byť prinútený riešiť problém (aj za iných)

1. Seymour Cray has been left holding the baby at his struggling Colorado Springs-based Cray Computer Corp: Neil Davenport has resigned as president and chief executive, saying that Cray Computer had reached the point where it has appropriate resources to complete the Cray-3 so he is free to seek other opportunities --; but the company is still seeking its first firm customer for the supercomputer. BNC

2. Shearson was left holding the baby when the music stopped after the buyout: J H Whitney Co, leading the buyout, had persuaded Shearson to put up a bridging loan, and that it would easily be able to sell much of it on; in the event, the junk bond market collapsed and no-one wanted it. BNC

3. He abandoned the project after a year because he felt that it was going to fail and I was holding the baby. CIDoI

vedúca osobnosť

1. He was a leading light in the Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association and expanded his business by acquiring and developing a chain of cinemas, which he named Vogue, in places like Govan, Rutherglen and Shettleston. BNC

2. He had graduated through minor journalism to publishing, and was now (I learned by well-placed casual questions) a leading light in a go-ahead new publishing house specializing in novels by Angry Young Men. BNC

3. This can be seen, for example, by the fact that Graham Wallas, a prominent Fabian, and L. T. Hobhouse, a leading light in New Liberalism, occupied the first chairs of Political Science and Sociology respectively. BNC

zaspa+t na vavrínoch

1. A good start, boys, but don't rest on your laurels. BNC

2. You can never rest on your laurels. BNC

3. Just because you passed all your exams, that`s no reason to rest on your laurels. BNC

spať

1. But if you quite like sleeping with the offending partner for other reasons, you'll need earplugs, a light where it disturbs nobody and a good book till the warm drink you've made for consolation lulls you back to the Land of Nod . BNC

2. Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod, so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City. BNC

3. Joe`s in the land of nod at last. CIDoI

v blahobyte, v prepychu

1. It was exciting to travel by private plane and helicopter with courtiers standing to attention, to be driven in a limousine the size of a small house, and to stay in palaces and castles in the lap of luxury. BNC

2. Mr Skinner insisted: `;There will always be a need for socialism, whether in Britain or anywhere else, so long as there are millionaires living in the lap of luxury and other people living in cardboard boxes. BNC

3. They live in the lap of luxury in a huge great house in the south of France. CIDoI

pán vševediaci

1. The Know-all doesn't, at heart, see the need for any discussion at all. BNC

2. They know that you are not trying to portray yourself as a know-all, that you have accepted being only human.BNC

3. You're a bumptious little know-all at times, aren't you? BNC

na najvyššom poste, na vrchole

1. Socially, he was at the top of the ladder and he lived to the limits of his wealth. BNC

2. We had Desmond Child producing at the time when Bon Jovi were at the top of the ladder. BNC

3. He`s at the top of the ladder after a long and successful career. CIDoI

práca vykonávaná s láskou

1. It's a labour of love looking after Dinmore. BNC

2. Compiling such a list was a labour of love, too pleasurable an activity to pursue in office hours. BNC

3. The book is very personal, not at all a dry textbook, and even gives the impression of being a labour of love. BNC

byť niečim zavalený

1. I`m knee-deep in work at the moment, so I`m not stopping for lunch. CIDoI

2. One sign: when Seattle started to charge citizens by the bagful, charity shops found their doorsteps knee-deep in unwanted gifts. BNC

3. But when I got home and found my answerphone knee-deep in angry messages I didn't really have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out that you had something to do with it. BNC

zarobiť veľa peňazí

1. But an on-the-ball whisky shop could make a killing with its special EC-label malt Scotch at £27.70 a bottle. BNC

2. We've been worried for years about their tendency to see Britain as a soft market in which to make a killing. BNC

3. Once it has been led farther and farther away from the nest by the parent bird, it will have difficulty in rediscovering the position of the nest and will, in all probability, set off to search elsewhere if it fails to make a killing. BNC

pre vzrušenie z nebezpečenstva

1. The great spread of drug-taking among the young during this time can also be seen either as doing it for kicks, or looking for a road out of materialistic culture. BNC

2. Court told of hacker who caused chaos for kicks. BNC

3. I believe the professional thieves are more ethical at least they're stealing for a practical reason, not just for kicks. BNC

mať niečo rád, užívať si to

1. My previous experiences had made me wonder if white policemen didn't get a kick out of black policemen investigating black citizens. BNC

2. I still get a kick out of listening to records that don't have an ingrained time period, records by people like The Cravats or Metal Urban or early Cabaret Voltaire. BNC

3. That's about as stupid as saying you became a nurse because you get a kick out of emptying bedpans. BNC

flákať sa

1. He was being paid to work, wasn't he, not to lie down on the job? BNC

2. The new Police Chief fired two officers he accused of lying down on the job. CIDoI

3. How many employers exhort their workers with "Let’s not lay down on the job"? Google

neuspieť

1. Mr Patten promises that the Government will allow  the public to take local authorities to court if they fall down on the job of keeping the streets clean. BNC

2. As every woman knows, her hair is her crowning glory, or rather she knows that it should be, but there are those of us who are unhappily aware that, too often, our looks fall down on the job. BNC

3. The armed forces will take over if the local authorities fall down on the job. CIDoI

sada (niečoho, čo sa predáva spolu)

1. But Louisa remained forgotten until the discovery of that suitcase, perhaps sold at the original auction as part of a job lot. BNC

2. I've still got 300 sets left over from that job lot I got the other Christmas. BNC

3.  Even kitchen utensils are being sold along with a job lot of washing machines, dryers and ironing machines for £200. BNC