být podělaný strachy, nadělat si do kalhot

During the thiller I was quaking in my boots. Lingua

My first teacher had one of those deep, booming voices that had you quaking in your boots. CIDI

Just the sound of her voice made me quake in my boots. CIDI

otrhané džíny, oblečení

The children were wearing dirty ragged clothes. CIDI

His head rose above the floor level of the hay-loft in time to see a great deal more of Melody than he had anticipated as she slipped her ragged clothes back on. BNCB

Tall and skinny in his ragged clothes, his skin tanned a deep brown by the sun, stealing from tree to tree in his bare feet. BNCB

staré hadry

Her hands are claws she keeps concealed within her rags and tatters. BNCB

She propped Scathach against the ledge of the wide window, then made a nest in the middle of the room, furs, clothing, rags and tatters of standards. BNCB

She came out of the marshes, and she was grey all over grey hair, grey face, grey rags and tatters and all mired and spattered, besides, from the marsh mud. BNCB

papouškovat, tupě opakovat

A parrot is a bird that can repeat words and noises it has just heard.CIDI

When I went to Sunday school, we had to recite passages from the Bible parrot-fashion.CIDI

Dealers would repeat this parrot fashion in the same optimistic note that the director had used on them. BNC-B

připravit se trvrdou práci, pustit se do čeho

Our local team need to roll their sleeves up and put a bit more effort into their football. CIDI

Let`s roll up our sleeves and begin to work so that we can finish early. IC

I think they'll have to recognize that it's gonna be roll your sleeves up and we're go we aren't gonna be able to do all of the things we wanted to do, and that's the price we're gonna have to pay.  BNC-B

růžový, příliš optimistický

At least we are much nearer than we were in the era your rose-coloured glasses have alighted upon. BNCB

His third requirement is top-notch chief financial officer who won't see the world through the rose-coloured glasses of an ex-salesman. BNCB

An article in the January Railway World is well worth reading and the editor who interviewed Mr Tony Hills saw the Vale of Rheidol through rose-coloured glasses. BNCB

ke krku

The sweater is a simple, round neck style that looks good with either skirts or trousers. BNCB

 If you're knitting a round neck and have stitches held on waste yarn, you should make a note of the number of stitches on waste as you knit them off. BNCB

With its pretty round neck, softly padded shoulders and front-pocket detail, it looks great worn with a skirt or trousers. BNCB

kraťasy na běhání

She had a sports bag to put all her things in: her swimming gear, her running shorts and her riding things. BNCB

 Prague was the last stadium where I wore conventional running shorts. BNCB

She was in her warmup kit of white tank top, running shorts, red legwarmers, and basketball shoes. BNCB

holínky

They reckoned that my extra weight had protected my heart, and I was also wearing heavy, rubber-soled safety boots. BNCB

All men on site will be required to wear hard hats and safety boots at all times within the designated areas. BNCB

While some made their way to the more traditional setting of the cafe by choice, two of them in denim overalls and safety boots set about the polishing, cleaning and oiling of duty loco, Maid Marian. BNCB

ochranná přilba

The safety helmet was another of his discoveries, his good ideas. BNCB

He thrust into her hands a blue plastic safety helmet with a transparent visor. BNCB

At the first change over it's off with the shoes and on with the safety helmet. BNCB

slamák, matróz

Margaret examined the pale-blue Breton sailor hat with the enormous upturned brim that by sheer luck exactly toned with my dress and jacket. BNCB

Or the children from primary school on an outing, dressed in sailor suits like Victorian children on their way to the seaside, snaking behind their teacher in twos, each round head and pair of button eyes topped by an identical pudding basin of black hair and blue sailor hat. BNCB

A hoary quarryman wearing the traditional hard hat and `;moleskin'; trousers, and a salty fisherman with sailor hat and jersey exchange gossip on the STONE QUAY built on the site of an earlier one by Morton Pitt as a promenade for the new hotel and a point of embarkation. BNCB

obnošené, použité oblečení

The competition set a fairly tight budget so Julia decided to mix second-hand clothes with new ones. BNCB

Hence my association with Flip, because they've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years. BNCB

These old shops are still in business today, selling second-hand clothes and materials. BNCB

šicí stroj

I left Aisha's prison in the following way: one day a woman from the same village as Aisha and I came to pick up her sewing machine. BNCB

On Sunday at 11pm, Mrs Biky's basement cavern was still humming with the sound of her sewing machine as she turned out ladies' dresses and blouses. BNCB

I do another cardigan in this way I shall do two or even three lines on the sewing machine. BNCB

svůdné, dráždivé spodní prádlo

Sexy underwear's got nothing on thermal britches and vests when it comes to keeping you cosy in the depths of winter. BNCB

Now the cartoon Princess stops at the point where she is clad in sexy underwear, instead of stripping down further to the G-string. BNCB

THE ROMANTIC: They may please Barbara Cartland, but the true romantic scorns heart shaped chocolates, Chanel No. 5, sexy underwear and other fashionable cliches of romance. BNCB

být celý rozklepaný, roztřesený

I was shaking in my shoes before the start. Lingua

Whenever I am waiting for the results of my exams, I always shake in my boots. IC

Why are you shaking your boots? Are you cold? Lingua