nepohnúť ani prstom

1. But Mum didn't lift a finger to help and gave as good as she got. BNC

2. If he weren't my son-in-law I wouldn't lift a finger to help him. BNC

3.  But once the women returned, the men weren't prepared to lift a finger to help. BNC

rozbehnúť sa (o práci)

1. After a few days out of the office it always takes me a while to get into gear when I come back. CIDoI

2. If the project does not get into gear now and if we go back to the drawing board, it will be decades before we get another scheme that is worked through to the present level. BNC

3. Disorganised French industry was slow to get into gear, and when it did it committed the traditional error, not emulated by the Germans, of having too many models. BNC

pokaziť zábavu

1. She guarded her secret carefully, terrified she was going to suffer from morning sickness, which might give the game away to her mother, but she'd been lucky. BNC

2. Unfortunately, Godwin's illustrative examples give the game away. BNC

3. We were trying to pretend we didn´t know it was her birthday but Sam gave the game away. CIDoI

nová krv, noví zamestnanci

1. It´s time we injected some new blood into this organization. CIDoI

2. Both Mr Segni, who is 50, and Mr Orlando, who is 43, reproach their party for its inability to bring in new blood and fresh ideas. BNC

3. These more remote areas were "dying"  agriculturally as they could neither keep the present generation nor attract "new blood." BNC 

mať navrch, mať veci pod kontrolou

1. At half time, the Italian team seem to have the upper hand. CIDoI

2. This debate, as well as a straw poll taken in the morning, confirmed that the reformers, though short of an absolute majority, now have the upper hand. BNC

3. We must destroy them now, while we yet have the upper hand. BNC

dostať padáka

1. My bet is that Liverpool won't win anything this year and Souness will get the sack. BNC

2. The rumour was that Peace was told he would get the sack, if he dared to criticize Andrew's conduct again. BNC

3.  I'm just a counterman, and if my boss knew my wife worked I should get the sack, because people would think he didn't pay me enough'. BNC

kradnúť v zamestnaní

1. Record numbers are being caught with fingers in the till; like ex-Mirror chief Robert Maxwell. BNC

2. He was not the clear favourite for the Oval Office, for there were other men whose achievements were more palpable than George Crowninshield's, but he looked good, sounded better and no journalist had ever discovered him with his fingers in the till or his legs in the wrong bed. BNC

3. He had his fingers in the till, that´s why he lost his job. CIDoI

vysoké odstupné (pri prepustení)

1. Usually , you will be more concerned with compensation for loss of office colloquially known as a golden handshake. WASPS

2. The Santa Cruz Operation Inc is now catching flak for paying co-founder Larry Michels a $354,000 golden handshake after he was forced to leave the company in December because of sexual harassment charges. WASPS

3. We were not terribly surprised when he was informed that he would only receive the basic amount, since he had been lucky enough to get a golden handshake. BNC

práca po známosti

1. Councillor John Murphy told The Scotsman last week that he had proof to back up jobs for the boys, claims in Monklands. BNC

2. It smacks of jobs for the boys. BNC

3. A Monklands regional Labour councillor said yesterday that he has proof to back up allegations of jobs for the boys; in Monklands District Council. BNC

zabíjať čas

1. I've done nothing but read thrillers since the exams, apart from watching videos and playing patience to kill time. BNC

2. When you had nothing to do but kill time, it dragged incredibly slowly. BNC

3. The meeting was arranged for ten o'clock; in their anxiety, they arrived twenty minutes early, and Ernest suggested that for politeness' sake they should walk up White Horse Lane and back, to kill time. BNC

mať pred sebou ťažkú prácu

1. We´re training a completely new team, so we´ve got our work cut out for us. CIDoI

2. Have you seen the state of the garden? She´ll have her work cut out to get it looking nice in time for the summer. CIDoI

3. T.V. hairdresser Andrew Collinge had his work cut out for him on 23rd January. BNC

poslúžiť, splniť účel

1. The two scientists demonstrated that some RNA molecules could do the job directly. BNC

2. These whole-house systems are comparatively expensive to install, but will do the job when all else has failed. BNC

3. Hand-washing practices, she goes on, are often based on tradition and ritual, but adequate facilities should be available to do the job effectively. BNC

ťažká a zdĺhavá práca

1. Cheap and accessible computer packages have unburdened the splitters of much donkey work; the computer can take over the job of interpretation too. BNC

2. Not being paid wasn't a problem; what was however was that I was being used for the donkey work without any consultation on the artistic side of it. BNC

3.  Some analysts express concern that the new systems will be less secure and incapable of doing donkey work like batch processing. BNC

ťažko pracovať, drieť 

1. She'd had to work like a Trojan to achieve it, but it had been worth every drop of blood, sweat and tears. BNC

2. I ´ll make you work like a dog. BNC

3. He worked like a dog all day to finish the wallpapering. CIDoI

pospať si

1. If he got his head down for a couple of hours he would be nice and fresh for the evening. BNC

2. I`m just going to put my head down for an hour - I feel so tired. CIDoI

3. I'm a bit tired, to be honest; I'm going to get my head down for a while. BNC