neperspektívne zamestnanie

1. But men who'd probably been men since the age of 14, when they decided that school was a wank and that, rather than hanging around waiting for a dead-end job, they'd go out and find their own way to make a living. BNC

2. I wasn't a particularly happy person at the time; lonely, in a rather dead-end job and with few personal relationships. BNC

3. Are you one of those in a completely dead-end job? BNC

postupovať v práci

1. Success was measured in terms of climbing the career ladder. BNC

2. Women's chances to climb the career ladder have been hard fought for. BNC

3. To climb the career ladder, a childcare worker must meet requirements in three
areas: 1) training curriculum, 2) performance, and 3) length of experience. Google

zapojiť sa do rozbehnutej aktivity, práce

1. They may choose to jump on the bandwagon and agree with the decision that will be made anyway or they may choose to cosset disagreements. BNC

2. It's only natural with the global mania sweeping the industry that trade associations
would jump on the bandwagon to assist their members with expansion plans. Google

3. Acer is the latest PC company to jump on the bandwagon signing up handwriting recognition software expert CIC to develop pen based applications to be run on Acer hardware. BNC

"schytať to," "odniesť si to"

1. If anyone makes a mistake, it's the senior person who has to carry the can. BNC

2. As cricket chairman, I was left to carry the can for a move that made no sense and was none of my doing. BNC

3. It wasn't their fault, usually, that the firm was doing badly, but they had to carry the can. BNC

riadiť niečo

1. It turned out that these were the guys who run the show, the kingpins of British ufology. BNC

2. Mrs June Goodier, one of the organisers, said they were delighted with the response for help to run the show. BNC

3. You'd be given free rein to run the show how you wanted it. BNC

nudiť sa na smrť

1. Oh I was bored to tears and I was eating whole time. BNC

2. Dana had embraced the dancing and singing lessons with fervour, but Claudia, trailing behind her sister, had been bored to tears by them, and after a time her father had put an end to what he'd seen as a waste of his money and Claudia's time. BNC

3. John was found a post as a shipping clerk in the Lace Market, but was soon bored to tears with this work. BNC 

nemať nič na práci, nemať čo robiť

1. The reason we drink is we're at a loose end. BNC

2. From the novelist's journalism and notebooks and letters we glean the almost comically unresonant information that being at a loose end leads men to drunkenness and murder. BNC

3. She was between jobs, at a loose end, Camb had gathered, otherwise nothing would have induced her to accompany her parents. BNC

uzavrieť dohodu

1. As Oliver Wright has remarked, "to be the president of a trade union is to gain an apprenticeship in negotiating, to develop an instinct for when to hang tough and when to cut a deal." BNC

2. Richard Armstrong has left to become Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, and Richard Marshall has cut a deal that allows him to remain only until he finds another job. BNC

3. Unix distributor, Irvine, California-based UniDirect Inc, has reportedly cut a deal that will have Dell Computer Corp passing on all calls for application software certified on its machines to UniDirect as leads or orders. BNC

zamestnanec, ktorý nadriadenému na všetko prikyvuje

1. A yes man always says what you want to hear. Google

2. He denies that he`s simply a yes man, and insists he`ll be making major changes to the way the club is run. CIDoI

3. There's a kind of yes man, that's the way the carpet industry works in general. BNC

mladí zamestnanci

1. These companies are suffering from a lack of young blood. CIDoI

2. Young blood, young minds, new ideas. BNC

3. We also wanted to implement a plan and this is an ongoing situation of admitting young blood to the partnership over a period of  five years. BNC

človek, ktorý veľa pracuje, začne byť nudný

1. You need to get out more in the evenings. You know what they say about all work and no play...CIDoI

2.  Life was not all work and no play for women any more than for men; even if they had chores to do at home, the women compositors; who almost by definition young and/or unmarried; had the chance to escape duty for pleasure from time to time. BNC

3. Try to make time to put your feet up and switch off but don't be grouchy if you find it's all work and no play! BNC

kancelárske zamestnanie

1. The earnings of women in white-collar jobs are the second highest in Britain. CIDoI

2. Professionals and white-collar employees nowadays increasingly find their status and conditions under attack. BNC

3. He argues that over the last century or so the number of white-collar jobs has increased rapidly, but at the same time the skill required to do the jobs has been reduced. BNC

vyznať sa v niečom

1. I'm not very well up on dinosaurs. BNC

2. Not only are they one of the best campaigning organisations around, keeping the welfare of British birds well up on the conservation agenda, their quarterly magazine is full of interesting information on different species as well as tips on the best places to go. BNC

3. I`m not very well up on Ancient Greek history. CIDoI

spoločenská vrstva

1. So it's about culture, training, opportunities and to make sure that people from whatever walk of life, and whatever gender or race or ability to have, or disability, do not under achieve.BNC

2. The first principle of success in any walk of life is to know when to cut your losses.BNC

3. Volunteers who work at the animal hospital come from all walks of life. CIDoI

skrachovať

1. Drivers left the trade, garages went to the wall. BNC

2. Those who could stand the pace flourished; those who could not went to the wall. BNC

3. In the first six months of this year nearly 30,000 small firms went to the wall; a third up on 1991. BNC