Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: on someone's mind (used idiomatically: yes)
By November 1944 , only the Bristol 167 and the Type 2 aircraft , the twin - engine Airspeed 67 , had gone much past the preliminary design stage , and the Brabazon Committee warned that the five new types would face obsolescence if their development were not speeded up . Part of the problem was the less than perfect relationship between the Air Ministry and BOAC , which would have to operate the new aircraft . BOAC clearly had profit on its mind , and wanted its requirements incorporated into the new designs , but these were only partially met . In October 1944 , Lord Knollys , the BOAC chairman , told a meeting held in the Ministry of Aircraft production that the Brabazon Type 3 would be the airline 's ‘ bread and butter’ aircraft for Empire routes , carrying twenty - five sleepers or forty to forty - five day passengers . It was to be a four - engine aircraft , possibly with gas turbines , with a range of 2,750 miles .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: no)
These make it easy to control the tool , but it is still best to sand surfaces horizontally whenever possible . The on/off switch at the top of the main handle is very easy to operate with the thumb . The sander has a smooth and powerful 520watt motor and its easy action is helped by the ball-bearing construction . The pad oscillates very fast ( 10,000 orbits/min ) , with an orbit diameter of 2.4mm , and this makes for quick and efficient swirl-free sanding . The dust extraction system is quite efficient ; it certainly keeps a lot of the dust out of the air , but there is still quite a bit of dust on the surface of the workpiece after you finish sanding .
Idiom: call the shots (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We spend more in Britain of our national wealth on education than do the Germans and the Japanese . ‘ Neil Kinnock believes that management by politicians through the local council is the way to run schools . We believe in parents and teachers calling the shots.’ And he pointed out the themes of the Tory campaign were opportunity , choice , ownership and responsibility . ‘ We want to reduce the power of the government over people .
Idiom: go to town (used idiomatically: no)
He must have been on his way to Jordan 's place . Where else could he have been going ? If he was going to the town he would have gone straight down Buller 's Hill and been there in ten minutes . ' Wycliffe shook his head . ' You may be right but do n't let 's get hooked on one idea .
Idiom: in bed with (used idiomatically: yes)
She wanted to say , Please say something to me , please talk , but he had her still by her nipples and was pulling her towards him , then pushing her back . She tried to take his hands away , and he raised them both , and patted the air , as if to say , ‘ All right , all right , I was only doing what you wanted.’ She stepped sideways , she did n't want to pull away from him but all the same this time she would have liked to wake up from her somnambulism to find herself back in bed with Cati , dreaming of sweetness and lovers ' words , but he pressed close to her , and said , ‘ You ca n't go yet , not yet . We have n't done anything , together , yet.’ It was the first time she heard him use ‘ we’ and ‘ together’ ; the words entered her consciousness like comets , blazing .
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: yes)
Just as the wolf will chase its prey , Fido chases his ball . In the heat of the moment , the grey - coated wolf will wrestle with its quarry and Fido will violently shake rags until they lie motionless or chew squeaky toys until they squeak no more . The pack will pull the carcass apart , competing for the best of the kill , and Fido plays tug - of - war games , hoping to win the toy . Once successful , he will run around and not allow you to get hold of his prize . Not only do dogs play games to exercise their hunting skills , they play to determine who is boss .
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
But it was one thing to tell myself that and another to act on it with any conviction . Up until then most of John 's friends and colleagues had heard any news in rather a fragmented way at parties or in the pub , which was frustrating for them . I had discussed the possibility of a proper campaign with several friends over the past months and the idea had taken root in my mind . It now seemed to be the time to put the plan into action ; the frustration and anger following Auque 's and Normandin 's release was the final shove I needed . I knew I could count on friends and colleagues to support a campaign .
Idiom: on the stump (used idiomatically: yes)
He first of all asked for a mandate based not on the distortions of a month 's electioneering but on his 16 months in the leadership , not least his performance on the international stage . He did not disavow Thatcherism but made plain his distance in both style and substance . Throughout the weeks on the stump he remained entirely amiable , even if his nice smile sometimes seemed the work of a plastic surgeon . On the whole his face gave little away , unlike Mr Kinnock 's , where emotion raced like the shadows of cloud and splashes of sunshine over a landscape . Mr Major talked abundantly , often tediously , about tax , because he believed that in the sanctuary of the polling booth people would feel their fearful hearts pounding against their wallets .
Idiom: turn the screw (used idiomatically: yes)
Before dawn Harry had set them to work collecting up any combustible material they could find ; pieces of shattered furniture , empty ammunition cases , even books . Then , assisted by Ram and Mohammed , he had built a crude furnace of bricks on the verandah in which to heat up the shot . Now his heart was thumping as he turned the elevating screw past five degrees . Until he reached five degrees he had found that it turned easily , through long use … but now it became stiff and awkward . Yet Harry continued to turn .
Idiom: cut both ways (used idiomatically: yes)
See if there is any offensive way in me , and lead me in the way everlasting . Such inmost knowledge can cut both ways . Without love it would be a terrifying experience . Or it could be the deepest level of intimacy and trust .
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
We had languished yesterday . Today we were in the Ogwen valley , in indifferent weather , wondering what to do . A big peak was out of the question ; it was a little too late , a little too wet and miserable . It was a day for fingering duvets in Capel Curig or Betws , but Nathan , though difficult to start on cold mornings , was active once moving and would find that too dull . We parked downhill from the cottage and ambled over to the top of the falls .
Idiom: under the table (used idiomatically: yes)
After lunch on the Sunday before his Chanel show , eaten with his workroom staff and assistants in the workers ' canteen on the top floor of the rue Cambon , Lagerfeld holds what can only be described as an old - fashioned levée . Members of his court such as Diane de Beauveau Craon , her stepmother Laure and certain editors are invited to sit in at the studio for a preview . By ten past four there are nearly 30 people standing , sitting , talking and a well - behaved Jack Russell is being fed bon - bons under the table . Lagerfeld has temporarily switched off , leafing through a magazine and soliciting opinions on each advertisement , each editorial page , and being rude about them . He has a voracious intelligence which he dismisses as ‘ just a curious mind , but limited because of a lot of things I do n't care for .
Idiom: roll with the punches (used idiomatically: yes)
I find myself very much in the middle , and I have n't decided yet which it will be . Instead , I have decided to give myself time . After all , time is really what this is all about — whether it is friend or enemy , whether to roll with its punches or fight back . The differences between who we are and who we are becoming . And you thought it was about hair .
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: yes)
er somebody said well the , the table 's , we 'd been to French in the morning and I had n't realized that the table 's Yes , in the youth club . in the youth club Yes . and erm they 'd sort of asked and said , you know , it 's possible .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: yes)
For a write - off of £ 471,000 , the company has pulled out of freight - forwarding from all but one South American country , Venezuela , because of the problems of repatriating earnings and coping with hyper - inflation . John Read , the chairman , said that Profit Freight Systems , the company 's 59 per cent owned US arm , lost £ 1.5 m after running into a price battle with a competitor . PFS expects to be back in the black for the full year . Prem , LEP 's new testing equipment for the Aids virus , is now on the market and should make a ‘ useful contribution’ to profits this year . The interim dividend is up from 1.45p to 1.75p .
Idiom: out cold (used idiomatically: yes)
He should be allowed home in 24 hours . Tyson 's ‘ ex’ KOs romeo JAILED boxer Mike Tyson 's ex - wife knocked a foulmouthed casanova out cold . Actress Robin Givens gave the man a bloody nose after he mistook her for a hooker while she was filming in Chicago . FURY : Robin
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
This new interest has not relied simply on a moral redefinition of ' crime ' to draw attention to analogous , but uncriminalised , activities of the ruling class ( although that has been part of it ) . Much work has centred on activities that are criminal , by contemporary definitions , but are hidden and undetected — one of the greatest benefits of power being the privacy and impunity that it seems to guarantee ( see Geis and Stotland , 1980 ) . On the face of it , however , this does not seem to favour an anti - correctionalist position , but rather a redirection of its focus from lower - to upper - class crime . But that would be to ignore the taken - for - granted causal - corrective argument of left idealism : that ruling - class crime , like so - called working - class crime , can only be eliminated by the transition to socialism ; anything else would be useless tinkering . However , if this is not taken as proven , and if everything is not to be left to the socialist revolution , the evidence about ruling - class crime suggests , if anything , an extension of the scope of correctionalist criminology rather than its rejection .
Idiom: on the ropes (used idiomatically: yes)
Rock - climbers make sure they have lots of metal implements swinging from them at all times . This , I must confess , is quite sexy , in the same way that young , handsome joiners with their belt of tools strung low round their hips can make an impressionable adolescent girl want to have shelves erected . The rock - climber is held on a rope by clipping himself on to a harness thingy ( if you 've come to this book for technical information , boy are you going to be disappointed ) that straps round his thighs and crotch , so as a quick guide to who the climbers are in the pub , just watch for those who seem to be constantly fiddling around in their genital area . I 've noticed climbers do this a lot . Before any girls get excited at the prospect of all these crotch - obsessed men packing out Glencoe bars , and rush off to join a climbing club , I should point out they also smell like a circus tarpaulin and regard ten pints of Guinness as an aperitif .
Idiom: out of kilter (used idiomatically: yes)
Vainly did I imagine that such sweet harmonies would calm my violent grief.’ Ritornellos from the Symphonie and the singer 's reiterated appeals for silence imaginatively depict his mood ( movement 2 : Récitatif ) . A rhythmic motive from the Symphonie generates the next movement , an air still in the tonic in which word - stress and musical rhythm are ( deliberately ? ) out of kilter ( ex.12 ) . There follow a lament ( E minor ) , thoughts of revenge ( E major ) , self - reproach ( B minor ) , and further attempts at distraction ( E major ) . The lover 's eventual notion of seeking death at the hand of his lady ( movement 9 : E minor ) is dispelled by a few bars for ‘ Violons’ and continuo , reminiscent of the quiet opening movements , but in a slower tempo .
Idiom: warts and all (used idiomatically: yes)
Autobiographies , ghosted or not , and ' humorous ' essays tend to lurk in the literary equivalent of shark - infested waters . One notable exception to the bland , sanitised image - building that marks many a sporting biography is Jonathan , the story of perhaps the most gifted Welsh fly - half the Lions never had . Written by Peter Corrigan , with first - person inserts from JDavies , this handsome book is about as close as one can get to a warts - and - all picture of an ambitious international player . The loss of Davies to Widnes last January has cast a long shadow over British rugby . What a difference he could have made to the Barbarians in their recent clash with the All Blacks .
Idiom: on ice (used idiomatically: yes)
The complexes were separated by agarose gel electrophoresis , the position of the complexes was identified by autoradiography , cut out , treated with piperidine and separated by acrylamide gel electrophoresis as described ( 18 ) . UV - cross linking experiments Radioactively labelled oligonucleotides were complexed with nuclear proteins and irradiated on ice for 5 minutes with an UV - lamp ( 253 nm ) at a distance of 3,5 cm . Complexes were separated by agarose gel electrophoresis . Retarded complexes were cut out of the gel , incubated with PAGE - running buffer for 3 minutes at 60 C and separated on 10 % polyacrylamide gels ( 18 ) .
Idiom: once and for all (used idiomatically: yes)
The Sino - American Test in North ~ Korea MADRID – Repeated threats from North ~ Korea have turned the Korean Peninsula into one of the world ’s most dangerous hotspots . But the situation also offers an important opportunity : a gain in strategic trust between China and the United ~ States , the two countries with the capacity to resolve the tensions once and for all . If they manage to cooperate constructively in order to shape a peace acceptable to all sides , this would make not only Korea , but also the region and the world , a safer place . Ten years after opting out of the Nuclear Non - Proliferation Treaty , North ~ Korea clearly possesses nuclear ~ weapons .
Idiom: out of sorts (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Mercy on us , Jess . How you do dart about . You look quite out of sorts . Is anything the matter?’ ‘ No miss!’
Idiom: chapter and verse (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain . Well , apparently that used to be the official advice er and , and we were correct in that but the authorities have now changed their minds and they no longer want us to pour waste chemical down the drains and I gather that the official advice now is that surplus diluted chemical should be poured , and I 'm quoting here , on to more or less level and bare soil in the garden or on to level gravelled paths , avoid disposal in areas around ponds , erm water courses and so forth , dishes and , and what have you and as far as undiluted chemicals are concerned , that 's stuff still in the bottle , the advice there is to talk to your local authority cos they have different regulations in different areas . If anyone wants chapter and verse on this the erm address of the British Agro - chemicals Association who put out this literature will be on our fact sheet . Now remember some years ago , and I remember this , that we said that it would inadvisable to collect rain water off a new felt roof . What he wants to know Daphne is , for how long should he wait ?
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
Ah ah oh ! Pity , Emma 's decided she 's bringing a camera now and she reckons he bringing his ! And I said no fucking way you 'll get any pictures of me having a bang ! And Andrew goes oh , is this going to be let Joanne everybody with a picture ! I 've
Idiom: plain sailing (used idiomatically: yes)
And these disciples and Jesus , some of them seasoned , experienced fishermen , they 'd been fishermen all their lives , their fathers had been fishermen before them and they were frightened ! They had never experienced anything like this before . And we find that life is not all plain sailing . Life is not just sailing through on a mill pond with sort of red sails in the sunset and that idyllic picture , life is not like that . But life has its storms , it has its tempests , and some of them are a lot fiercer than others .
Idiom: fall from grace (used idiomatically: yes)
The continued process is often accentuated by disappointment in the other because of an earlier idealization . At the age when such a split is formed , such is the yearning for the food , comfort , holding and love which are withheld that the good becomes idealized . With the smallest fall from grace , it is quickly turned into badness . In adult years , help from the partner never feels quite sufficient and , therefore , can not be appreciated . All that is required must be offered and , if it is not all , it is felt to be useless .
Idiom: out of sight (used idiomatically: yes)
Dot did n't like watching that two - fingered hand as it grasped the knife to cut the dumplings . Mr Brown did not like to show it either . At High Tea , Dot was glad when he saw her staring and tidied the strange hand out of sight beneath the table . Using only his whole hand , he had to dissect his dumpling with the edge of the fork . Cutting steel to make aeroplane bodies was a dangerous job .
Idiom: come to grief (used idiomatically: yes)
September 8 : T–28 Trojan lost was N128PS/146270 ( Adds to November issue ) . September 15 : Antonov An–2 YU – BOZ destroyed on ground at Varazdin Airport during Yugoslav Air Force Orao 57 mm rocket attack . October 4 : Nick and Safaya Hemming 's well - known PA–22–160 Tri - Pacer tailwheel conversion G – JEST came to grief on a strip at Flecknoe , Warwickshire , when it failed to pick up speed during take - off for a flight to Honeydon . The aircraft cartwheeled and was written - off . October 11 : LANSA Curtiss C–46D Commando HK–750 , carrying false registration marks N–500 , entered Guatemalan airspace on a flight from Colombia without authority , believed destined for the USA , and crashed on a farm near Quirigua , Izabal province , 120 miles NE of Guatemala City , while attempting to force - land .
Idiom: run out of steam (used idiomatically: yes)
Some of these workers were provided by growth in the labour force , the rundown of unemployment and a reduction in the numbers of people on family farms ( chapter 11 ) . But these sources were quite inadequate . The boom would have run out of steam very quickly indeed if capitalists had been forced to find extra employees to operate all the new machines . Much more important was the transfer of workers from old machines to new ones . If means of production remain in use for 20 years ( a reasonable figure ) then the scrapping of old ones releases some 5 per cent of the work force to work with new equipment every year .
Idiom: wheels within wheels (used idiomatically: yes)
The Dublin player 's sending off for kicking Donegal midfielder Brian Murray in the National League final was of course deserved , and his six months ban in proportion to his offence . But what happened ? The wheels within wheels began to turn , and efforts were made to have the sentence reduced . Nothing untoward — or new — in that , of course . Yet when Carr realised that everything was not going quite his way , he came out and declared that ‘ the GAA had made an enemy in him.’
Idiom: fall short (used idiomatically: yes)
Jordan dare not move without PLO approval . As Prime Minister Peres ruefully remarked in 1986 ‘ the Palestinians alone can prevent a solution.’ They have consistently refused to co - operate with any venture that has fallen short of the promise of self - determination . By the end of 1987 the furthest that they had gone was to accept ‘ non - PLO’ Palestinians to represent them in a Jordanian - Palestinian delegation , but they drew the line at renouncing violence or recognizing Israel 's right to exist . They claimed the right to liberate themselves by armed struggle and they saw any recognition of Israel 's legitimacy as contingent on Israeli and American recognition of their own right to self - determination .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: no)
No one knew what the alarm signaled when it sounded that afternoon , but , with the exception of those few unlucky enough to have been so engrossed in their work as to not notice it , everyone made it out of the building alive .
Idiom: hit the right note (used idiomatically: yes)
IBM is maintaining a disdain for using NT . If it does n't ship before the contract expires , apparently IBM wo n't have full rights to it . SunSoft 's first attempt at courting major SCO distributors on behalf of Interactive Unix and Solaris - on - Intel apparently hit the right notes : After a session last month with the SCO Distributor Council ( UX No 385 ) , another meeting is being set up to look seriously into establishing a relationship . SunSoft , who only reckons Taligent and Microsoft as competitors , thinks its wherewithal to develop the operating system long - term is persuasive . ICL is this week expected to reveal details of plans to offer its OfficePower office automation package on a range of Unix platforms , including Santa Cruz Operation Inc Open Desktop , Sun Sparcstations and IBM RS/6000s ( UX No 384 ) .
Idiom: around the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ All vaulting ideas of film as an art had to be abandoned,’ remarked George Pearson . ‘ Only as a capable and speedy craftsman could one survive in that feverish and restless environment.’ Pearson made no fewer than eight quota films in one year at Julius Hagen 's Twickenham Studios , where one small stage was occupied around the clock , and pictures that had been scripted in a fortnight were filmed in another two weeks . From this industrious factory , and from others across London , came a never - ending flow of costume melodramas , musicals , detective stories and films in every other sort of genre . The quota legislation is generally depicted as a disastrous blow to the British film industry , dragging down its reputation and perpetuating the sort of mediocrity that previously characterized the output of Stoll and Ideal Studios .
Idiom: from pillar to post (used idiomatically: yes)
time for him Doreen Well that is the trouble I expect you see he 's pushed from pillar to post this kid Like the other one erm and when she has all these people in , he 's up , he 's not in bed