Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
John Smith was now committed to clobbering the poor by reversing their tax cut as soon as Labour got in . The way I saw it , Neil Kinnock replied to the Budget with the look of a man who had got out to bat against Curtly Ambrose , only to discover , as he took a particularly nasty delivery in the meat - and - two - veg , that he had left his box in the pavilion . ‘ Pained’ was the adjective that came to mind . But then a group of people in Slough were shown on the telly saying that the Budget was a total disaster and they were all going to vote Labour . They felt that the help to the poor would benefit the rich — er … sorry?— and that the Budget had n't done nearly enough for them .
Idiom: fit the bill (used idiomatically: yes)
This lacuna may be of interest in trying to establish the circumstances , or complex of circumstances , required if an ice age is to occur … assuming , of course , that the neat spacing of the others is not just a matter of chance . A good correlation can be seen between the occurrence of an ice age and various other geographical / geological phenomena : there is a substantial landmass near one of the poles — in the case of the current ice age , Antarctica fits the bill extensive mountain - building , due to colliding continental plates , is in progress — the Andes , Himalayas and Cascades are all mountain ranges that have come into existence during the past 10 + million years , and are still in the process of creation more landmasses are above water than usual — although this may be a chicken - and - egg effect because during an ice age much of the world 's water is locked up as ice , so that ocean levels are lower
Idiom: under the wire (used idiomatically: yes)
A Tyrolean fence is most suitable for drying dredge crops ( see Figure 12 ) . After first construction and adjustment it can be erected and dismantled quickly : provided anchorages and connections are well made , it is trouble - free . It is loaded from the bottom wire upwards and the natural settling of the crop makes big air tunnels under each wire . It is better than tripods for a really wet crop since the crop may be put up the day it is cut even in rainy weather . Fences may also be used for hay , but are not suitable for corn - bound in sheaves .
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: yes)
When a high head is followed by a rise the stressed syllables tend to move downwards , as one would expect , towards the beginning pitch of the tone : Of course , when we examine the intonation of polysyllabic heads we find much greater variety than these simple examples suggest . However , the division into high and low heads as general types is probably the most basic that can be made , and it would be pointless to set up a more elaborate system to represent differences if these differences were not recognised by most English speakers . Some writers on intonation claim that the intonation pattern starting at a fairly high pitch , with a gradual dropping down of pitch during the utterance , is the most basic , normal , ‘ unmarked’ intonation pattern ; this movement is often called declination . The claim that declination is universally unmarked in English , or even in all languages , is a strong one .
Idiom: high as a kite (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I 'll be brief,’ I said , businesslike . ‘ Carol 's split town and gone back to university as far as anyone knows . Last reported early yesterday morning , high as a kite , heading for a train . Sorry.’ ‘ Well , why do n't you go too , Celia?’ she came back totally unfazed .
Idiom: high and dry (used idiomatically: yes)
Now I 'm just thinking , so we got a thousand pounds here , I would like to spend this money . I mean we we had a definite offer and it 's all paid much later , that the money is coming and then the committee will get the money back . Er And nothing should happen but we have n't heard , but also after that date we are high and dry again so I would quite like to keep as much in the kitty from the money we 've raised , for the admin course you know , the future of the admin course , as possible . At the same time , this needs spending . Where has this thousand pounds come from ?
Idiom: on the nod (used idiomatically: yes)
So out of those we should be able to manage a hundred surely . The other thing is if we 're successful with Atkins if he 's behind the bill the MPs are unlikely to talk it out . They 'll accept it and put send it through on the nod if we can get his support . So he 's crucial . Why is the Whip so important ?
Idiom: full marks (used idiomatically: yes)
Good one to go for . Mhm . You should get full marks on that and on that other one . Yeah . They 're good ones to go for .
Idiom: in the altogether (used idiomatically: no)
NATURISM During the Second World War a nudist village for evacuee naturists was set up twenty miles outside London . Accommodating mainly mothers and children , the village had a warden and first - aid post and included tuition in basic skills like cooking ( with special emphasis on careful use of the frying pan)‘in the altogether’ . The residents were confident that wartime experience would convert many more of their clothed countrymen to shed their garments too — presumably for no other reason than that it eased the problems caused by clothes rationing . NEVER ON A MONDAY
Idiom: break someone's heart (used idiomatically: yes)
He had aged considerably over the last few months , and though he protested he was fit , healthy and perfectly capable of taking care of the kids while I got a job , I had my doubts . I tried putting the boys in nursery school , but they screamed the place down . It broke my heart , I just could n't leave them . The only alternative was a night job . I became a croupier — starting work at 11 p.m. and finishing at 5 a.m.
Idiom: hear things (used idiomatically: yes)
You did ! I saw your expression . I heard the things you did n't say ! Now you get frightened and keep me at arm 's length ! Why ?
Idiom: all over bar the shouting (used idiomatically: yes)
But meanwhile , the hospital workers had been dug in for another kind of long war which ca n't be won the miners ' way . Round about the time of the miners ' ballot , hospital workers were holding meetings in South Yorkshire hospitals where only months earlier they had voted for all - out strike action . Now they were holding awkward , sometimes acrimonious meetings , badly managed and very sad , because they knew it was all over bar the shouting . None of us expected the hospital workers to save us from Thatcher , and yet they tried harder than most . The odds stacked against them show that industrial action today needs a leap of the political intellect .
Idiom: on the take (used idiomatically: yes)
Crimes of the powerful : corporate crime The fact that criminality is linked with respectability and power is central to Marxist - based studies , such as those of Chambliss ( see Chapter 2 ) . In his book On The Take , Chambliss examines the social character of crime networks in Seattle , USA ( Chambliss , 1978 ) . His conclusion is that the forces behind organised crime in America are leading members of the ruling group , and the book 's subtitle is ' From Petty Crooks to Presidents ' . Chambliss 's evidence is based on several years ' participant observation in Seattle .
Idiom: dead wood (used idiomatically: yes)
The bellicose termite belongs to a group that uses a different digestive method . They employ a fungus to do it for them . The workers eat almost nothing but dead wood . Although they absorb a little from their first meal , their droppings still contain a great deal of unextracted sustenance . So they defecate in special chambers within the nest and on their manure cultivate their fungus .
Idiom: think twice (used idiomatically: yes)
Look around in your own garden or school — plants and flowers are growing everywhere . It is the perfect time to stand back and look at how the beauty of nature can enhance your surroundings . Maybe if more people did this they would think twice before harming it . So this week I thought we 'd have a go at making a miniature garden , which you can grow in your bedroom . Here 's how to go about it .
Idiom: hands down (used idiomatically: no)
She knew she could rely on his discretion for , although she was not ashamed of her background , she considered that the fewer people who knew of it , the better . She wanted to put no weapon into her mother - in - law 's hands that could be used against her . Now , as the coachman handed her down and she swept into the kitchen in her fur - lined velvet cloak , the difference in her life since her marriage was brought home to her as never before . At Thorsbury Manor she never saw the inside of the kitchen yet here , it was the centre of family life . Her mother and the kitchen were the hub around which life revolved .
Idiom: once and for all (used idiomatically: yes)
After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . Mr Crangle was almost thrown into the sea with them and the Headmaster had shouted at him so loudly he was deaf for a week . At the same time as Endill and Mould were building their catapult an expedition had been organised to find the creature once and for all . The best climbers in the school were picked for the hunt and they set out , one on each shelf . Mr Crangle was certain he would be successful .
Idiom: in black and white (used idiomatically: yes)
So we agreed to do it for him . Ten minutes drive later , we finally found the field he had noticed . Sure enough , the next day , there it was , a great picture — in black and white ! It 's been fun since the election too . If I had n't been elected , I doubt if I would every have had to request to ‘ Take some gentle exercise with Jerry Hall’ .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Almost 12 miles from Gubbio , a left turn leads over a little bridge and up a secondary road to Montelovesco . Just after bridge and before the three mile climb to Palazzo del Castaldo , stop and you 'll find the 11th century stone Abbey of Camporeggiano dated 1060 . Built before the Battle of Hastings , it is a place where thoughts of infinite peace irrepressibly come to mind . Palazzo del Castaldo Self Catering This is a most beautiful residence created with great love and care by the owners , the Vaiani family , who now offer a very warm welcome and generous hospitality .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
Where a listed company promotes an on - market " buy - in " of its shares , where the shareholders usually sell to an intermediary and the intermediary sells back to the company , the capital gains tax rules , rather than the ACT / distribution regime , will also apply as far as the vendor shareholders are concerned . Whichever buy - in regime applies , stamp duty is payable by Target at one - half per cent on the return of the cancelled shares . As a rule of thumb , if Target has sufficient distributable reserves to effect the purchase of its own shares , it will also have sufficient capacity to carry back against the preceding six years ' mainstream corporation tax all the ACT incurred on the distribution , so this should not be a real cost . Where , on a buy - in , the purchase price of Target 's shares is equal to or less than the subscription price ( ie , nominal value plus any share premium ) , there will not be any distribution within s209 so no ACT will be payable , but there will be a capital gains tax disposal by the shareholders . Note that because of the word " that " in s254(5 ) , the Revenue are known to hold the view that a distribution out of share premium account is nevertheless a distribution on which ACT is payable , in relation to shares other than those originally giving rise to the creation of the share premium account .
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
The obvious contradiction that this created between Reagan as campaigner and as governor was partly offset by compensatory reductions in property taxes . In addition , Reagan introduced a number of economies in line with his pledge at his inauguration ‘ to squeeze and cut and trim until we reduce the cost of government’ . An across the board budgetary cut of 10 per cent for all state departments was proposed ; there was to be a freeze on the hiring of state employees , a large reduction in the staffing of state mental hospitals and various other cost cutting measures . Within a short time , however , most of Reagan 's proposed changes had foundered either because they were inherently unworkable or because of his failure to consult with those who would have to approve the necessary changes in the law , i.e. members of the state legislature . As a reform candidate Reagan had made clear his low view of legislators , presenting them as the tools of special interests , primarily concerned with feathering their own nests .
Idiom: jump to conclusions (used idiomatically: yes)
Clearly there would be little point in reviewing the experience unless it helped you to reach some conclusions . The temptation is to jump to conclusions without arriving at them via a review . Unfortunately jumping to conclusions as a practice has a poor track record since , so frequently , they are proved to be inadequate or wrong . Concluding involves scanning the raw material from the review for conclusions , ‘ answers’ or lessons learned . There is no limit to the number or variety of different conclusions that can be reached at this stage in the process .
Idiom: all the rage (used idiomatically: yes)
The undergravel filter works very well , providing the fishkeeper carries out regular cleaning . Whether the fish enjoy this operation is another matter,— bear this in mind when stirring up silt and syphoning it out . Trickle filters at the moment appear to be all the rage , but no doubt you will have noticed their main usage has been applied to invert systems , where the organic load is not so great . Their turnover rate is somewhat slower than undergravels and what could be worrying about them is their ability to deal with sudden surges in load . The Queen Angle , Holocanthus cillaris is among the most beautiful marines .
Idiom: no man's land (used idiomatically: yes)
Epitot pushed aside the tent - flap and stared out into the night . Not clear black , but a fog - soaked grey , haloing the distant watch - fires of the enemy in a smudged orange blur , as if a thumb had been smeared across a landscape canvas . And in the space between , the dank void of no - man 's - land . ‘ No , she 's given us the slip again , damn it.’ He dropped the flap , expunging the chill reminder of the morrow .
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: yes)
[ See Fig . 4 ] Hess did not appreciate the significance of these strip reversals , but Vine and Matthews did , and they suggested that while the ' sea - floor spreading ' concept was basically right , it could be refined and that instead of the simple kind of gigantic conveyor belt that Hess had conceived , with oceanic crust being generated at the ridges and moving away in opposite directions , the situation was much more like that of a conveyor belt - cum - tape recorder . As the moving convection cell carries basaltic crust away from the ridge , slowly but continuously , the magnetic reversals taking place every few hundred thousand years or so leave their imprints on the newly - formed rocks emerging from the ridge ; as every reversal occurs , so it is recorded in the formation of reversely - magnetized strips on each side of the ridge . Once a strip of new ocean floor has been formed , and acquired its magnetic recording , nothing further happens to it , but it continues to move away slowly from the ridge , at a rate of anything up to several centimetres per year . Three implications followed immediately from Vine and Matthews 's brilliantly original modification of sea - floor spreading : first , the ' strips ' should always be parallel to the ridge axes ; second , they should be symmetrical about the ridge , so that the strips on one side are mirror images of those on the other ; third , and most important , the rocks furthest away from the ridge should be older than those nearest to it .
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
A third is the defence of public services more generally . A trade unionism that is paralysed by an obsession with parliamentary lobbying and television training for general secretaries can scarcely expect to win the wholehearted support even of its own members , let alone women engaged in domestic labour , part - time workers or the unemployed . The ‘ gulf … between the formal structures and machinery of government of the unions and the rank - and - file membership’ , combined with traditional union hostility towards what it sees as parallel organisation , is a major cause of the current crisis of trade unionism in particular and the predicament of the working class more generally . The miners ' strike revealed the range of new movements and organisations which have been arenas , if complex and contradictory , for the development of working - class culture and working - class consciousness , promising to broaden traditional conceptions of the composition and objectives of the labour movement yet also portraying the unions ' capacity to ignore that potential when it stepped beyond the domestic and controllable to stake its own claims for recognition . For working - class people , the crisis — economic , political or cultural — is being experienced above all at the local level yet is the outcome of unprecedentedly global forces .
Idiom: with a will (used idiomatically: no)
Michele followed her in with steaming bowls of soup , a cheese board , and a selection of fresh fruit . After the first spoonful of the thick and satisfying minestrone , Luce found she was ravenous . She ate with a will and , having scraped the bowl , murmured , ‘ Mmm … that was delicious.’ He grinned briefly . ‘ Although I say it myself , I 'm pretty good with a tin - opener.’
Idiom: watering hole (used idiomatically: no)
A group of us were able to provide almost all the funding to set up a pump and latrines for one particular village in India . Nearly four in five of these people are landless and can hardly scratch a bare living . They are most grateful for a pump within yards of their homes , instead of having to walk a long way to a dirty water - hole . I hope that Mr. Blackham will remember them when he turns on a tap in his own kitchen . E. Dawson , 12 Goodwood Close , Alton .
Idiom: get stuck into (used idiomatically: yes)
So your role is more a checking and writing one , similar to what Helen . Yes , well with the staff I 've got , yes , they 're all there . At night - times I 've got my jobs to get stuck into on the shopfloor as well , just hope that everybody works as a strong team basically . Yes , does anybody here not delegate ? I did delegate , but I wo n't do it now , I do literally
Idiom: hit the mark (used idiomatically: yes)
' So I am correct ? ' ' That 's not what I said , and you know it . ' But Speich 's arrow , fired I wo n't say in the dark but certainly the gloom , appeared to have hit its mark . De Gaulle looked agitated . ' You told them who gave the note to you ? ' the American lady asked in a tone of high disbelief .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes . there was a er a fairly good er fairly good er M P , a fellow named Seymour Cox . Er , he was not a brilliant orator , er but er by and large he was er he was er he he he was he he was a pretty good and well respected er member of parliament . Erm , if we can just talk a bit about the the the activities , the question of the demonstrations against unemployment , what did you actually do to to aid those demonstrations ? Were these the national marches as well as local ones ?
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
The death of key member Ricky Wilson in 1985 of Aids - related cancer , virtually grounded the band , who had n't enjoyed anything like a hit since 1981 's remix EP , Party Mix . Wilson 's last recordings with them , the LP Bouncing off the Satellites , did little to reverse their artistic and financial decline . It seemed they would only be remembered for the effervescent day - glo Sixties pop which took popular root in Manhattan 's late Seventies downtown scene , where the songs Rock Lobster and Planet Claire first became free - spirited party anthems . But Fred Schneider , Kate Pearson , Keith Strickland and Wilson 's sister , Cindy , decided to try again , eventually entering the studio with producer Don Was to create the upbeat LP Cosmic Thing which contained a Motown - fuelled afterthought called Love Shack , the song which would relaunch their careers . Success has n't solved all their problems — Cindy Wilson has taken time off to be temporarily replaced by David Lynch 's protegee Julee Cruise — but it has put the bounce back into the bouffant bop from which their name is derived ( a B-52 being a hairdo ) .
Idiom: belt and braces (used idiomatically: yes)
Money will be spread more thinly and the companies may become more reluctant to fund minority appeal programmes , particularly big budget documentaries.’ This was the fear behind Melvyn Bragg 's initial plea for a millionaire to sponsor LWT 's South Bank Show . He insisted that it was a precautionary ‘ belt and braces’ measure for tougher times ahead . The swift intervention by his managing director , Brian Tesler , underlined the extreme sensitivity ITV feels on the subject . Jon Marchant , Granada 's sponsorship controller , was a principal negotiator on the PowerGen deal and is drawing up ITV 's plan to put next year 's World Cup sponsorship out to tender .
Idiom: rough edges (used idiomatically: no)
It seemed important to let him know what construction she intended to put on his words . He scarcely seemed to hear what she said . There was a rough , slightly husky edge to his voice as he went on , ' That 's a very eye - catching garment you 're wearing . A present from the boyfriend , no doubt ? But he 's not here to see it , is he ? '
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
Bob Henry , you must be aware of some of the criticisms which were levelled at the companies which were put out by arts associations , where they say really it 's very self - indulgent and nobody much goes to see this particular type of dance group . What do you say to that ? I would say that it is our job to let people judge for themselves and have the opportunity to see controversial productions , whether it 's dance or drama , and unless people have the opportunity , and unless the companies are given the chance to perform their own thing , that drama and dance in the long run will die . But given the shortage of money , ought not some of that money go towards preserving some of the great companies who are now under great pressure ? A great deal of money does go to preserving those companies like the National , the Royal Shakespeare , etc . , and even in this region we have three regional repertory theatres who generally present very establishment shows , very middle of the road productions .
Idiom: twist someone's arm (used idiomatically: yes)
So really what you 're saying is that if we 're looking at trip wires to stop things happening , there 's a power a really powerful case for a pensioner trustee , but you 're looking for whistle blowers . Yes . There 's also a powerful case for having pensioner trustees that they will so there 's far less chance of erm people twisting their arm , although they could have the carrot dangled in front of them . that 's But that 's the problem we all face is n't it .
Idiom: jump to conclusions (used idiomatically: yes)
Vitor demanded , a bite in his voice . Ashley looked at him . She was not going to jump to any more dubious conclusions . She refused to make any further wild and unfair assertions . At one time she might have considered Vitor to be a dyed - in - the - wool monster , but she was gradually reassessing her opinion .