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 |
business suittmavší vycházkový oblek But Hank protested firmly that he wanted a dark business suit, three white drip-dry shirts, dark socks and tie, black shoes, a light overcoat and an appropriate hat. BNCB A few seconds later a smug, exhausted man in an impeccable business suit went staggering past. BNCB Rex took a deep breath, sprang out from hiding and drew down upon the boy in the business suit. BNCB |
button-downna knoflíky It was so dark a blue as to be almost black, with button-down cuffs and epaulettes and a broad welt that fastened around his hips with a buckle. BNCB A chalk grey suit, a new starched white shirt, a tie with diagonal stripes, the shirt with a button-down collar. BNCB Crew necks were worn with button-down collars kept inside the neck. BNCB |
button-down collarlímeček s knoflíčky ve špičkách A chalk grey suit, a new starched white shirt, a tie with diagonal stripes, the shirt with a button-down collar. BNCB He was dressed in plus fours, tweed waistcoat (the jacket, and his waxed Barbour were hanging behind the door of the bothy), thick socks, brogues, and a fawn country shirt with a button-down collar. BNCB Talbot looked at Dr Wickram who, in startling contrast to Benson, was thin, dark and immaculately dressed in a blue suit, white button-down collar and a black tie, the funereal hue of which went rather well with the habitual severity of his expression, and said: `;Does your interest in nuclear physics extend to nuclear weaponry, Dr Wickram?'; BNCB |