Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: all along (used idiomatically: yes)
Situated right on the main promenade of Viareggio , the Hotel Liberty will best suit the more independently minded as it is offered on a bed and breakfast only basis , leaving guests free to set their own meal times . For those choosing this option — happy to explore and sample the local specialities — there is certainly no shortage of restaurants , cafés , trattorie and bars nearby . From here too visitors are ideally placed to discover the wealth of exclusive boutiques and designer names displayed all along the promenade . The bedrooms , although fairly basic , are adequately furnished and have a telephone . The Liberty has a lounge and bar serving soft , cold drinks , and a lift to the penultimate floor .
Idiom: tempt fate (used idiomatically: yes)
The navigator ( Sgt . Alexander ) , in spite of being wedged within the narrow confines of the glass nose , managed to scramble out , and descended safely by parachute . And at barely 250 feet ( after holding the aircraft steady to allow Alexander to get out ) , the pilot himself went head first over the side . But to bale out at 250 feet was tempting Fate too much — and although the parachute had just time to spring out of its canvas cover before the pilot hit the ground , no time remained for the canopy to open and check his fall . Incredible to believe , although he had fallen unchecked for over 200 feet , onto solid rock below , the pilot was still alive , although dying from multiple injuries . ' I think I must have left things a bit late ' , was all he said .
Idiom: sleep rough (used idiomatically: yes)
Although both candidates were Democrats , Jordan , a former chief of police , epitomized the opposition by white heterosexual conservatives towards what they perceived as the city 's minority - dominated , pro - homosexual culture as symbolized by Agnos , a former social worker . The position of Agnos had been undermined by a large budget deficit ( much of it inherited ) , the effects of the country 's economic recession and the legacy of the 1989 earthquake [ see pp . 36970 - 71 ] . Polls suggested that the key election issue for voters , however , was the 8,000 or so homeless people estimated to be sleeping rough within the city . Earlier in the year Jordan had called for the homeless to be set to work on a state - run farm . Although he distanced himself from this view prior to the election , he campaigned strongly on the promise to " return safe and clean streets " .
Idiom: out of sight (used idiomatically: yes)
We have a right and a duty as a community to do all that is lawfully in our power to prevent its being disfigured or destroyed’ . Dr Cassidy put forward fairly Burmin 's assertions that gold mining on Croagh Patrick would in no way interfere with the pilgrimage : ‘ I say in all fairness that should planning permission for mining ever be granted Burmin have given me repeated assurances that there will be no interference with the Pilgrim Path , there would be no interference with Patrick 's Peak or that particular part of the mountain range.’ ‘ Again , in the event that planning permission is granted , they have indicated their intention of tunnelling into the mountain from behind , at a point which is uninhabited and out of sight from the road at least’ . These concessions from the mining company seemed to point to another Irish solution to an Irish problem —‘We'll do it but we 'll do it out of sight’ . Early in July Gold EIA and CEMP undertook their public scoping hearings .
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ One thing disappoints me,’ Maria mentioned mischievously against Luke 's shoulder . ‘ What?’ ‘ Back there in the lift earlier you did n't instantly and gallantly leap to my defence and punch Florian on the nose when he was carrying on about how undesirable I am!’ Luke laughed , the movement shaking her gently . ‘ I was too riveted by what I was learning , but I 'll do it next time I see him , if you insist , only …
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
They 'd just come in , as it were , from the street , through the palaestra , the games courts and exercise ground , and into the cold room . The chaps who wanted the cold plunge would undress and leave their things in lockers there , and there were two small cold basins to swim in — two here , anyhow — one on either side . The sybarites who wanted the hot water bath or the hot air bath would pass through into the slightly heated room one stage farther in , and undress there , then go on in to whichever they fancied . The hypocaust ran under both . If you were fond of hot water , you wallowed in a sunken basin .
Idiom: throw a wobbly (used idiomatically: no)
I suggested that help might come from friends who 'd been through the same scenario , or from genuinely sympathetic relatives ( but not critical ones ! ) . With children 's tantrums , you 'll find the old child - rearing catchphrase ‘ They 'll grow out of it’ usually holds true . It may help to keep this in mind next time your two - year - old throws a wobbly at the supermarket checkout . Coping with tantrums If you were Carole , how would you handle the situation ?
Idiom: all wet (used idiomatically: yes)
A years ' worth of ZZAP ! and freebies too — just twenty - four pounds is the price to you ( guv'nor ) . So do n't be a ' nana , there 's no time for delay … fill in your coupon and post it today . Then sit back , relax , and just take it easy , you wo n't have to go out when it 's all wet and breezy . So Wordsworth we ai n't , nor Tennyson either , but would you 've got offers like this off one of those geezers ? ( Gifts available to UK residents only )
Idiom: in the driving seat (used idiomatically: yes)
It was a stunning performance , and certainly one of the finest that the league has ever produced . Down in the dungeon of the first division , Rosslyn Park and Nottingham are still to get off the mark . In the driving seat to replace whoever goes down are London Scottish . Their 7–6 win over previously unbeaten West Hartlepool leaves then as one of only two unbeaten teams in the Courage national divisions . Sale ' s 16–6 win over Bedford hoists them to the second promotion slot .
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: yes)
Ten yards ahead we are passing the cut - through beneath the viaduct . Des relaxes his shoulders , and suddenly there 's a roar like a dragon dying , and about twenty visored policemen come backing into the far end of the tunnel under a hail of bricks and missiles from their front . They pay no attention to us , so for a moment we can gawp in safety behind the scenes with the boys in blue . Then an orange light flares in front of them , and I know some joker has thrown the first Molotov . Another explodes before we run .
Idiom: pull out all the stops (used idiomatically: yes)
It was a matter of concern , she said , that no money was included in the council 's 1993/94 budget to continue the six units , at Bangor , Deganwy , Caernarfon , Llangefni , Pwllheli and Blaenau Ffestiniog , beyond August . She said : ‘ We are guilty of failing to provide for what is clearly a statutory service and I am truly appalled that we slipped up so badly and made such a serious mistake . ‘ These units are enormously helpful to parents and we must pull out all the stops to find the money to keep the units open . ‘ We must assist these children and I am told there are already 30 children on the waiting list for assessment.’ Committee chairman , Coun Handel Morgan , said the funding had been earmarked in the education committee estimates but was deleted by the policy committee and full county council .
Idiom: on the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
In other words , are observed platelet abnormalities related to the disturbed metabolic state of diabetes or are they secondary to the presence of vascular disease ? More recent studies have attempted to overcome this problem by electively studying diabetics free from clinical evidence of vascular disease . However , it is difficult to be completely sure of the absence of vascular disease on clinical grounds alone and , for this reason , some groups have studied platelet function in diabetic children and adolescents in whom vascular disease would be unlikely . Platelet-adhesion studies Early studies of platelet function in diabetes used in vitro tests of platelet adhesion .
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
March , the Secretary of State told me in a parliamentary answer that he was setting in train a new procedure for the appointment of a successor to Eric Bolton . He said that the post would be advertised , which was duly done at some cost to the public purse . Then , on 8 May , the Secretary of State suddenly announced out of the blue that the advertising of that post was to be put on ice . He said that instead there would be a thorough internal review of the inspectorate , which would report by July . In answer to further questions from me , he said that no formal evidence would be sought but that there would be wide informal consultation .
Idiom: make light work of (used idiomatically: yes)
Patsy Kensit , star of Absolute Beginners and Lethal Weapon 2 , took the extra burden in her stride . Blonde Patsy , who is eight months pregnant , looked a far cry from the willowy screen siren bedded by Mel Gibson . But she made light work of polishing off the shopping at a supermarket near her West London home . Patsy , 24 , wearing a loose - fitting dress and comfy sandals , filled eight carriers when she unloaded her trolley . Her husband , Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr , was nowhere in sight when she loaded the bags of goodies into her BMW .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
Maggie did not want to take her arms away from Phoebe , she needed to be held . Phoebe was both gentle and firm . In the light of kitchen she sat Maggie down and started to brush gently at her shoulders , but after a minute or so she said , ‘ I think the shower would work better ; let's go to the bathroom . ’ She made Maggie kneel down and lean her head over the bathtub , just as she had when Maggie had to have her hair washed as a little child .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: no)
Is not utilitarianism , for example , a form of morality , and does it not differ from the kind of morality that one might associate with a religious form of life ? Gandhi would reject the eudaemonistic consequentialism of utilitarianism as limited in its objective and lacking in humanity . On the face of it , therefore , it would not seem possible to maintain the view that morality without religion is unthinkable , or like a house built on sand . The same does not apply to the view that religion can not be divorced from a form of morality . A religious man may not always succeed in living in accordance with his ideal but that does not mean that he has abandoned his ideal .
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
After all , the family is hardly on the breadline . We might have problems with the business , but Chester 's has always had money , always been relatively well - off landowners , even before your grandparents began printing fabrics!’ Virginia pulled a face at her sister - in - law , but she was pensive as she leaned back in her chair and stared through the glass conservatory at the manicured lawns and high , shaven box hedges beyond . Suddenly she was beset with self - doubt . It was possible that ideals could sometimes get tangled up with prejudices .
Idiom: home and dry (used idiomatically: yes)
Laverne did me a great service of showing me a few of the local species.’ She looks very disbelieving , and who can blame her ? I want to see Laverne home and dry , yet I do n't want to carry on feeding passenger leeches a minute longer . ‘ If the blame is to be laid at anyone 's door , it was simply my over - zealous attempts to get closer to the wildlife . Laverne is very much the innocent party.’
Idiom: grind to a halt (used idiomatically: yes)
And he still did n't know any details of Evelyn 's job with INCUBUS . She had evaded every probing question on that subject . As the traffic ground to a halt he glanced round and then behind him . Two vehicles back the black limo was in sight . Impossible to see who the passenger in the rear seat was .
Idiom: separate the wheat from the chaff (used idiomatically: yes)
There 's plenty of evidence of Ralph 's catholic tastes in collecting . So alongside the tractors , is a 1930s Royal Enfield motorcycle and even a horsedrawn hoe called a Hereford skimmer . Elsewhere , there 's a locally made 60 year old winnowing machine for separating the wheat from the chaff and even some ancient milk churns . Male speaker He 's expecting interest from all over Britain and abroad in the sale .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
It all started when wine buff Liz entered another competition in the Express . Answering questions about the Burgundy region and Burgundy wines won her a place on the inaugural cruise of a new P&O England - France ferry , Pride of Burgundy . While on board she entered another competition , played with scratch cards , and scooped the car . ‘ Friends at work were telling me I was a lucky so - and - so when I won the trip — but their comments were unrepeatable when they found out I had won the car as well.’ Now Liz and husband Morris are to sell their Sierra and take to the road in the sparkling new Citroen .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
The distress of your loss might make you see things . It is only natural . ' He was out of place among the pots and pans and plaster Alsatians and bread crocks ; he was an Easter Island figure , ungainly and antique , put together on another , earlier pattern than that of most men , so that you would not guess , to look at him , that he had a loving heart . His sweetness was as unexpected and overwhelming as that of the spring in his own country where the fields grow rocks , only , and a little grass . She finished her tea .
Idiom: lay odds (used idiomatically: yes)
The PGL will be playing at St. James ' Gate , Leinster and Crumlin . LAYOUT AGREED THE LAYOUT of the bookmakers ' pitches at Down Royal has long been a bone of contention , with bottlenecks the main drawback , causing frustration among the punters — and no doubt among the men who lay the odds as well . Now , however a new layout has been agreed by the course bookmakers association and the racecourse executive which could take much of the hassle out of betting at the track . At least that 's what is planned , anyway .
Idiom: stroke of luck (used idiomatically: yes)
There was a general belief that our terms would not attract many takers and there was a suspicion that the Government did not really have its heart in the project in any event . Over the next months , rival consortia considered how to finance the new investment while at the Transport Department we could do little more than wait . Then , eighteen months later , we had an exceptional stroke of luck which entirely transformed the position . In September 1981 the newly elected President Mitterrand came to London . He brought with him , among others , the new Communist Transport Minister , Charles Fiterman , whom I had met the previous week .
Idiom: odds and ends (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Time 's up,’ snapped Miss Martindale , approaching the crimson - cheeked labourer , and counting out one - and - eightpence — all in coppers — into her blistered palm . Breeze thanked her and picked up the fork . As she passed the back door she noticed that the lid had fallen off the dustbin and the fresh spring wind was playing havoc with the bits of paper and odds and ends that lay strewn on the tiled path . As a matter of course she picked them up , spearing them with her fork and not pausing until she had collected them all , and replaced the lid . ‘ I suppose,’ said Miss Martindale 's voice behind her , ‘ you want an extra twopence for that.’
Idiom: one of those things (used idiomatically: yes)
erm this is , I think , one of the dilemmas we have in our society at the moment . In fact one of the things that 's most disturbed me about some of the recent discussions that have taken place in the great debate has been that on the one hand people have talked about educating people for adult life and learning more about the way people earn their living , learning more about industry , more about productive things , and on the other hand they 've been talking about maintaining standards . Now it 's one of those unfortunate things that when people talk about maintaining standards , the only sort of , in an sense , external sort of guidance they 've got to go for are things like examination passes . Now I do n't think many people realized that asking for the maintenance of standards , rather than perhaps the changing of standards , was asking for something that was almost diametrically opposed to asking for an educational system that was more geared towards preparing children for adult life and productive work . erm until some of the people who are putting a lot of pressures on schools to do different things are prepared to resolve some of these contradictions , I think the teachers feel that they 're being continually criticised by different groups for not doing different things , many of which are mutually contradictory , erm and not surprisingly they feel a little defensive in this situation .
Idiom: fight fire with fire (used idiomatically: no)
Skinheads had converged from all over the metropolis to hear the 4-Skins play in the heart of London 's Asian community . The analogy with the Falklands crisis and the Falklands ‘ spirit’ looks all too obvious now : true blue , white British boys , determined to win back the ‘ burglar 's spoils’ , set out to defend the bridgehead deep inside ‘ enemy territory’ . In answer to a series of provocations ( young skins distributing Robert Relf leaflets , insulting Asian women etc ) , the Southall Asian Youth Movement decided to fight fire with fire . They burned the place down . One member of the 4-Skins , protesting his innocence of any B.M / N.F involvement to a journalist the next day , told a story which under less dire circumstances could rival the best of Buster Keaton in terms of pathos , slapstick and deadpan gallows humour .
Idiom: once and for all (used idiomatically: yes)
There was no doubt that they were expected to admire the former and scorn the latter ; anyone misguided enough to get the preference the wrong way round , would be regarded as at best naïve and misguided , and at worst corrupted in sensibility . Denys Thompson 's Reading and Discrimination ( 1934 ) is a collection of such comparative exercises . Leavisism assumed that its rewriting of the canon had a once - and - for - all quality , so that it was inconceivable that anyone could come to admire Shelley again , though this is precisely what has happened under the influence of Harold Bloom , who is dedicated to overturning the Eliot - Leavis version of poetic history . The attempt to enforce an evaluative criticism in the academy inevitably results in rigidity and dogmatism and , ultimately , a form of brainwashing . Leavisites , of course , claimed that they were committed to discussion , argument , the free play of mind ; in so far as they were , it was contained within the enclosing form of life , not directed against it , rather like arguments within Marxist - Leninist ideology .
Idiom: eat someone alive (used idiomatically: yes)
Or perhaps you would like to come in and dance . " She laughed . " There 's only one thing I 'd like to do , beloved , and that 's eat you alive . Do you know that I eat little boys like you for breakfast ? " I giggled nervously .
Idiom: with a will (used idiomatically: no)
On 16 April the House Budget Committee reported out a budget resolution that incorporated $ 15.8 billion in cuts — $ 20 billion less than the administration had requested — and the battle was now joined for the votes of those who could make or break the president 's programme , the Gypsy Moths and the Boll Weevils . The chances of the Democrats succeeding in this crucial struggle were not helped by the Speaker who , after a trip abroad , gave a ' dispirited news conference ' where he said , ' I can read Congress . They go with the will of the people and the will of the people is to go along with the President , I 've been in politics a long time . I know when you fight and when you do n't . ' The president , meanwhile , stood high in the public opinion polls after the attempt to assassinate him at the end of March .
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: no)
I think Well do you think this really impress er Lisa ? I 'll have a word with her when she 's awake , she 's still on a third dream I should think at the moment but she 's er , certainly good talking , I could , I could try and get her without her knowing about it and see what happens , just dinner time I 'll take it down and try it , oh you 're gon na take it round Steve 's ai n't you ? Today Oh yes well you can perhaps do it tomorrow
Idiom: cramp someone's style (used idiomatically: yes)
Rupert , left alone with Ianthe and Penelope , found himself heaving a sigh of relief , flopping down into a chair , and suggesting a cup of tea . ‘ See how influenced by church life I 've become,’ he said . Now that he was left alone with the two women , both of whom ( he imagined ) rather admired him , Rupert felt a sense of power , though there being two of them rather limited the scope of what he could do — cramped his style , he might almost have said . In the end , after the tea had been made and drunk , there seemed nothing for it but to escort them home , leaving Ianthe at her front door and walking the short distance to the vicarage with Penelope . As he had helped her on with her coat , Rupert had noticed her dress had split at the back , which he found provocative and rather endearing .
Idiom: put the boot in (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ When you 're violent you become very lonely . That 's why I call this song ‘ The Sad Skinhead’.’ Faust plug back in and put the boot in with a vengeance . Equally fine is a snippet from ‘ The Faust Tapes’ , the section that has words that go , ‘ shake my buddah … ’ or something . this soon tangles itself in a web of white noise and frantic improvisation which eventually has a hypnotising effect on the audience .
Idiom: hold water (used idiomatically: yes)
We are told that foxes are vermin and it is necessary to hunt them down . Mr Chairman , if decent people find it necessary er to kill animals they believe be vermin they do n't dress up in red coats and call them pink and er charge er , er , er , about er drinking st stirrup cups and tooting horns , er they go out and kill the vermin , it 's a necessary job that has to be done and of course , er there are many ways in which foxes could be killed without cruelty if it is necessary to kill them . Another objection is that jobs will be lost and certainly that would be a serious objection but it 's a speechless one , of course , people who can afford it will still ride and will still employ the same people who are now hunt servants er to look after their horses and themselves and those who ca n't afford horses will continue no doubt to enjoy the spectacle er , that argument does n't hold water and the other objection of course er is that er it would mean the hounds were killed , but since I understand er hunting people kill their hounds anyway when they get too old to keep up , er I think er we can dismiss that argument and leave it to them er to see that the hounds are decently dealt with . Well done . Yes , thank you Chair .