make sb's blood boilpřivést čí krev do varu Seeing him beating that little dog made my blood boil. (Oxford Idioms) |
meat and potatoesgrunt, to nejdůležitější, to hlavní, základ Satanic and necrophiliac obsessions, the meat and potatoes of death-metal, don't so much take a back seat as miss the bus altogether thankfully. BNC |
meat of a nutjádro As all the meat of a nut is packed into the shell, so the whole pith of the Swami's lecture against us is compressed into the handbill above mentioned. WebCorp An old method of hiding scratches is to rub the meat of a nut, like a pecan or walnut, over the scratch. WebCorp To look to such earthly ordinances now in view of Christ's historic appearance and work is to look for the meat of a nut in an empty shell. WebCorp |
meltrozpustit |
melted butterrozpuštěné máslo Drape four or five squares of filo, each in a slightly different position, over each ramekin, brushing layers with melted butter. BNC Layer two sheets of filo, brushing each with melted butter. BNC Brush with more melted butter and sprinkle with sesame seeds. BNC |
milk floatmlékárenský vůz At the gatehouse the milk float arrives with the daily delivery and Tim Tyier, the milkman who has served the Centre for many years, starts his rounds. BNC Yesterday, French farmers were joined by others from Spain, Belgium and Germany marching through Strasbourg behind a milk float loaded with vegetables, milk and wine to a football stadium rally. BNC The aggressive promotion of milk sales by the supermarket giants such as Sainsbury, Tesco, Asda and Safeway, has already rocked the milk float, traditionally the most profitable side of the business for both farmers and dairy groups. BNC |
milk for babespohádky pro děti, primitivní literatura |
milk in the coconutzarážející fakt, vysvětlení zarážejícího faktu |
milk of human kindnessvrozená lidská dobrota There's not much of the milk of the human kindness in him. I've never known such a hard man. (Oxford Idioms) |
milk teethmléčné zuby In contrast, we evolved a system with a single tooth replacement, of milk teeth by adult teeth. BNC Needham examined the IQ of children and the quantity of lead found in their (shed) milk teeth. BNC Peter Harvey and colleagues at the University of Birmingham analysed blood lead from pre-school children in Birmingham, and Marjorie Smith of the Institute of Child Health studied lead levels in milk teeth shed by London children. BNC |
milk the audiencehrát na aplaus, přehrávat |
milk the ram/the bull/the pigeonmámit tele z jalové krávy Gazing down from his plinth in Lichfield, you could almost hear Dr Johnson muttering: "Socialism, Sir, is a cow, which will yield such people no more milk--and so they are gone to milk the bull". BNC |
milk-bloodedzbabělý |
milk-churnkonev na mléko She was succeeded as US champion by Liselotte Neumann, the Swede from a club in Finspang where people put their green fee into a milk churn and just go out and play. BNC She had shuffled forward several places when two soldiers entered carrying a metal milk churn. BNC So if you cannot decide what the icon that looks like a milk churn with an overgrown mushroom beside it means you can select it and discover that it means Paste Clipboard contents--oh perhaps it is supposed to be a drawing pin besides a board but you could have fooled me! BNC |
milk/suck sb/sth dryněkoho úplně vysát It was only later that we found out he'd milked his grandmother dry of all her money before she died. (Oxford Idioms) |