract had finally appeared and Bobby Anscombe had n't liked its provisions . It must have been something like that ; Charles was beginning to understand the way Paul Lexington worked . But if he had tried to dupe the wily Bobby Anscombe as easily as the innocent Malcolm Harris , it was no wonder that he had come unstuck . But , like the eternal Wobbly Man , the young producer bounced back . ‘ Now this is a pity , but it 's not a disaster .
Idiom: on the button (used idiomatically: yes)
This means that the best solution is to upgrade to Release 3.1 + . However there is a solution to your question about how to deactivate the rogue 1 - 2 - 3 . If you click on the control button in the top left hand corner of the window the control menu will appear . Select the Settings option and then Terminate in the dialog box that appears . Alternatively double click anywhere on the desktop to evoke the TaskManager and select the 1 - 2 - 3 task and click on the terminate button .
Idiom: blow someone's cover (used idiomatically: yes)
Before Rainbow can swallow and draw breath , Goldie supplies the appropriate responses . I love it . ‘ Do n't you dare blow her cover,’ I warn , ‘ or I 'll make you stand on your head and sing ‘ We Wish You a Merry Christmas’in the middle of the dancefloor.’ ‘ Relax,’ says Rainbow . ‘ I would n't dream of it .
Idiom: fly a kite (used idiomatically: yes)
It was no longer necessary to pretend they knew less or more than they did . Their obligation to be honest with each other outweighed for the first time whatever they owed to anyone else . They parked near Camp Hill and walked out aimlessly across the heath amidst the estranged fathers flying kites with their sons and the headscarfed ladies exercising their labradors . Everyday preoccupations had never seemed more remote , the present never more real , than now . ' I suppose you think I should tell the police , ' said Charlotte , after describing the telephone call with which her niece 's kidnappers had broken their silence .
Idiom: win the day (used idiomatically: yes)
He was in the hot seat for more than three hours . He had gone to the podium at eight o ‘ clock . By noon he had obtained Nate 's approval and had won the day . The Merseyside convener was aware that President Nate Cocello was coming to the UK for talks with British and European management . The grapevine always flashed advance notice of such events , though it was never hard to guess when a VIP visit was imminent because of the frenzied housekeeping activity at each plant which always preceded it .
Idiom: one of those things (used idiomatically: no)
Yeah , fourth year and upwards . In art and design at lunchtimes and that and Yes , it 's one of those er , things you do in so , in sort of spare time at Yeah . school ?
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: no)
At the same time , partisan readers tended to claim that their newspaper was more favourable to their own party than it appeared to be in the eyes of other readers . So generally clear perceptions of strong press bias were overlaid by a tendency for readers to claim that their paper was relatively sympathetic to their own political viewpoint . Right - wing readers of a right - wing paper were more likely than left - wing readers of that same paper to claim that their paper was biased towards the right — though a majority of both left- and right - wing readers typically agreed that their papers were biased and agreed on the direction of that bias . Instead of reacting against the bias in their chosen paper , readers tended ( at the margin ) to defend their paper ( if it was biased against their party ) or even to glory in its bias ( if it was biased in favour of their party ) . The difference between public responses to perceptions of bias in the press and on television was reflected in the complex relationship between voters ' allegations of bias and their ratings of the ‘ usefulness’ of the press and television news .
Idiom: run riot (used idiomatically: yes)
There is even the suggestion of a ‘ conspiracy’ , that the authorities manipulated these troubles , realising the existence of conflicts between Chinese and African students and hoping to divert attention away from the disastrous economic forecasts for the coming year . Whipping up nationalistic sentiment is not difficult to do with Chinese students because of an underlying layer of patriotic sentiment and if there is any substance to this ‘ conspiracy’ theory , the African students may indeed have been used as a diversion . Certainly , a good deal of anti - foreigner sentiment was unleashed , first of all in Nanjing and then other major cities , and traditional prejudices were allowed to run riot for the Christmas period . The Africans were described as ‘ noisy’ because they liked to party and sing and dance . They were also accused of being sexually promiscuous and of leading young Chinese girls astray .
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
Tenants ' association club on the Sparrow Farm estate … it is alleged that people who had been drinking at the club attacked the family in the off - licence opposite PHOTOGRAPHS : KENNETH SAUNDERS Bitter questions of racial violence Ramesh K and his family were hounded out of their Feltham off - licence by 18 months of abuse and attacks , during which time they became pawns in a battle between the local council , the police and two rival race relations bodies . David Rose reports . AT SPARROW Farm , a bleak post - war council estate in Feltham , deafeningly close to the runways of Heathrow Airport , the off - licence in the little parade of shops has changed hands again . Ramesh K , who took on the lease two years ago , has sold up and moved out . In the preceding 18 months , Mr K and his family were repeatedly attacked .
Idiom: steer clear of (used idiomatically: yes)
I have seen less of Olazabal because , for some reason , I do not find him an easy player to watch . Everyone knows how good he is , or nearly is , but somehow he remains a more remote figure . Bernhard Langer , who has steered clear of New Orleans , is keeping his cards close to his chest while the best the rest can hope for is a high enough finish in order to be invited back next year . Lyle , as a former winner , has no worries on that score . But nothing much has happened this year that suggests he is about to start firing .
Idiom: take heart (used idiomatically: yes)
The church throughout its history has been too preoccupied with building Christian civilisation at the expense of ‘ realising’ the kingdom . I do think , however , that we should hit the Enemy in the public world , and even set up outposts and command centres there , as long as we do not forget that the kingdom can not be built as a nation state or a political empire . There is more bad news to come , but let us pause for a moment to take heart . While it may be true that we Christians are living in our separate and little private worlds , this is not to say that nothing significant is happening . On the contrary , a great deal is happening .
Idiom: behind bars (used idiomatically: yes)
One day , if only by the laws of probability , the rumours will be proved right . The word here — many talk but few are willing to be quoted — is that Nelson Mandela will be the last to go , and that he is working closely with the government in arranging a timetable for the releases . Those on the list are : Mr Sisulu , sentenced with Mr Mandela to life imprisonment in the ‘ Rivonia Trial’ of 1964 ; four other Rivonia triallists -Raymond Mhlaba , Elias Motsoaledi , Andrew Mlangeni , Ahmed Kathrada , Wilton Mkwayi and the oldest of them all , 80-year - old Oscar Mpheta , a trade union leader who has been behind bars since 1980 , and whose whose sentence runs out next year . His son Themba , who is studying at Liverpool University , said yesterday on the telephone that his family had been reliably informed that he and Mr Sisulu would be out this month . According to sources close to Mr Mandela himself , the first two men out will be Wilton Mkwayi and Elias Motsoaledi , a very influential member of the ANC old guard with positions of leadership both in the union movement and in the ANC 's military wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe .
Idiom: beat about the bush (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ What 's on your mind , lad?’ Plunge in , Mungo thought . No point in beating about the bush . ‘ Have you got any old Christmas tree decorations , antique ones , by any chance?’ Jos frowned .
Idiom: chew the cud (used idiomatically: yes)
Crashing antlers . In mid - battle they break for a bit of a graze . After chewing the cud for a minute or two , they continue the fight . You 're no different . Playing for time .
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
It was in this situation that the Bolsheviks assumed power . Until the start of the civil war , in the summer of 1918 , there was a relative lull in the social conflicts during which the Bolsheviks shared power with the Left Social - Revolutionaries and at the same time attempted to obtain the collaboration of some sections of the bourgeoisie and industrial managers in their efforts to revive industry . There was no immediate move to take into state ownership the major manufacturing industries , although there was a vigorous campaign to extend what was called workers ' control , i.e. the supervision of owners and managers by rank - and - file committees . The Bolsheviks , on the insistent urging of Lenin , moved with caution in relation to nationalisation during this period . It is true that certain measures of nationalisation had been undertaken in the first months of Soviet government — for example , the Merchant Marine had been taken over in January 1918 and the sugar industry nationalised in May of that year — but the main efforts had been directed towards a stabilisation and regularisation of the tottering economy on the existing basis of ownership .
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: yes)
The book is a mixture of varying successes and failures . Although very often his actions have little or no practical effect , they certainly succeed in raising public support . In the long term , manoeuvring an inflatable dinghy between whales and whalers is not alone a dramatic event as far as the world 's whales are concerned although , of course , it temporarily delays a killing . The same goes for diving in front of a seal pup to protect it from the sealers . But , on the other hand , the public support such actions encourage can be overwhelming — and surely do nothing but good .
Idiom: dig deep (used idiomatically: yes)
I 'm very grateful to all those who support us , both by donating prizes and money and by giving up their time to help us . Without them , I do n't think we could buy the hospital the vital equipment it needs . CONTINUING the Cockerton theme set by the Alma , Fountain of the Week digs deep into the flowerbeds of the village green and comes up with an historic geezer . The red granite fountain was originally in Stanwick Park on the estate of the Duke of Northumberland , and so its early history is unknown . The Stanwick sprinkler officially became the gusher on the green on August 1 1924 when the Mayoress , Mrs R Loraine , turned on the water .
Idiom: pull someone's leg (used idiomatically: no)
Certain spiders also use it as a last resort . Giant water bugs may go rigid when taken from the water and may hold this ' frozen ' posture for as long as fifteen minutes . Some species of small beetles behave in a similar fashion , pulling all their legs in close to their bodies and lying absolutely still . The larger , longicorn beetles use a modified technique . When approached they may stay absolutely motionless and allow themselves to be picked up .
Idiom: give and take (used idiomatically: yes)
Why should she pay two lots of tax ? Why should she , on her tiny , shaky income , be supporting him ? The fine talk in the sessions about love and understanding , give and take , began to wither on the vine . The crunch is money — and I 've never met a rich man or woman yet who did n't have wonderfully imaginative , sophisticated , ways to justify hoarding yet a little more and a little more . Leaving the peasants in the dark
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: yes)
Bernard Levin He was educated at Eton and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he obtained a third class in the classical tripos in 1869 . At Cambridge he came under the influence of Frederick Denison Maurice [ q.v.]who , it is clear , shaped his life , starting with Headlam 's resolve to take holy orders . His parental home was strictly evangelical , though not narrow or severe , but Headlam rejected with horror the doctrine of eternal punishment . The ensuing clash was a symbol and a foretaste of the countless later occasions on which he challenged orthodox opinions , both religious and secular .
Idiom: chapter and verse (used idiomatically: no)
free to come and go and er there is a contribution that 's held at the back , but here in , in the talk it 's highlighting their various ways , this is one of them that we can keep spiritually awake is by being aware of the need for financial contributions , Jehovah has done much for us through his organization and we can show love for him by full support with our time and finances and then another one look stay awake by showing love to you and act loyal sometimes it 's easier to show love to some in the congregation than others , we naturally have an affinity for one another and certain types of personalities seemed to gel with others do n't they ? And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? We mentioned about determining not to miss a single spiritual meal , Matthew chapter five and verse three well known to us all I think it 's in those as some people call them sermon on the chapter five of Matthew , happier those conscious of the spiritual needs since the kingdom of the heavens belongs to them and we 're encouraged to do that are n't we ?
Idiom: pop the question (used idiomatically: yes)
Kevin has bought a diamond ring and is going to pop the question to Kim tonight .
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: yes)
She sat at the feet of Wyatt . The next year , 1990 , was even worse for their flickering marriage . Andrew was away at sea for weeks on end , while Fergie , pregnant with Eugenie , went out of control . She shot off on holiday , spending time with Wyatt … and feeling sorry for herself that her husband was away so much . At the end of the year Wyatt was a special guest of Fergie at the Buckingham Palace ball to celebrate the birthdays of the Queen Mother , Princess Anne and Andrew .