Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: yes)
This statement should be enclosed with the letter of instruction . The plaintiff should be asked for their views on the treatment received to ensure that there are no areas which may involve allegations of medical negligence . If there are , they should be dealt with in a separate statement , bearing in mind the requirement for exchange of witness statements . Selecting the right doctor In addition to careful selection of the individual expert , attention must be paid to the type of expert who is instructed .
Idiom: make history (used idiomatically: yes)
They served to date some events , to establish the names of some of the participants , perhaps their ages . But they did not do much more than that . In general , these private archives served to make lineage history : a man kept his own papers , and his father 's and grandfather 's if he inherited them . Most people kept their papers in tobacco tins ; one man kept his in a biscuit tin , and one shaikh stored his in an old suitcase . But most sources were oral : a man knew what he knew chiefly because his father or grandfather had told him .
Idiom: take someone for a ride (used idiomatically: yes)
All thoroughly unlawful but there is a limit to public patience when the law- abiding feel they are not protected by officialdom . And when the law actually penalises people who inflict punishment outside the law through sheer frustration with its inadequacies , has not the time come for judges to realise they are dealing with real - world situations and sentence accordingly ? Yesterday , two Norfolk men who kidnapped a prime suspect and took him for a ride were sent to prison for five years and apparently the suspect did not even get a police caution . Perhaps his guilt could not be proved . But the two men had no chance to prove their innocence ; they were ‘ advised’ to plead guilty .
Idiom: make or break (used idiomatically: yes)
The centre will link up with former Maesteg coach Leighton Davies . Testing time GREAT BRITAIN rugby league stars Paul Loughlin ( broken arm ) and Mike Gregory ( knees ) plan make - or - break comebacks after lengthy injuries . Charged A 27-year - old man has been charged with causing actual bodily harm to Kingstonian goalkeeper Adrian Blake during the FA Cup replay with Peterborough .
Idiom: on the money (used idiomatically: yes)
Then o on page five I found a quote that there was nothing particularly in the consultation document for merger referring to finance apart from the increase coming from the changes and that question er , the , I take your points er , in fact referring to the and provider unit . Well in when you 're considering the the possible merger of the three health authorities , they have n't positioned any one particular private er , provider unit is , is not really the crucial issue at hand ! If you wanna make a point about that well well we 'll point about them erm there is er a comment erm in this erm erm yeah on paragraph , paragraphs four and five , page five the first of we will buy them including all the legislation that will reduce and if you got up to page three , paragraph six there 's a claim that levels are eight percent higher on the same money ! But you know , the these people ha have hardly been treated erm and a , a contract for obtaining more health care year by year so , you know if yo , if you 're saying that erm these wi will will reduce or that the action has already taken place , it ca n't reduce erm so , then again it 's , it 's not really relevant to erm the proposal of running a , a health authority , you know , these people should talk . Erm I 've , I I think I 'll erm was talking about people attending the health authority meetings at the moment but the local health authority do move meetings around , Saffron Walden Bishop 's Stortford , Harlow and and and one over at erm and this apart from it 's was only us coming from Harlow at the meeting last week and the health authority met in Harlow er , you know the me the meetings are moving about , they are there for people to come to but if they 're not coming to to the meetings while they 're o on on the doorstep then , then really what else can the health authority do to me , to make people come ?
Idiom: unknown quantity (used idiomatically: yes)
Yet already , with Benjamin the Silversmith , we have noticed a change : he moved around London as often as he did not because life was proving difficult where he was , but because customers or lodgers might be more easily found just round the everlasting corner . Finally comes Benjamin James , the professional man with a career to build . Teachers seeking advancement have traditionally had to be mobile — much more so than their legal or medical colleagues ; there is everything to be gained by arriving as an unknown quantity in a new school — promotion will usually attend such a move , and all the unfortunate errors perpetrated in one 's early years can be left far behind . Benjamin James Titford may or may not have made his fair share of mistakes as a young teacher ; but when the chance came of running his own show in a conducive environment , he took it with alacrity . Family historians very soon become aware of the rather bizarre and uncanny way in which people 's lives can bring them circling back to places which have strong connexions with their own forgotten ancestry .
Idiom: seal of approval (used idiomatically: yes)
ROLYPOLY , PUDDINGS AND PIE Great British Puddings Philippa Davenport SEAL OF APPROVAL The history of the cork Kathryn McWhirter FASHION & BEAUTY
Idiom: hold someone's hand (used idiomatically: yes)
She sat beside me and bathed and bandaged my knee but Aunt Louise made no sign that she realized what was going on . ‘ Their minds are like trains going along a track which here and there has a broken connection,’ said the nurse . ‘ Have you tried holding her hand?’ ‘ No , I do n't think she would like that . I think in her day people were more reserved , and she is rather proud.’
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: yes)
He had the arrogance and the charisma of a Bob Stanford - Tuck or Doug Bader , but I will also add that he had that indefinable something that was an essential ingredient in an outstanding bomber pilot . He also had the same stock - in - trade qualities that were clearly visible in Len Cheshire , Willie Tait , Jimmy Marks , Pat Daniels and the youthful Fraser Barron to name but a handful . Oddly enough many years later — and shortly before his death — " Cocky " and I often had breakfast together in the RAF Club and he never berated Bennett or in any way referred to the difference of opinion that certainly existed in the Pathfinder era . Sadly much of the animosity generated about Cochrane and Bennett originated from within No 5 Group and a great deal I was able to counter before it reached tap - room levels , I never felt I was running with the fox because I had great feeling and admiration for both these Olympian"gores , in fact , Cochrane invited me to move to No 5 Group with him when he left No 3 Group , but I declined as I was in mid - tour . When the war ended he sought me out to offer me choice of jabs ; I chose his Transport Wing in Germany , on loan to Sholto Douglas then the C - in - C Germany , to operate the air transport requirements for Germany in the early days after the end of the war , with aircraft baked in the UK .
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: yes)
the management of the development I would tend not to until the scheme was actually in management and running up and running yes so you intend to deal more with people who already bought and were in
Idiom: watering hole (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Every time I sell one of those things I 'm committing a crime against humanity,’ he had told him . Duncan decided at that moment that if things got really bad he would blitz the Russian with some of the Skoda and Lada jokes that were popular in the West . They came into Moscow , past the vast Aeroflot Hotel which is still the main watering - hole for tourists . Duncan was staying at the Savoy Hotel , not far from the Kremlin . Unlike the big tourist hotels , the Savoy was for favoured and important visitors .
Idiom: man and boy (used idiomatically: yes)
But it worked . Eyepatches became the rage at fancy - dress parties . And Hathaway , ‘ a small company of dedicated craftsmen in the little town of Waterville , Maine,’ said their advertisements , ‘ who have been at it , man and boy , for 114 years’ , sold out their stock of shirts within a week of the first eyepatch appearing in The New Yorker . In fact the anonymous man in the shirt was a male model but he was also , so it happened , a baron , the son of a Tsarist diplomat , by name George Wrangel . With curious fitness , fate had it in store for him to marry an heiress and settle down in a castle in Spain — he who had conjured up so many of them in the imagination of junior executives .
Idiom: out of this world (used idiomatically: no)
( WES AD LIB)(ANNE ) Still to come on Central News , a policeman 's lot . Will the Sheehy report make it a happier one ? Out of this world . An astronaut goes back to school . And , no conferring , but are you ready for the Challenge of the Nineties ?
Idiom: out to lunch (used idiomatically: yes)
" I can get that list of voyages you asked for tomorrow morning , " she said . " How shall I get it to you ? " " Do you go out to lunch ? " " Not always . It is very expensive , and I often take sandwiches to the office .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah well we 're in touch with each another you know qu quite a lot of people have visited us . Obviously at the moment we we all of us are really tied up with living from a Tuesday to a Saturday really you know with Tuesdays our meeting and then all that has to be done after that and then Saturday is the food parcels you know so and most people work as well either part time or full time work at home er with the kids and bringing up families so and obviously also money is shor short for people that are directly involved in the strike so erm . No we 're not all rushing off all over the place although the men and s some of the women you know we have gone off and they still I mean the men were in South Wales last week . A lot of people have come up to visit so in those term you know yes we do yeah sort of er seeing each other but erm you know we do n't have a lot of spare time either . Can you give me some idea of your relationship with the erm the lodge ?
Idiom: give head (used idiomatically: yes)
It seems to follow from Darwin 's ideas that as the generations pass , so the organisms in a particular line of descent ( lineage ) must become better and better adapted to the prevailing conditions . And indeed , there are many lineages in nature that seem to show this steady improvement in adaptation ; modern horses are more beautifully fitted to running on the open plain than ancient ones ; modern monkeys more agile than their predecessors . If natural selection were given its head , and an infinite amount of time to work in , then it seems that all lineages would tend inexorably towards ' perfection ' ; where perfection was defined as perfect adaptation . In practice , life does not work out quite like that . For one thing , each lineage is limited in the things it can do .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: no)
Unit - linked policies . These are less safe than with - profits policies but they offer the attraction of potentially higher investment returns . Unit - linked policies by and large have performed fairly well over the last few years and have consequently been growing in popularity . However , there is always the risk that they might not continue to perform as well in the future and , if there were a down - turn , the size of your pension could obviously be affected . For this reason , many advisers recommend that their clients swop their unit - linked policies to the with - profits type about five years before they retire , provided market conditions are favourable at the time .
Idiom: send someone packing (used idiomatically: yes)
As a military power the papacy was a failure , and this above all saved the popes from the innate tendency of medieval prelates to become secular rulers . They were monarchs indeed from the mid eleventh century on , ruling over a monarchy as wide as western Christendom with some very material weapons ; but it was a spiritual monarchy in which military power had no hand ; and in Rome itself the spiritual monarchy became for ever entangled with the pope 's role as the ruler of the city . Time and again the Romans were stirred by the love of liberty and faction , which is a central feature of the whole urban renaissance , to rise against the pope and send him packing . But many Romans were also devout Catholics and prosperous hoteliers ; and conscience and economic need drove them to summon him back , for the city could not prosper in the eyes of God or man , of Simon Peter or Simon Magus , without the holy father . The paradoxes of our story are nowhere writ so large as in Rome ; the basilicas of San Clemente and Santa Maria in Trastevere were totally rebuilt in the twelfth century — and yet they perfectly express the art and architecture of the fourth century — as perfectly as any Gothic building of the nineteenth century expresses the thirteenth , or fourteenth .
Idiom: on the game (used idiomatically: yes)
Table skittles I read with interest a letter in the December edition of Woodworker from Hugh Gostick of Stockport . He was interested in building a table skittle game and requesting information on the game and the availability of plans to build one . The game of tables skittles , or to use its traditional name ‘ Devil Among the Tailors’ , is a pub game which originated in London in 1783 . How it got its name is not a documented fact , but it is believed to have come about when the tailors of London congregated at the Haymarket Theatre to protest about a play called The Tailors : A Tragedy For Warm Weather .
Idiom: make head or tail of (used idiomatically: yes)
Had he seen the timer in a shop window at half the price , he would have ignored it . ‘ Bloody thing wo n't work,’ he said a moment later . ‘ Ca n't make head or tail of the instructions.’ ‘ Shall I try?’ Ginny said .
Idiom: rock bottom (used idiomatically: yes)
Detectives are now following up information given to them . Lynne Trenholm EXCLUSIVE Cabinet colleagues back PM as he hits rock bottom in polls By Chris Moncrieff Press Association JOHN Major 's Cabinet colleagues yesterday ruled out a leadership challenge this side of the general election , as the Prime Minister 's stock remains at rock bottom in new opinion polls .
Idiom: once and for all (used idiomatically: yes)
Meanwhile other chemists have tried to fashion totally synthetic models that do not depend on a porphyrin ligand . There are two main reasons for this . If such a working model of haemoglobin could be made , it would prove once and for all that it is the iron and not the porphyrin that 's ultimately responsible for the properties of haemoglobin . Secondly , a non - porphyrin ligand would be easier to chemically modify and so permit study of a greater range of ligand structural variations . Till now though such research has been fraught with failure and misinterpretation .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Among archivists and manuscript curators , it is an essential principle to explain the provenance of the documentary sources and preserve their integrity in such a way that each reader may draw his / her own conclusions with the minimum of interference . But how , with an electronic document , do you discern its origins , whether it is the work of more than one hand , how much altered from an original first draft , and so on ? From my own work , one particular parallel comes to mind . I once spent many months as a student using the papers of Francis Place , the radical reformer of early nineteenth - century Westminster . His collections , put together painstakingly by himself over a long lifetime , and including large quantities of newscuttings , ephemera , overlapping narrative autobiography and correspondence , came to the British Museum ( as it then was ) through his family .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: no)
One of the things we 've been doing this year is to actually have a club once a week , a sort of club night , when teachers can come it — this is particularly primary teachers — and use our machinery , look at our programs , go through our library and meet each other , so that the people who have got some expertise can then go back to the school and sort of spread their information and their enthusiasm in their schools . That 's the sort of role that we are trying to perform . And that club could be joined by any teacher ? This year we 've restricted it to primary , partly because we felt that 's where the enthusiasm was , and partly , if people wo n't mind me saying so , to keep out the computer science specialists — we felt that , you know , we did n't want a club for boffins or for the experts , we wanted a club and we felt that if we started at the primary end , where there was n't a lot of expertise , we would probably be of more use . We 're thinking of extending it next year to cover secondary .
Idiom: break the ice (used idiomatically: yes)
Both the Full Moon in Taurus on the 10th and an explosive aspect to Pluto on the 14th denote that two 's company , three 's a crowd . That , and your reluctance to make a final decision , may cause a few sleepless nights . But a fantastic aspect to Mars in Cancer shows that you are the instigator this time , and you have the ability to melt someone 's heart — or break the ice , at the very least . Leo July 24–Aug 23 A series of complex and powerful planetary influences suggest that everyone 's gunning for you this month .
Idiom: on paper (used idiomatically: yes)
Beaten 16 times in the last 17 years over the 4 mile Putney to Mortlake course and virtually written off by the bookies , the Light Blues insist they can turn the tide . ' We are confident we can beat anybody at the moment , ' said Cambridge coach John Wilson . On paper Oxford look unstoppable two reigning Olympic champions , five former Boat Race winners and the most sought after coach in international rowing to make the cocktail gel in Mike Spracklen . Dance sport Irish hit ' gold ' standard in Malahide
Idiom: new blood (used idiomatically: yes)
It delights in startling the horses which pull gypsy caravans ; to protect them , therefore , horses wore bridles hung with small , holed stones , the breast - bones of blue jays and kingfishers , and four - leaf clovers . Changeling Fairies greatly value human babies as a means of introducing new blood to their dwindling race , so have been known to steal them and leave a useless object behind . This may be a sickly , peevish fairy child , an aged fairy no longer of value , or even a piece of wood carved to resemble the stolen child . Characterised by a swollen head , unearthly howling and a nasty temper , these misfits were , oddly , known as Children of the Quiet Folk .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
Not all the evidence by any means concurs with the view that women were actually superior to men in some respects . It is precisely a feature of the debate that no statement was innocent : employers and unionists used the arguments they hoped would further their own cause and did not appear to be aware of the contradictions in their logic . Thus we have Macdonald reporting on the " almost unanimous chorus of opinion that women 's work as compositors is so inferior to men 's that it does not pay in the long run " ( the chorus in question being from employers ) But the testimony of individual employers is far from unanimous or even consistent . The evidence given to the 1908 Fair Wages Commission by Fraser of Neill & Co ( the Edinburgh printers handling government work ) is riddled with contradictions in this respect . One minute he is boasting that " our girls set Greek , Hebrew , Algebra , indeed anything you like , they are all well - trained girls " ; the next he is saying , " their rate per line is not the same as a man 's ; their corrections are heavier and that kind of thing , they make more mistakes " .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: no)
ENGLAND No 1 Peter Marshall was crushed 15-7 , 15-12 , 15-10 by former world champion Rodney Marsh in the £85,000 Qatar international squash tournament quarter-finals in Doha . Ashes on air BALL-BY-BALL radio commentary of next summer 's Test series against Australia has been confirmed by the BBC . Coverage will be shared by Radio 5 and Radio 3 FM . Marc in touch
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: yes)
There were so few proper members in the badminton club that it was half - way between dead and ' on break ' .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Indeed , it is the real professional challenge ahead of you , and you should embrace it as an opportunity . Young finance professionals need to familiarize themselves with the history of banking , and recognize that it is at its best when it serves ever - broadening spheres of society . Here , the savings - bank movement in the United ~ Kingdom and Europe in the nineteenth century , and the microfinance movement pioneered by the Grameen ~ Bank in Bangladesh in the twentieth century , comes to mind . Today , the best way forward is to update financial and communications technology to offer a full array of enlightened banking services to the lower middle ~ class and the poor .
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: yes)
Although former Neville men were predisposed to look to the duke , Gloucester still had to work at being a good lord in order to give substance to the relationship . Nor was Gloucester 's northern connection ever just that of the earl of Warwick . Noble affinities were in any case constantly evolving as their members came of age , married and died , but Gloucester 's lordship brought other changes . As he acquired further land and office in the north , the affinity inevitably widened . Not only were men from other areas drawn into Gloucester 's circle but , by a cumulative process , the duke 's new interests made him a more attractive lord within the Neville lands themselves .
Idiom: go it alone (used idiomatically: yes)
Meanwhile , the Trains were in 5th place in the second group and the lead had been taken over by Gyulay / Petervari . Another lap saw the Romanians pull past the French and the Trains pass Balabanov / Dobrotvorski of the USSR . The Trains made for the French wash but the Russians decided to go it alone , a tactical error . Exit the Russians , backwards . The fifth lap ended with a clear lead for the Hungarians , the Romanians with the Trains on their wash and , after a large gap , the Russians with the French on their wash .
Idiom: in the pipeline (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ There is still a lot of activity under the surface,’ said a corporate finance director at an American bank . There are a lot of people looking at potential deals and analysing them but not necessarily announcing them.’ He said clients keen to move into Britain have had deals ‘ in the pipeline’ but were delaying them out of concern about a Labour government 's competition policies or in the hope of further interest rate cuts . ‘ The dam is not going to go bust tomorrow,’ warned Bob Dowsett , corporate finance director at Morgan Grenfell . In the first quarter of 1992 , there were 23 public takeovers worth £ 1.1 billion , against 19 , worth £ 979 m , last year , according to Acquisitions Monthly .