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cool one´s heels

čekat

The youths were left to cool their heels overnight in a police cell. CIDI

Saturn's brakes are well and truly on today as you are left to cool your heels with nothing special to do and no particular place to go. BNCB

The threat comes from the experienced Pakistani politicians who have been cooling their heels for the last four and a half years. IE

coolie hat

kuželovitý slamák

I am enjoying myself playing with the autopilot, either adjusting the trim with the `;coolie hat'; on top of the cyclic or playing disconnect, move and reset as an alternative. BNCB

A decrepit old man, supported by a young boy in a huge coolie hat, was tapping his way down the alley, patterned robes trailing in the rainwater. BNCB

Large lapel buttons have been selling across the country depicting a white man in front of three other men: an Oriental wearing a coolie hat, a Sikh in a turban and a black man clutching a spear. BNCB

corduroy trousers

manšestrové kalhoty

He wasn't the least bit fashionable, but he certainly had style, the way he shuffled around in sneakers and sweatshirts, hair pointing in all directions, corduroy trousers rumpled and baggy. BNCB

 With his highly polished boots and gaiters, corduroy trousers and tweed jacket, he looked the epitome of authority. BNCB

The stitching of the rent in his corduroy trousers was his own work, the runs in his pullover were his cat's. BNCB

costume jewellery

bižuterie

But they did escape with some cash and costume jewellery which did not have any great value but which was important sentimentally to me. BNCB

Mrs Hatton and her mother were both in black, smart unseasonable black relieved with a great deal of showy costume jewellery. BNCB

But costume jewellery had the distinct advantage of not pretending to be anything other than what it was. BNCB

court shoes

lodičky

Cinderella's Slippers will cover your favourite pair of court shoes in the fabric of your choice for shoes that perfectly match your wedding dress or going away outfit. BNCI

She dressed carefully, green herring-bone tweed suit, pinch-waisted, court shoes, very plain, and a complicated face, the tricky little eyeliner triangles at the lid-corners almost smudged by the swaying train. BNCI

With low-heeled black court shoes, and delicate gold hoop earrings, she felt as confident as she could be, in the circumstances. BNCI

cowboy boots

kovbojské boty

And, dressed in cowboy boots, tight jeans and a black T-shirt, she could easily pass for someone half her age. BNCB

But one sacrifice Antonia could never see herself making was to exchange her jeans and cowboy boots for the frumpy frocks and sensible shoes of a Tory wife. BNCB

Model Nikki is on target for a very strange tan in fringed bikini, cowboy boots, bandana and six-shooter. BNCB

cowboy hat

kovbojský klobouk

A tall man with a droopy moustache, cowboy hat, neckerchief and walking staff, he looked like a scout for the Seventh Cavalry. BNCB

She was dismayed to see these strangers accosting her when she expected to see an old man in a cowboy hat with a black and white photograph face. BNCB

The press photographs show the artist in cowboy hat with a shotgun, surrounded by skulls and horns. BNCB

crew neck

výstřih ke krku

Available in purple and pumpkin, is the crest logo crew neck top, with matching stonewashed short. BNCI

For a soldier he was casually, almost comfortably dressed, a heavy pullover and an old-fashioned thin tie just showing over the crew neck, pressed trousers and polished shoes. BNCI

Men's stripy yarn dyed crew neck shirt finished with a twin-stitched band at the neck and a breast pocket. BNCI

crumpled clothes

zmačkané, nevyžehlené oblečení

Christina went upstairs to her bedroom, peeled off her sticky, crumpled clothes, and jumped into a tepid shower. BNCB

He ran into the room a few minutes later and began to tear off his crumpled clothes. BNCB

In accordance with his instructions it had been left as it was, forlorn, unwashed, the crumpled clothes. BNCB

cut one´s coat according to one´s cloth

kupovat jen to, na co si můžeš dovolit

He talks a lot of tommy rot about not making ends meet, but what I say is you've got to cut your coat according to your cloth. BNCB

The school won't charge you this time, but you must cut your coat according to your cloth. BNCB

She spends money like water, I wish she cut her coat according to her cloth. BNCB

cut-offs

ustřižené džínsy

She put on her sunglasses to decrease her visibility, but she could still see something of herself; brown knees, frayed cut-offs. BNCB

Cut-offs for clinical variables were taken from the predictive models of Farr et al. BNCB

 MEL SMITH looked a treat --; matted unwashed hair, dirty denim cut-offs revealing pale chubby legs. BNCB