handle/treat sb with kid glovesjednat s kým v rukavičkách You must handle the new computer with kid gloves as it is very fragile. IC Kid gloves are gloves made from very soft leather which would feel very soft if someone touched you with them. CIDI Linda can be a very difficult woman - you've really got to handle her with kid gloves.CIDI |
hard hatochranná přilba He took off his hard hat and wiped his brow, after checking for scaffolding. BNCB Next to the notice was a fat man in blue dungarees and a white hard hat. BNCB A hard hat can protect you from having a metal spike go through your skull and into your brain. BNCB |
hard/hot on the heels of stbezprostředně následovat A film contract came hard on the heels of the success of their first album. CIDI Her succes came hot on the heels of the book edition. Wasp What should come hot on the heels of being rude? IE |
hat shopkloboučnictví Would she be like the Misses Cardings, the three spinster ladies who kept the hat shop beyond the tobacconist's? BNCB The next minute she was running out of the yard and into the street again and into the shelter of the doorway leading into the hat shop. BNCB They turned away and she walked up the street, past the baker's, past the shoemaker's, and the hat shop, and she rang the bell that was attached to the wall at the side of the door leading into the sweet shop. BNCB |
have a bee in one´s bonnetmít brouka v hlavě, být posedlý myšlenkou She has a bee in her bonnet about going to the USA. Lingua She has a bee in her bonnet about going to live on an island and starting a herb farm. IC She's got a real bee in her bonnet about people keeping their dogs under control.CIDI |
have an ace/card up one´s sleevemít eso v rukávu I still had a card up my sleeve in the form of a letter from his father. CIDI The new game show has an ace up its sleeve. It will allow viewers to play from home and win prizes. CIDI She surprised all of us, we didn´t know that she has had an ace in her sleeve. EI |
have ants in one´s pantsbýt neposeda, chvíli neposedět, mít roupy You are moving around as if you have ants in your pants the teacher said to the little boy. IC She's got ants in her pants because she's going to a party tonight. CIDI He has ants in his pants as he is going to the concert tonight. Lingua |
have nothing to wearnemít co na sebe Every girl thinks that she has nothing to wear although the wardrobe is full of clothes. Lingea But now Miss Kyte must leave you, or she will have nothing to wear for the occasion. BNCB Kate is doing shoppig all the time and all the time she claims she has nothing to wear. BNCB |
have st under one´s beltmít úspěšně za sebou, mít na svém kontě Now that you have experience working for an international company under your belt you will have more chances to apply for a better job. IC She was a capable individual, with fourteen years as managing director under her belt. CIDI He has several major drama awards under his belt. CIDI |
have st up one´s sleevemít schované v rukávu (pro příhodnou dobu) If this trip doesn't work out I've still got a few ideas up my sleeve. CIDI He didn´t lose his head, he had another anwer up his sleeve. Lingua They had many excuses for their absence up their sleeve that I couldn´t say anything. IE |
heart is in one´s bootsbýt celý nervózní a zkroušený My heart was in my boots as I waited for the results. Lingua His heart was in his boots as he waited for news of the accident. CIDI Why was your heart in your boots? What happened? WASPS |
high fashiontop móda (tvořená špičkovými světovými salóny) We grew up in a world of chainstore high fashion, middle-of-the-road revolution, cover-version original pop music. BNCB It manufactures high quality men's leather Goodyear welted and high fashion Dr Martens footwear under licence. BNCB Those ladies slim and brave enough to wear the high fashion were ethereal in gauzy dresses that clung to their bodies as they moved. BNCB |
high-heeled shoesboty na vysokém podpadku It was not only her matching handbag and high-heeled shoes which fired my enthusiasm. BNCB She had pulled down her veil as she sat down, hitched up her skirt to show pretty feet in high-heeled shoes, and lit a cigarette. BNCB She was wearing a loosely belted grey dress and black high-heeled shoes with very little jewellery or adornment save a jet pendant at her throat. BNCB |
hiking bootsturistické boty The first pair of real hiking boots I ever had were Daisy Roots and I've always been impressed by their comfort. BNCB It had only taken a matter of yards for her to acknowledge that her sandals made abysmal hiking boots. BNCB In the kitchen, open shelves are lined with French country pottery and baskets of fruit; in the mud room, row upon row of wellies and hiking boots. BNCB |
hobble skirtdlouhá úzká sukně The demure Lily in her straw hat, a hat I could describe to you now, still, as well as if I had it here in front of me, the crown swathed in a pale tulle the colour of a summer haze… in a long-sleeved, high-necked, pink-and-white striped blouse… a dark-blue hobble skirt, beside whom I walked across Regent's Park in the spring of 1914. BNCB The hobble skirt trammelled her steps, yet charmingly; she swayed a little, seemed to both hesitate and float as she came towards us. BNCB I couln´t walk properly in my hobble skirt. IE |