pondělí, 1. července 2024, 15.24
Stránky: OpenMoodle
Kurz: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Slovník: WORK & LEISURE

a head honcho

najdoležitejší človek

1. Pehr Gyllenhammar, the Volvo group's head honcho, is a rare show visitor. BNC

2. Hot Press editor Niall Stokes and Dave Pennefeather, head honcho of MCA and Mother Records, pictured at the launch of the Levis Opportunity Rocks in Charlies last week. BNC

3. You`ll have to ask Alan, he`s the head honcho in our department. CIDoI

be hard up

byť na mizine

1. As a result they may always be hard up without needing to be. BNC

2. Our Joe can't be hard up he does a job and it brings him thirty grand in. BNC

3. We`re a bit hard up at the moment so I can`t really afford a new coat. CIDoI

a hatchet job

nespravodlivá kritika

1. Now, six months after an American biographer, Donald Spoto, did a hatchet job on Olivier, accusing him of having a homosexual affair with Danny Kaye, the key is to be removed from its resting place. BNC

2. Richie was afraid I was going to do a hatchet job on him. BNC

3. Lexington's hatchet job on Thomas Jefferson (April 17th) caused me to chuckle. BNC

get the hang of

naučiť sa niečo robiť

1. Pushing the wheelbarrow should have been child's play, but I still could not get the hang of it. BNC

2. She began to feel that if she did this a few more times she would get the hang of it. BNC

3. He scribbled a few lines on a scrap sheet to get the hang of Sampson's cramped style, and then he started to fill in the form. BNC

have one` hands full

mať plné ruky práce

1. Right now I have my hands full. BNC

2. The urbane Ms d'Harnoncourt, a Duchamp specialist, has her hands full leading an ambitious reorganisation of the Philadelphia Museum's European collections, scheduled for completion in 1995. BNC

3. The parents and teachers of many of these youngsters have their hands full enough just looking after them. BNC

all hands to the pumps

každá pomoc dobrá

1. The party is for the day after tomorrow, that's why it's all hands to the pumps. BNC

2. If it hadn't been for the war, they'd have retired him, but it was like everything else these days, all hands to the pumps. BNC

3. It was all hands to the pumps to achieve it. Google

all hands on deck

každá pomoc je vítaná, dobrá

1. It was all hands on deck as they worked flat out over a weekend in March. BNC

2. It'll be all hands on deck from now on,'; Moran told the girls as they sat over a late breakfast. BNC

3. Now, with half an hour's grace to freshen up, it's all hands on deck at the hotel, in Mephistco's corporate hospitality suite. BNC

live from hand to mouth

žiť z ruky do úst

1. He lived from hand to mouth making instant resolves every time he opened his mail. BNC

2. Ministerially the king lived from hand to mouth, on occasions with a double ministry of foreign affairs. BNC

3. Financial support is perhaps the most accessible to documentation, although even this is not always clear, especially for the great majority of the population who did not codify their financial support for kin through wills and settlements, simply because they lived from hand to mouth. BNC

give somebody a hand

podať pomocnú ruku

1. Why don't you give me a hand with the rest of the work? BNC

2. When I've found out when she can come and give me a hand, I'll give you a ring. BNC

3. There's some people standing round watching me, but they don't give me a hand. BNC

ham-fisted

nešika

1. Ham-fisted thieves had tried to steal a Metro GTi from my driveway. BNC

2. The large defence cuts that Labour proposes would be ruinous to job prospects, and its ham-fisted intervention plans would not work. BNC

3. I looked for the bolt of the gun desperately, ham-fisted with the unfamiliar weapon. BNC

let one`s hair down

uvoľniť sa

1. It's only when you let your hair down that others can see the real person hiding under the hat. BNC

2. You feel you've earned that glass of wine, and the chance to let your hair down with friends, husband, lover or family over a good meal. BNC

3. It`s nice to let your hair down once in a while and go a bit wild. CIDoI

half-dead

na smrť unavený

1. But I'm exhausted now, half-dead and looking back, see that Stewpid is gaining on me, has halved the distance between us… my breath comes in jags, my chest is going to explode. BNC

2. After nine months of doing the early morning show and the Breakfast Show with Simon Mayo, I was half-dead. BNC

3. We`ve been walking all day and I`m half-dead. CIDoI

bust a gut

veľmi sa snažiť

1.  I don't know if you know what it is to work every day as if your life depended on it, to work until you feel you are going to bust a gut, until you want to cry or howl at yourself because your own body is so stubborn. BNC

2. We did bust a gut on the report and we naively hoped it would be decided upon sooner. BNC

3. I really bust a gut to get that report finished on time. CIDoI

grunt work

ťažká, nudná práca

1. The South Koreans offer cheaper materials and are willing to do more of the grunt work than Americans or Europeans are. BNC

2. It's our goal to keep the focus on the good stuff, and automate the grunt work. WebC

3. Her job was nothing glamorous - a lot of grunt work drafting agreements for others to sign. CIDoI

hit the ground running

hneď sa pustiť do práce

1. In short, after promising to hit the ground running, people wonder why the President has become the leader of the Slow Is Beautiful Movement. BNC

2. Their purpose is to allow any new administration to hit the ground running, as one senior source put it. BNC

3. If elected, they promise to hit the ground running in their first weeks of office. CIDoI