Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: clean house (used idiomatically: yes)
The Dove is managed by owners Peter and Deborah Kalinke . PEBBLES Pebbles is a clean , friendly guest house offering an excellent English breakfast . Ideally situated a few doors from the seafront and Palace Pier . The Conference Centre and all local attractions and amenities are within a short walk .
Idiom: hit the headlines (used idiomatically: yes)
Another was the increased availability of , and demand for , cocaine . Sensational media and police reports in 1989 seemed to suggest an increased use of ‘ crack’ among young people in parts of south London , Liverpool , and Birmingham — with attendant fears that this particularly dangerous substance might become widespread , as it was reported to be in parts of the United States . for the moment , however , the pattern of drug abuse in Britain remains as varied as ever — with home - produced drugs such as amphetamines as serious a problem as those that hit the headlines . It is a symptom of public anxiety about urban squalor — and , less creditably , of class and racial prejudice — that ‘ drugs’ and ‘ inner cities’are automatically linked in the popular consciousness ( MacGregor , 1989a ) . Nevertheless , drug - taking and more particularly the disruptive social consequences of addiction , are especially serious in areas of city poverty ( Burr , 1989 ) .
Idiom: pecking order (used idiomatically: yes)
So we can see how closely connected are self - esteem and aggression in horses . Sometimes these less aggressive horses can behave very unexpectedly and take us by surprise . We may take a mild - mannered horse , one that is bottom of the pecking order at home , out to ride in the company of others — perhaps at a show or on a trail ride — and find to our embarrassment that it is threatening to kick every horse in sight . Such behaviour is a reaction to fear , of anticipating being hurt by another horse , especially if some other rider comes up from behind . More confident horses tend to ignore the other horses in such situations — unless they are stallions .
Idiom: smell blood (used idiomatically: no)
He could touch his toes . He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . His head was between his knees and he could smell the blood . The wetness was pooling in his lap . Then , for a moment , his back and shoulders were working properly .
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: yes)
I asked Charles Arnett , one of the two brothers who run the company . ' When we started in 1983 , the image of the old farmer 's wife at the stove was what we had in mind , ' Charles explained . His family , he told me , had been in the bakery business for nearly 50 years since his grandmother started selling cakes from her front room . ' Baking as it used to be ' the cake 's cardboard wrapper proudly claimed , but the ingredients seemed more in tune with modern technology than the farmhouse kitchen . A book of traditional recipes compiled by the Yorkshire Federation of Women 's Institutes in 1927 reveals that sultana cakes in those days called for butter , flour , eggs , sultanas and sugar with a dash of baking soda .
Idiom: get to the bottom of (used idiomatically: yes)
Wexford puzzle WILL Wexford discover who the phantom bike pusher is ? And will he manage to get to the bottom of the death of widow Ivy Wrangton ? The dogged Chief Insp Wexford nears the end of the trail , but there are a couple more deaths along the way , in the second and final part of the Ruth Rendell Mysteries : An Unwanted Woman ( tomorrow , ITV , 7.45pm ) . Susan Wooldridge plays Hilary Stacey in the drama , a woman torn apart by love for her daughter and her second husband .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: yes)
This was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo - Saxon , who had been appointed to his chair at the age of thirty - two , in the same year that Lewis got his fellowship at Magdalen . His name was J. R. R. Tolkien . It was another medievalist , under Tolkien 's influence , who gave utterance to the view that ' Literature stops in 1100 ; after that there 's only books , ' but they were sentiments which in a crude way echoed Tolkien 's own position . A graduate of Exeter College , Oxford , Tolkien had read Classical Mods and then done a version of the English course which was rigidly philological , and did not concern itself with post - medieval literature . Much more important than this was Tolkien 's vast imaginative life , one day to make him famous as author of The Lord of the Rings , but at this date completely hidden from all but his family and close friends .
Idiom: far and away (used idiomatically: yes)
Alternatively , you could carry on south out of As Cain , down a more minor road , to the village of Sare . Between As Cain and Sare you go over the Col Saint - Ignace , a very modest affair of some 500 feet . From the Col there is , in summer , a rack railway that will lift you , if you are so minded , to the conspicuous because lonely summit of La Rhune , which is far and away the most prominent mountain at this Atlantic end of the Pyrenees , even though it is no more than 3,000 feet high . To the Basque this is something of a holy , or at least legendary mountain . Today , inevitably , like all too many high places , it has far from legendary radio and television installations on top of it .
Idiom: catch fire (used idiomatically: yes)
The fourth aspect of Part H of the Consumer Protection Act relates to civil liability . The Act entitles a consumer to bring an action for damages against any trader in respect of damage or loss suffered by the consumer because of an infringement by the trader of safety regulations . Thus a child whose nightdress catches fire because when supplied it did not comply with the safety regulations will be able to claim compensation for her burns from the manufacturer . This is so even if she did not buy it direct from the manufacturer ( or , indeed , even if she did not buy it . ) She does not have to prove any negligence on the part of the manufacturer and does not even have to rely upon the product liability provisions of Part I of the Act .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: no)
At least some of these criticisms seem to have been taken on board in the recent proposals for reform of UK competition policy described in section II above . The proposals would give the Office of Fair Trading extensive powers to investigate market conduct , along the lines of the powers exercised by DGIV , and to reach conclusions about fines or remedies . However , the parties would have access to a specialized competition policy tribunal ( a restructured MMC ) , if they were unhappy with the conclusions of the Office of Fair Trading , and further rights of appeal to the High Court on points of law , on the interpretation of evidence , and on the level of fines . V. FOURTH PROPOSITION International harmonization of competition policies is essential and probably a supranational competition authority as well .
Idiom: for Africa (used idiomatically: yes)
Posters for the fair still adorned its sides . ‘ Should n't that be in Africa by now?’ she asked . ‘ Oh it 's no good for Africa because it 's petrol . They need diesel!’ he replied with his ‘ winning’smile . He had unashamedly pinched it .
Idiom: in the nick of time (used idiomatically: yes)
With only two weeks to go they were down to the cosmetic touches . Andrew Hall , the head gardener , was supervising the planting of hundreds of flowering tropical shrubs , and a skilled island craftsman was painstakingly carving intricate flowers onto the coral - stone fountain which was the garden 's focal point . Christina had just received the last consignment of furniture , arriving in the nick of time to prevent it being dumped higgledy - piggledy in the reception hall . She had coaxed , cajoled and bribed the delivery boys to do what they had already been told to do — carry it to the relevant floor of the hotel . She was feeling pleased with her progress when she walked in on a typical scene on the terrace of room 216 .
Idiom: weather the storm (used idiomatically: yes)
Like a ringmaster cracking his whip to bring squabbling lions to order , his intervention was rapid and decisive , demonstrating at once that he would not tolerate insubordination and that this applied to everyone . Varela and Galarza were dismissed ; the leader of the Falangist agitators was tried by court martial and shot ; and Serrano Suñer was told that he would no longer occupy the post of Foreign Minister . WEATHERING THE STORM ( 1943–49 ) With the wisdom of hindsight , Franco 's admirers later pointed to Serrano 's ouster as proof of the Caudillo 's keen political judgement . It came , they said , because Franco could see that the Axis was going to lose the war , so he wanted to distance the Spanish regime from Germany and Italy .
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: yes)
' The house is insured with the Northern . What 's the point of working for them if you have n't got the pull to get that done ? I want work started on that house by the end of next week . ' Desmond was one of those dominant husbands who knew that on one or two issues he faced adamantine resistance , and understood when to give in . ' All right , ' he said .
Idiom: foot the bill (used idiomatically: yes)
Bail - out facilities were then extended ad hoc to investment banks , mortgage providers , and big insurers like AIG , protecting managers , creditors , and stock - holders against loss . ( Goldman ~ Sachs became eligible for subsidized Fed loans by turning itself into a holding ~ company ) . The main part of the banking system was able to take risks without having to foot the bill for failure . Public anger apart , such a system is untenable . Premature rejection of bank nationalization has left us with the same two alternatives as in 1933 : break - up or regulation .
Idiom: in the pipeline (used idiomatically: yes)
Prep schools , in particular , were in trouble trying to match the State sector 's 7½ per cent pay rise for teachers . Since last summer at least 256 teachers had lost their jobs after 10 fee - paying schools folded , said officials . Another 95 were being axed in 51 schools , with a possible 90 further redundancies in the pipeline . Closures were mainly among private girls ' schools and included : Berisford House , Eastbourne , 35 redundancies ; St Stephen 's School , Broadstairs , Kent , 36 ; St Brandon 's School , Cleveland , 56 ; St Audrie 's , Somerset , four ; Oakdeane School , Beaconsfield , Bucks , 40 ; Humanby Hall , North Yorkshire , 28 ; and College of Sacred Hearts , Weymouth , Dorset , seven . At least five association members were made redundant by the Roman Catholic boys ' school of Ampleforth , North Yorkshire , last year .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: no)
Thirty four oh , thirty four all over two . All over two , then if you pass , spread them over minus sixteen add thirty four gives me eighteen over two , or if I do minus thirty four I get nine over two , that 'll be plus nine or even minus twenty five Eh , start off with , cos you 've gone all the way through that . Yeah , eh with the end you could have B equals minus fifteen over here and you would have still got the same answer . Now we 've got this far , so , now remember what we 're doing , we 're finding out what B squared is , so either , B squared is nine or B squared is minus twenty five .
Idiom: in cold blood (used idiomatically: yes)
No need , or less need , to plan more of a book which is to be written out of the right - hand side of your brain , out of intuition . It will probably be a good thing , depending finally on your own particular temperament , not to be able to see too much of the immediate future for your heroine . Then , if you have that necessary possession for any writer , luck , your subconscious will provide you with developments you never could have thought of in cold blood . And , because they will have arisen not out of planning but out of the story you are telling , almost certainly each new development will have that necessary quality of being a worse trouble for your heroine until the final calamity at the end . But that end you ought to have had a firm , if not wholly clear idea of from the earliest thought you gave to your story .
Idiom: bag and baggage (used idiomatically: yes)
There is nothing he wants to use the quintet for . Having entangled them in crime , he catches a train and goes away . And he takes a travelling rug with him — another of those fussy bag - and - baggage objects which assert the novel 's tonality . For he is an eternal traveller . As well as a rug he takes a book , author and title unspecified ; the eternal traveller is also the eternal student , and it is as ‘ the student ’ that Verkhovensky first appears in the manuscript drafts .
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
TOUCHING THE ROCK Ten years ago , Professor John Hull , who is now Dean of the Faculty of Education and Continuing Studies , began to lose his sight . His experiences of coming to terms with blindness are described in Touching the Rock , published by SPCK earlier this year . The book is based on a diary which Professor Hull kept on cassette . It describes everyday experiences , like crossing the Bristol Road , getting lost in University Square , and some of the problems of teaching and researching as a blind scholar .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: no)
My computer used to print fine , then it rans out of ink , it was replaced , and now it wo n't print in black . Try to deep clean your printer .
Idiom: under the microscope (used idiomatically: yes)
This particular difference is not , therefore , thought to be confined to one subtype of the illness , or to be a result of treatment procedures ( Warner , 1985 ) . It may , however , be an indicator of some earlier brain injury ( perhaps from obstetric complications or viral infection ) which served to increase the vulnerability of the person to schizophrenia . However , it should perhaps be made clear that for most people with schizophrenia , their brains appear completely normal as far as can be made out when looked at under the microscope . Secondly , biochemical differences in schizophrenia certainly exist , but then they also exist between people who are angry and those who are watching television . But particular abnormalities in biochemistry have been linked to schizophrenia since it was first discovered that hallucinatory drugs could induce a psychosis .
Idiom: man's best friend (used idiomatically: yes)
Egos are monsters . You got to get around the ego.’ At some point during this soliloquy I look down and notice man 's best friend humbly licking my shoe . Below left , top to bottom : JD , the sexy cowboy who sets Geena Davis on fire and then robs her blind in Thelma & Louise ; big quiffs , tatty underwear and exposed flesh in Johnny Suede ; big bucks and teen magazine centrefolds for Levi 's 501s deee cool
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: yes)
He will be reminded of the saying of Jesus , ‘ ’ He who has seen me has seen the Father.’ In the growing meeting of religions , he will want to discuss with Buddhist friends the possibility of equating dhamma with the Christian concept of God , though without the personal elements . He will examine more confidently his own intuition and hope , that there is Something or Somebody at work behind the scenes in all religions . Thera - vada Buddhism , the Buddhism of the Elders , has no belief in a soul or entity in man . If belief in an Ultimate develops , belief in a self will not be difficult .
Idiom: take the cake (used idiomatically: yes)
The cake was baked . c. The cake was taken . We are led to the conclusion that 11a is grammatically but not semantically deviant by the fact that substitutes for bake which normalise the sentence ( e.g. shake , forsake ) , as a class , have no distinctive semantic attributes ( that is to say , members of the class share no characteristic patterns of co - occurrence with other open set elements that differentiate them from non - members ) ; however , they do share a grammatical peculiarity , which is that they form their past participles with —en . The deviance of 11a is thus different from that of 9a : the substitutes for table in the latter which remove the anomaly can be distinctively characterised in semantic terms .
Idiom: for the time being (used idiomatically: yes)
Today he was placed on probation for two years . On 19 December 1991 the local authority made their application for an interim care order and I have said what the order was . After the hearing the mother asked the local authority to accommodate the two boys for the time being and that was done by placement in foster care . Early this week the boys were placed with the mother in the mother and baby home with the intention of rehabilitation to the mother . What the local authority wished to do under the interim care order was assess the mother with these children and protect the children so far as the father was concerned .
Idiom: jump to conclusions (used idiomatically: yes)
frequent and persistent headaches , sore throat or runny nose ( whatever the reason , a visit to the GP would be wise ) . ANY OF THESE MIGHT BE HAPPENING FOR OTHER REASONS . DON'T JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS . REMEMBER , MOST YOUNG PEOPLE NEVER TRY SOLVENTS . As a parent you know your own child best .
Idiom: down at heel (used idiomatically: yes)
I think we do n't have any more excuses to hide behind , like this man who is there in the churchyard . I mean he 's right there , and he 's a challenge , but how are people responding to him . I think by and large they 're probably running away and do n't want to have much to do with him and they do n't like these people , probably , who use your drop in centre because they might smell a little bit and they might be down at heel and they 're not really people who are going to contribute much to the lives of those other people who are trying to get on and make things better for themselves . I think we 're dealing here with people who are seen by the majority to be liabilities , and the majority do n't want to touch and have anything to do we 're dealing with modern day lepers . mhm Yes , I think that 's very true .
Idiom: a hair's breadth (used idiomatically: yes)
They emphasised that it was the circumstances of the individual case which led them to reject charges of degrading or inhuman treatment . Wendy Costello - Roberts , who brought the case , said she was disappointed , but added : ‘ The fact that the vote of the judges was only very slightly against us does show that we were taken very seriously.’ Martin Rosenbaum , the family adviser , added : ‘ This very narrow decision by the court shows that the Government can hang on to its defence of corporal punishment only by a hair 's breadth.’ Jeremy Costello - Roberts received ‘ a slippering’ at Barnstaple , Devon , for notching up five demerit marks after talking in the school corridors and , on one occasion , being late for bed . His mother , from Newquay , Cornwall , complained to the police and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children but was told they could take no action .
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: yes)
It 'll be years before you 're in this position again , so do n't give it up until you 're absolutely certain you 've found the place you want . Estate Agents Estate agents make money by selling houses , normally about 1.5–2 % of what the seller gets for his house:(up to £ 600 pounds on a £ 30,000 house ) so they do n't mind working for it . They 'll be happy to show you lots of properties , take you back for a second and a third look , keep you informed about new properties — as long as you seem clear about what you want and serious about buying it . Show them your Checklist and Mortgage Certificate .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: no)
Do n't these people know predictability is the f — ing enemy ? Suspiciously spot - on ' 92 , Cell sound as if they were test - tube hatched to fill the vacuum should Kurt Cobain pop his clogs . The guitars stagger all over the place , the singer hacks his throat raw and the song stutters to a halt in a welter of feedback . It 's OK . But OK ai n't nearly enough .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
Oh , the cars are still coming , the cars are coming now , I forgot about them . . I forgot the cars were coming down the road . Got to go across to that Olympus , right shall we come on quickly . .
Idiom: ride roughshod over (used idiomatically: yes)
In their efforts to master Congress , presidents have normally given a high priority to working through their party 's legislative leaders , but it is clear that an amicable and productive relationship with such leaders was not established during the Nixon years . It has been argued also that if the president and the Congress are to work well together , each branch must respect the other 's legitimacy and competence ; however , Nixon and his aides made no pretence of granting that much to the legislature . Instead they set out to ride roughshod over the legislative branch , attempting to govern without congress rather than with it . Given these provocations , it is not surprising that Congress , when it got the chance , should strike back against the executive . Watergate was to provide just such an opportunity .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
Third , the Eucharist is the focal point of fellowship . When we come together for worship it is as the body of Christ , to be the body of Christ and to feed on the body of Christ . In the light of this awesome fact , how can we treat our membership of that body so lightly ? Yet our koinonia ( fellowship ) so often falls short of the unity Christ desires . I think of this with particular reference to the local community and the wider community .
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
You , you apologized for lateness the only thing I wonder on there is er you know it 's ea it 's easy enough to say that you did n't actually sort of clarify the time that you were gon na be there , you just accepted that you were late erm but I mean that 's a you know ju just a point I wonder that rather than apologizing straight of all , straight , straight away if you knew you were late then that was one thing that perhaps you could 've got that in the initial greeting . But that 's , that 's a situation that , you know , you have n't really got control of when it arrive . Erm you seemed to go straight from sort of the , the sociability side into , into a statement of purpose erm and then went back to er how did you come to do business with Friends Provident . Martin mentioned that he , he 'd done it by post and you , you ex explored as to why . He said about a , a free gift as the first thing and then he said about made enquiries of others which I thought was almost er er a , a way there of saying well , you know , oth other people more or less recommend Friends Provident .