bell-bottomszvonové kalhoty Other retro favourites are flares and bell-bottoms, such as all-in-one Barbarella-style pants suits, skimming the body down into gentle flares. BNCB They called the shots while we were still tiny, and they didn't spring into crushed velvet bell-bottoms in 1966, just because it was a happening thing to do. BNCB MADONNA appears in the new US Vogue magazine in a variety of retro '60s fashions, including neo-Janis Joplin gear, hip-hugger bell-bottoms, and an almost see-through top costing $800. BNCB |
birthday suitroucho Adamovo/Evino The little boy was running around the picnic site in his birthday suit. IC Babies are naked at the time of their birth.CIDI He walked out of the bathroom in his birthday suit - obviously not expecting to find anyone in the flat.CIDI |
blue-collar workersdělníci, manuální pracovníci Blue collar workers in the factories and shipyards were demanding wage increases. CIDI They are hoping the new factory will create many more jobs for blue collars. CIDI Stanley & Iris Once one has got over the novelty of seeing Jane Fonda and Robert de Niro don blue collars to play working-class lost souls, Martin Ritt's adaptation of the novel Union Street (set on Teeside) is fairly absorbing. BNCB |
bobble hatčepice s bambulí (pletená) She's got this cute little duffle coat on and a bobble hat with her hair sticking out the bottom. BNCB They put a temporary dressing on his cut nose and his wife puts a bobble hat on his head. BNCB I was still trying to work out what that meant as she flurried off up to her bobble hat in snow. BNCB |
bobby sockskotníčkové ponožky (dívčí a dětské) A frightening and under-hand piece of work that must be addressed, since a whole new generation of Pop kids are now getting into `;the bobby socks and engine-stripping club; Weltsschmertz} of Grease --; a musical that came out before The Manic Street Preachers were born . BNCB The Fifties meant sand shoes, bobby socks and net skirts for Muriel Knowles on the nights --; and afternoons --; she spent out dancing. BNCB She was wearing cute pink bobby socks together with a beautiful pink skirt. IE |
bow tiemotýlek He was painted by Modigliani and Picarbia in a white shirt and tiny bow tie. BNCB He constantly fiddled with that badge of office, a ready-made, multicoloured, bow tie, as he talked to Jane. BNCB Medallion silk waistcoat and bow tie from Oxford and Swan, perfect for your groom or best man. BNCB |
bowler hatbuřinka A caricature of the city gent was achieved by the combination of crombie, bowler hat and black umbrella, which sometimes had a sharpened ferrule. BNCB He described James as of medium height, aged about thirty, dark, with a moustache, and wearing a scruffy frock coat and bowler hat. BNCB He was talking with a tall, overweight man, dressed in Whitehall pin-stripe and bowler hat. BNCB |
box hathedvábný klobouk With the long beard and the sort of box hat. BNCB She stalked off across the road, her box hat jammed firmly on her head and her mouth set in a mutinous line. BNCB She fanned herself with the box hat. IE |
boxer shortsboxerky, trenýrky He undressed, but could not bother to do so in the proper order, to remove his socks before stepping out of trousers and boxer shorts. BNCb Nat let him in and went to fetch Tony who appeared wearing a pair of boxer shorts and a big smile. BNCB The walkers still have some finger nails left and don't have skid marks in their boxer shorts. BNCB |
boxing glovesboxerské rukavice The view through the small rear mirror is rather limited, as Jill Stanton has mentioned before, and the manual wing mirrors are so stiff that trying to fine-tune them is like trying to thread a needle wearing boxing gloves. BNCB Mine had been a decade earlier when Marcel Marceau removed my hands from behind my back; hands, which at that period didn't resemble hands at all, but strawberry coloured boxing gloves. BNCB There were shoes and coats from Marks and Spencer, the National Sporting Club sent a pair of boxing gloves and an Essex butcher provided beef sausages for all, once a week. BNCB |
bridal gownsvatební šaty Emma Samms (above) even had one leg chopped off to get into her bridal gown BNCB Stiff, but at least there's no bridal gown, going-away dress or morning suit to buy. BNCB For her wedding to Captain Mark Phillips in 1973, she wore a high-necked, princess-line bridal gown in ivory silk by Maureen Baker of the design house Susan Small. BNCB |
buckle downmáknout na čem, opřít se do čeho, pustit se do něčeho He'll have to buckle down (to his work) soon if he wants to pass these exams.CIDI I told her that it was time that she buckled down and began to work harder than before. IC The first afternoon of the course, we did nothing, as the participants all had to buckle down and clean out the premises, including the lavatories and the windows. BNC-B |
burn a hole in sb´s pocketpálit koho v kapse (peníze, chtít rychle utrácet) The money that he made at his part-time job is burning a hole in his pocket and he will probably spend it quickly. IC If money is burning a hole in your pocket, you are very eager to spend it. CIDI Very few working men or women are able to save one dollar out of any week wages, and money kept at home are liable to burn a hole into the pocket. Times 1915 |
burst at the seamspraskat ve švech, být nacpaný k prasknutí The train station was bursting at the seams as everyone was waiting to go away for their holidays. IC When all the family come home the house is bursting at the seams. CIDI The ground will be bursting at the seams and buzzing and we can be encouraged by the fact that have tended to produce our best form against the big sides. BNC-B |
bush shirtbavlněné safari - košile s páskem a čtyřmi kapsami She had dressed her hair with a dark, crocheted net beneath her sun helmet and put on new, snug-fitting breeches and a tailored bush shirt that flattered her slender, shapely figure. BNCB Her bush shirt was sticking to the small of her back and she could feel tiny rivulets of perspiration trickling between her breasts. BNCB She closed her eyes to hide her revulsion as he pressed his open mouth against hers and began fumbling with the buttons of her bush shirt. BNCB |