Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
The London stock markets staged a complete turn round today as tension increased in the Gulf , with the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein , threatening Israel . Nervousness was exacerbated by another weak Wall Street opening , a further rise in oil prices and fears that exports could be adversely affected by the strong pound . However , trading was strong with eight hundred and nineteen million shares changing hands today , and the profit taking was again the order of the day , with the close of the Footsie one hundred Index down sixty seven point five at two one three four point one . On the foreign exchanges , sterling gained ground on the weaker dollar , ending the day up at one dollar point nine seven three oh , however , it ended down one point seven pfennigs closing at three deutschmarks point O O six four . Today 's share prices : Abbey National down two at two two eight , British Aerospace down twenty two at five three seven , British Airways down three at a hundred and forty one , British Gas went down four point five at two two seven point five , British Telecom down six point five at two hundred and eighty four , Goodhead Publishing Group stayed at sixty , Metalbox down fifty to one O O seven five , Morland Brewers unchanged at two hundred and seventy , Oxford Instruments went down four to two three three , Thames Water was down five at two two nine and the Trustee Savings Bank went down one to a hundred and thirty seven .
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
' Just watch it , ' the sailor warned , threatening the poet . Blake moved to the side . He was swallowed up in the fog . He could n't clearly see the buildings or tell how things had changed since he was last in London . The fog covered everything with a layer of mystery and fate .
Idiom: one of those things (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Fiona,’ Fergus said , face set and teeth clenched . ‘ I do n't know,’ he breathed , ‘ why you 're making such a big thing of this . It 's just one of those things that happens at parties ; people do get drunk and they do do things they would n't normally think of . Maybe Julie has … or has had , in the past , a crush on me or something . I do n't know .
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
In short , there was a vast discharge of magic going on around him . The chamber beyond the door was lit by a pale green glow . Stacked around the walls , each on its own marble shelf , were tier upon tier of coffins . In the centre of the room was a stone chair on a raised dais , and it contained a slumped figure which did not move but said , in a brittle old voice , ' Come in , young man . ' Twoflower stepped forward .
Idiom: all along (used idiomatically: yes)
And the decision to combine the eurozone ’s new bailout fund ( the European ~ Stability Mechanism ) with the old one ( the European ~ Financial ~ Stability Facility ) significantly increased the size of the eurozone ’s firewall . But the ensuing honeymoon with the markets turned out to be brief . Interest - rate spreads for Italy and Spain are widening again , while borrowing costs for Portugal and Greece remained high all along . And , inevitably , the recession on the eurozone ’s periphery is deepening and moving to the core , namely France and Germany . Indeed , the recession will worsen throughout this year , for many reasons .
Idiom: weather the storm (used idiomatically: yes)
The home side enjoyed territorial advantage in the second period but never looked like penetrating a well organised Malone defence . Wilson 's misery continued as he missed two more straightforward penalties . Malone weathered the storm and broke out to seal the match after 69 minutes . Wilson 's attempted clearance on his own 22 was charged down by centre Graeme Copeland who ran on unopposed to touch down , with Cullen adding the conversion . CYCLING
Idiom: all and sundry (used idiomatically: yes)
Soon we were ready . Mandeville , who saw himself as the King 's own commissioner and therefore self - appointed leader , shouted orders ; the great gates swung open , and he led us out . As we rode towards London , one of Mandeville 's secretaries unfurled the pennant on a pole he carried bearing the royal arms of England , showing all and sundry that we carried the King 's own warrant . As we passed people stood back on either side , loud - mouthed apprentices and washerwomen in leather clogs stopping their noisy clatter and waiting for us to pass . We reached the muddy cobbles of the city , going through Bowyers Row and up towards Cripplegate .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: no)
He does the reconciling , he sees the sin , the hurts , the enormous chasm of unreconciled conflict , and he takes it all to a lonely cross . Does n't that say something amazing about God 's love ? He who is the blameless party takes the initiative in running towards us to forgive . Reconciliation involves repentance . We have to say ‘ sorry ’ .
Idiom: go it alone (used idiomatically: yes)
She 's been taking lessons at the Swallow flight centre since she was fourteen — now , on her seventeenth birthday she 's at last allowed to fly solo . She says that she 's been flying for three years . After some final instrument checks and a couple of circuits with her flying instructor Donna is ready to go it alone : He tells Donna that she 's ready to fly alone . Donna is airborn — and on her own .
Idiom: in the swim (used idiomatically: yes)
So when we saw one go flapping by I used to shout thkarni and the Indians would all laugh . Turns out — and I learned this not through Miguel but our second guide who has n't said much most of the trip — that thkarni is the Indians ' name — well , one of their many names , to be precise — for you - know - what . The thing up which the little fish in the river swims if you are n't careful . Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . I 've learnt about 60 I suppose overall and half of them are duds naughty words or words for something completely different .
Idiom: hit the headlines (used idiomatically: yes)
And the diminutive Australian got exactly that with Ivanisevic . The giant Slav had progressed close to the speed of light . He first hit the headlines when he knocked Becker , seeded two out of the French Open in 1990 . He swept from nowhere to 13 in the world in four weeks and kept it going through the rest of the year and throughout 1991 . ‘ Instead of first round defeats it was all semi - finals or finals,’ he says .
Idiom: point the finger (used idiomatically: yes)
This age group were more inclined to blame unemployment and housing conditions for the decline . They were less likely to blame declining church attendance or on - screen violence . Asked what they thought responsible for declining behaviour among young people , 43 per cent of all those questioned blamed the breakdown of the family — the same number who pointed the finger at housing conditions . Standards set by people in the public eye were only blamed by 39 per cent . Even less , 22 per cent , thought declining church attendance a factor .
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: yes)
Frankland 's answer was to use surface attraction rather than chemical affinity as the agent of purification ; in particular , to purify by means of the soil , in irrigation . Near Aldershot , where this was being tried , one could see the drainage of London being transformed thus into strawberries and cream . Air and water brought alternately into contact with earth did the trick . The commissions had recommended ‘ mild’ legislation about industrial pollution ; and Frankland believed that if firmly enforced it would have the effect of restoring many of the rivers to nearly their original purity .
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: yes)
Not that Arsenal should be singled out as sole instigators of the ill-feeling at White Hart Lane . They were sinned against as well as sinners . Paul Allen 's 21st-minute winner was the only entry on my score card , but the chaps from the WBC keeping tabs on Nigel Benn and Nicky Piper down the road at Ally Pally would have had a much busier afternoon . Derby matches would n't be so spicey without the fervour and passion born out of local rivalry . But Merseyside and Manchester both proved last week that it is possible to concoct high drama without substituting motivation for mutilation .
Idiom: down the drain (used idiomatically: yes)
These include plungers , wormscrews ( for boring into a blockage and pulling it out ) , and scrapers for removing sludge and silt and either pushing it down the drain or pulling it back into the inspection chamber on which you are working . You select which device you want , put it on the end of the drain rods and push them down the drain or the rodding point . Finding the hole in a blocked inspection chamber is not always easy : the way to do it is to find the bottom channel and to push the rod along this until it goes down the drain . Finding the rodding arm in an inspection chamber fitted with an interceptor trap is particularly difficult . Not only do you have to find it , but you may have to knock out the retaining plug .
Idiom: by dint of (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's the same kind of impetus that is needed to allow Encina and CICS/6000 to work together , argues Data Logic . CICS / Open is certainly one of the double - edged swords IBM is currently wielding . Whilst a CICS / Open strategy would likely furnish it with a lead position in the Unix OLTP market by dint of the number of CICS applications available for it , CICS / Open could also open the way for traditional CICS users to move not only to Unix , but away from IBM hardware platforms altogether . However , Data Logic says it is more than willing to show how a CICS / Open port could be achieved , and is prepared to support companies willing to undertake the work . CICS/6000 is a good product , Data Logic argues , but falls down because it is now caught up in the world of IBM marketing strategy .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
The British art trade would , however , like some serious fighting to be done to prevent its leading position in the world art market from being eroded by proposed EC provisions . One draft directive the trade is worried about regards the return of cultural treasures unlawfully removed from another member state ( see The Art Newspaper No.16 , March 1992 , p.1 ) . On the face of it one might say that an upstanding , law - abiding trade should have nothing to fear where this is concerned ; they should simply not deal in masterpieces without a provenance . It is when one comes to look at the application of the directive , and , in particular , at the small print of some other member states ' legislation , that one sees it is not so simple . At the nub of the matter is the fact that the Southern EC member states tend to have laws relating to the protection of their national heritage which are centralising and confiscatory .
Idiom: from scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
therefore , the rate we can grow is to a large extent governed by the rate we can either attract or develop the specialised management staff we need . Given this scenario , it became increasingly obvious that what we needed to adopt was a twofold approach to recruitment and training . Firstly , to attract bright and enthusiastic people into our operation who we could then train up from scratch , and secondly , to provide a channel for individuals who already have some bakery or catering experience , and for whom our kind of operation could offer the opportunities for management development denied them elsewhere . Of course , such an initiative as this needs to be flexible as not everyone will have the same background of experience , and individual needs will vary greatly . So while school or college - leavers can benefit from a relatively standardised approach , there are others whose training programme needs to be structured closely around their specific backgrounds and individual requirements , otherwise a large element of everyone 's input is going to be little more than an wasteful duplication of effort .
Idiom: come with the territory (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Because I 'm starting to do some really strange things.’ ‘ Sorry , mate . It comes with the territory … Just shows the treatment 's working , even when I 'm not on the spot.’ ‘ I somehow do n't think you 'd manipulate me into discussing religion with a real - live rabbi .
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: no)
Valladares claimed that this was " an historic moment " which would mark the true re - establishment of rights based on equality under the law . In an unprecedented action , the army , on its own initiative , had arrested the seven on Aug. 15 to stand trial before a military court . The bodies of 10 men and a woman had been found by a roadside with their hands ties behind their backs ; they bore signs of torture and had been shot in the head , a hallmark of right - wing paramilitary groups whose members included military personnel . Discovery of mass grave A team of Argentinian and Guatemalan pathologists dug up on Aug. 8 the bodies of 11 campesinos ( peasants ) who had been allegedly murdered by the military during the previous 10 years and buried in a mass grave near the village of Chontala , west of Guatemala City .
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: yes)
The @AP Twitter hoax represents systemic risk that can not be eliminated , for it arises from the interaction of highly integrated financial markets and increasingly democratized news delivery . Given strong incentives for malicious parties to perpetrate such hoaxes , we should expect to see an increase in incidents . Financial markets are vulnerable to manipulation , because they are not in the business of evaluating the truth . Trading often favors first movers , so being fast but wrong can still be profitable . Imagine that a sophisticated trading firm has invested significant resources to develop an algorithm that quickly evaluates the potential market impact of news , and then automatically sends orders to trade based on that predicted impact .
Idiom: go public (used idiomatically: yes)
Harris , who has been living in Minnesota and will eventually have to relocate , is to chair SCO 's executive committee , which includes vice presidents Doug Michels , Sam Spadafora , Dan Steimle and Lars Turndal . This change in the SCO hierarchy comes at a highly interesting time . The company has been preparing to go public , a process the suit could have adversely affected , while at the same time it was believed to be object of some takeover desires by Unix System Laboratories ( UX No 396 ) . Now that Novell has finally made its move with respect to USL — see opposite — SCO could look doubly attractive . Even SCO insiders are speculating on the possibility that Novell could pick up where USL left off or that Microsoft Corp , which already owns a minority piece of SCO , could come back for more .
Idiom: at a stretch (used idiomatically: yes)
Without the benefit of continuous interpretation and hindsight , much of the world of this book would be as incomprehensible to the reader as it was initially to its innocent anthropologist . Elderly men clammed up when Barley asked questions in the presence of his assistant , who was felt to be too young ; men rushed howling from the room when he casually asked about circumcision in a sister 's presence . ‘ To begin with I was distressed to find that I could n't extract more than ten words from Dowayos at a stretch … One day , after about two months of fairly fruitless endeavour , the reason struck me . Quite simply , Dowayos have totally different rules about how to divide up the parts of a conversation .
Idiom: take someone for a ride (used idiomatically: yes)
Oh yeah it 's not fair on Peter . Oh poor , poor angelic little Peter . Yeah he 's not taking me for a ride or anything . Well you as well because you 've but er you 're using Andrew really . I mean I
Idiom: rise to the occasion (used idiomatically: yes)
That great orchestral war - horse , Mussorgsky 's Night on a Bare Mountain , comes off equally well , the orchestra playing with a winning combination of sheer gusto and precision . We are , though , left with the question of exactly which orchestra we have had the pleasure of listening to : while the back cover of the jewel case states that both works have been played by the Canadians under Barshai , the inner notes suggest ( unbelievably ) that one of them may have been performed by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta under Norman Del Mar ! Anton Kuerti provides a vibrant and characterful solo contribution in the Concerto ( though the slow movement is distinctly short on poetry ) , and the orchestra rises to the occasion well . The far less frequently heard ( and recorded)Fantasia goes with a swing — the members of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir adding their contribution with not only enthusiasm but also some subtlety — and the Overture rounds off a generally recommendable disc . The ‘ Aspects’‘Baroque Sampler’ ( ) , with the Toronto SO again under Andrew Davis , is a collection of such favourites as Pachelbel 's Canon , Albinoni 's Adagio , and Jeremiah Clarke 's Trumpet Voluntary .
Idiom: make ends meet (used idiomatically: yes)
Mrs Aquino , we are investigating the cause of death of Inday Rodriguez . We have heard evidence that it was the rise in the price of rice , that you approved , which was the final straw . She no longer had the money to make ends meet . Why did you approve this action ? CA : Unfortunately my government had no choice .
Idiom: make or break (used idiomatically: yes)
It is not unusual for a researcher to ‘ trail’ the main publication by means of articles in the learned journals . Publication of the report Publication day is when the work becomes available to other social scientists . They will make judgements as to the quality of the work , basing their opinion upon what is actually published , and the author 's reputation may be made or broken by what the critics say . This is an important aspect of research . It may be done partly for the love of the work , but every author is also concerned to establish a reputation for good work among those whose opinion matters .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
A comprador mentality is the attitude that the best practices are invariably connected with the global capitalist system . Comprador mentality is either a ‘ cost’ or a ‘ benefit’and whichever way we look at it we are bound to beg a very important question . This is the point at issue in the ideological struggle between those who believe that TNCs will inevitably damage Third World development prospects in the long run , as against those who believe that there will be no development prospects without the TNCs . This struggle revolves around opposing material interests of competing classes and groups in all countries . There are those who see the destiny of the Third World as bound up with the adoption of all that is ‘ modern’ , often embodied in the products and practices of the TNCs .
Idiom: turn the corner (used idiomatically: yes)
' Yes , sir . ' The sound of their voices broke the nervous spell and both men dug in their heels to make their horses trot . Sharpe had to duck under a low chestnut branch as he turned the next corner to see , five hundred yards ahead of him , the wide village street . He stopped again . The street seemed empty .
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah . The appointment contracts and variations have been changed in accordance with the paper I 've put to you . The sort of Toytown Railway example is now up and running . The interim client report which I showed as , again as an example which I provided you a copy with , is now available . So effectively you 've had that information all you 've actually got to do is to make sure that the text within the general notes of the
Idiom: fall into place (used idiomatically: no)
When he 'd gone , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I began to try out different possibilities . More and more convinced he 's right , but not quite sure what it needs . Maybe when boxing - match problem solved this will fall into place . He urged me to come and see his new place in Brighton . Swore the sea air was doing his health good .
Idiom: man and boy (used idiomatically: yes)
If we were to solve our problem by disposing of our enemy , we would set a very disgusting precedent in terms of separatist problem - solving . Graduated separatism accepts pure separatism 's definition of the problem , but not the solution . Apart from anything else it is self - defeating to nurture girl children , to teach them self - respect and self - defence , and then have to watch them go to war with men and boys whose ideas are left unchallenged . Having said this , I do n't mean that it is the job of women to re - educate men . Once a woman has decided what and who she wants to be , it is for the men in her life , if there are any , to re - educate themselves to take account of her .
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: yes)
A wafer thin translucent something undulated through the air towards her , chuckling gently to itself in a liquid voice . She put out a hand , and the thing wrapped itself around her arm , warm and dry and tingling — and Bernice was suddenly struck by a question so obvious it stunned her . If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? Bernice ran the fingers of her free hand through her thickly beaded dreadlocks as she tried to think . She was no naturalist , but it seemed to her that every living thing around her was controlled in some way , by some — force : prevented from over - breeding , over - growing .
Idiom: hit home (used idiomatically: yes)
It was then that he penned this erudite survey of the Chinese prison camps . The ideology , social structure and living conditions of the Gulags are all explained thoroughly and Wu has no hesitation in comparing them to Hitler 's concentration camps . But it is the photographs that hit home the hardest : prisoners paraded round the streets in execution parades , broken men with cardboard signs hung around their necks on TV ( post - Tiananmen ) and kneeling before firing squads . THE CRIME — IRAQ 'S INVASION OF KUWAIT Rather than a book , this is a day - by - day , point - by - point detail of events from the day Iraq invaded Kuwait .
Idiom: fit the bill (used idiomatically: yes)
GAMEKEEPERS AND POACHERS The phenomena of poacher - turned - gamekeeper and gamekeeper - turned - poacher are rare but not unknown . Most headhunters originally left their positions in industry at the behest of a headhunting firm who needed more consultants and saw them as fitting the bill . Comparatively few consultants had directly approached search firms for a job , but this is becoming more the case , especially in the USA , and will become more common as executive search becomes more generally accepted and regarded as an attractive career in its own right . Poacher - turned - gamekeeper — a headhunter going back to industry , especially via an assignment he or she is handling — is rarer .
Idiom: over the counter (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah which are all , er what they called ? I bet they do n't dispense much of that now because most people buy it over the counter do n't they ? Oh their own , yes I mean you 're not going to spend three pound forty on a prescription if you can get a bottle for about one pound fifty so
Idiom: the icing on the cake (used idiomatically: yes)
Who knows ? There might even be an election next year . That would be the icing on the cake.’ Giving a hint of the rivalry to come , a Central TV spokesman said : ‘ We felt the slot was right for Sir Robin and ideally placed on that particular night . Does anybody watch Question Time now anyway?’