niekto dôležitý, kto stojí v pozadí

1. Reg was already a well respected backroom boy and came to the club from highflying Walborough Solid Fuel Albion. BNC

2. In chapter 5 below, David Howell, his leading backroom boy, describes the work of the Public Sector Research Unit, how it scoured North America for business methods adaptable to Whitehall's needs and searched for think-tanks to visit. BNC

3. Poor eyesight had prevented Thomas from qualifying as a pilot; but he was not content to be a backroom boy. BNC

smiech od srdca

1. A deep belly laugh is good exercise! WASPS

2. Fun - the smile , the chuckle and the hearty belly laugh are recognized as valid teaching aids. WASPS

3. Comedians Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith went for huge belly laughs as they poked fun at - a small group of people for whom this has been a terrible year - the British tabloid journalists. WASPS

"pán dôležitý"

1. He's quite old now, of course, but Sir David Wyndham used to be a really big cheese in the business world… definitely a grand fromage ! BNC

2. And they thought they were the big cheese you see,  those who worked there . BNC

3. Apparently her father is a big cheese in one of the major banks. CIDoI

"veľká ryba", dôležitá osoba

1. Clive Swift, in his admirable and essential book The Job of Acting says that when you were at drama school, you were a big fish, now you're a tiddler. BNC

2. I know you see which side my fence is buttered, and if I can bring to football the organisational skills that have made me such a big fish in retailing, then Athletico Whaddon need have no fear of ending up on the slab. BNC

3. Mr Coughlin is one of the directors - a big fish. CIDoI

mať vedľajšiu známosť

1. After a moment he added, "Anyway, if you knew Elsie as well as I do you wouldn't blame Sidney for getting a bit on the side." BNC

2. Sometimes, when one or the other partner grows obscenely fat, goes mad, is obsessed by TV or joins a monastery, the temptation to find "a bit on the side," can be very compelling. BNC

3. My mind went back a couple of months to when Charlie'd asked me if I'd like to make a bit on the side. BNC

čierny deň, nešťastný deň

1. It was a black day for Chancellor Kohl whose personal popularity has been steadily eroded over the past two years and whose ability to provide the CDU with effective leadership will be questioned more seriously than before. BNC

2. I am often asked why Christians name that black day of Jesus' death "Good" Friday. BNC

3. "I still think it was a black day for British boxing when you left the ring," said Huw. BNC

poškvrna

1. The tenth case got off with a very stern reprimand from Matron and a very black mark against her name for the rest of her career.  BNC

2. Incidentally, Willoughby, you've earned yourself a black mark for that little trouble. BNC

3. Unfortunately, the season had not passed without a black mark against Huddersfield's reputation. BNC

sladký román

1. The author of the best-selling Wideacre , The Favoured Child and now Meridon (Viking, hbk 13.99) is a past master of sentimental education, and Meridon is no exception: a hybrid of a novel, rank nonsense with literary pretension, a bodice ripper with a socialist message, as right-on as it's decidedly right-off. BNC

2. That book, a "bodice ripper," will soon be followed by a thriller, inevitably titled Campaign. BNC

3. She`s written a serious novel, not some sort of bodice-ripper. CIDoI

hlavička, múdry človek

1. It doesn't take a brain box to weigh that up, it actually means that 47 people lost their jobs. BNC

2. Come on brain box, what´s the answer? CIDoI

3. I didn`t know he was such a brain box. Google

únik mozgov

1. He also maintains that if the brain drain is to be halted there needs to be an upward hike in salaries in Britain. BNC

2. What impact the British offer would have on the brain drain, which is expected to push over 10 per cent of the population out of the colony before China's 1997 takeover, was not clear. BNC

3. We will establish a proper career structure for research fellows and set up a Pay Review Body for academic and non-academic staff to halt the brain drain. BNC

usilovná včelička

1. In fact I was quite a busy little bee last night. WASPS

2. They 're busy little bees in here.  The restaurant 's nice. WASPS

3. She`s as busy as a bee, always going to meetings and oraagnizing parties. CIDoI

výnosný obchod, zlatá baňa

1. It becomes a cash cow business in that you generate a lot of money from existing assets, with minimum investment. BNC

2.  This would be quite consistent with seeing the product as a high-yielding cash cow, in the mature stage of its life-cycle. BNC

3. A chocolate and wafer combination, it strikes directly at arch-rival Rowntree's £130m cash cow Kit Kat. BNC

výprodej před zrušením obchodu, likvidace (zboží)

They're going out of business and are having a closing down sale.

primeraný plat

1. A competitive salary with fringe benefits will be offered. BNC

2. In return for your commitment, we can offer a competitive salary benefits package. BNC

3. We offer a competitive salary, together with excellent terms and conditions of employment. BNC

niekto, kto sa  chce presadiť, uspieť

1. "To choose time is to save time," Francis Bacon said, a go-getter if ever there was one. BNC

2. The hot, hot multimedia system out there right now was developed by Robert Abel, the noted Hollywood middleman and go-getter extraordinaire. BNC

3. I remember him as a real go-getter - someone who you knew would reach the top of whatever profession he chose. 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

dotieravý človek

1. Ethel Hallow was the form sneak and goody-goody, and it was hardly surprising that Mildred felt unfriendly towards her after all the mean tricks Ethel had played during their first two terms, including almost getting Mildred expelled on two occasions. BNC

2. I was such a goody-goody at school it was unbelievable that I was pregnant. BNC

3. Oh, Dana's goody-goody sister. Oops, shouldn't have said that. BNC

gordický uzol, ťažko riešiteľný problém

1. They had joined a Gordian knot of vans, taxis, and automobiles that was inching forward at a pace that had set that little muscle in his jaw to knotting and unknotting. BNC

2. If Gorbachev expects to untie the Gordian knot, he has over-estimated his powers. WASPS

3. Homelessness in the inner cities has become a real Gordian knot. CIDoI

 ťažko riešiteľný problém, tvrdý oriešok

1. I find this a very hard nut to crack. BNC

2. In other words, though the UK may be a hard nut to crack, Christians are better positioned than any grouping other than Muslims to effect change here in an understanding of and commitment to strengthening the poor. BNC

3. A company whose product has sold well in the States may find the European market a hard nut to crack. CIDoI

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

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

vážne rande

1. They mentioned that you and Anna walked a hundred miles and that you were following it up with a heavy date. BNC

2. I've got a heavy date tonight, and it's not one I intend to break. BNC

3. I think Carol has a heavy date - she`s been in the bathroom for over an hour. CIDoI

babská jazda

1. Elsa organised a hen party; which included many of her colleagues and friends from Douglas Reyburn. BNC

2. The occasion is another dress fitting on Saturday followed by Heather's hen party, which is organized by a very efficient journalist friend of hers in London, with a little help from me. BNC

3. A policeman who walked into a hen party in a pub had to fight to keep his clothes on after being mistaken for a stripper. BNC

úspešný človek

1. They've made it fairly clear to me that I'll never be a high-flier, but every company needs some people who aren't high-fliers, and that's all right by me. BNC

2.  Even the most competent high-flier, it seems, feels totally inadequate when faced with a child who simply will not get down to work. BNC

3. In the same way, you need to know if he wants to be Prime Minister; would you be happy being a high-flier's wife, with all the pressures that can bring? BNC

niekto, kto má viacero zamestnaní

1. Are you a jack of all trades or do you prefer to specialize? BNC

2. In the early days, Stevenson described himself as having been a Jack of all trades. BNC

3. Bill can do plumbing, carpentry, or a bit of gardening - he`s a jack of all trades, really. 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

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

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

niečo, čo zaberá veľa času a je vyčerpávajúce

1. It was a long haul across the highland roads to the nearest airport and railhead at Inverness. BNC

2. Waterville Valley and the World Cup finals in late March was going to be a long haul. BNC

3. It`s been a long haul but we`ve finally got the house looking the way we want it. CIDoI

boháč

1. Edmund Hornby of Dalton Hall had bought the living for his second son, and George, being a man of means, decided to upgrade the mean existing rectory to suit his status. BNC

2. It is called the Red House because it is built of deep red brick, an unusual medium for a man of means, who was normally expected to build in something nobler. BNC

3. I could tell from her adress that she was a woman of means. CIDoI

zabezpečenie finančných príjmov

1. There were times when he suspected he was just a meal ticket to her. BNC

2. Gone are the days when a university degree was a meal ticket for life. CIDoI

3. Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, a former Solicitor-General for Scotland, said some lawyers were deliberately spinning out cases and were on to a meal ticket. BNC

Fúze (spojení dvou podobných společností, které v podstatě poskytují stejné služby)

The merger is due to be completed in July

zlatá baňa

1.Video hire stores say if the movie is a money spinner in the cinema the general video release could well be delayed making the sale of pirate tapes particularly lucrative. JTW

2.Fibres had been one of ICI's big money spinners, but by the time Haslam joined the division nylon was already making a loss and polyester was about to collapse, having been a `jewel in the crown'. JTW
3.It's a bargain for you and a money spinner for the airline, which can take the lion's share of the profits. JTW

nový šéf, ktorý prináša veľa zmien

1. By then the company seemed set to make a fresh start under a new broom. BNC

2. On my advice, the board have determined to sweep a new broom through the club, and wheely-bin those who no longer make the grade. BNC

3. But there was a new broom coming into the English Faculty at this period and, although younger than Simpson, Wilson, Garrod and the rest, he appeared to be more radically reactionary. BNC

výnosná práca

1. With an eye for a nice little earner, Del Trotter dictated his letter of application to chief sports writer Roy Collins. BNC

2. For actor George Cole from Stoke Row in Oxfordshire, the role is a nice little earner. BNC

3. That waitressing job`s a nice little earner. CIDoI

niekto, kto pracuje dlho do noci, nočný vták

1. Non-members may use unbooked courts or play a game with a member on payment of the day membership (guest) fee; unless you are an early bird or night owl where the guest fee is waived for players vacating courts before 09.00 or on court after 22.30. BNC

2. A night owl from his youth, he is rarely in bed before 4 o`clock. CIDoI

3. People called night owls function best late at night and feel drowsy and lethargic during the day. Google

človek, ktorého práca je spojená s matematikou alebo s číslami

1. A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial, more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher. BNC

2. Observers suggest that the appointment of a number cruncher to the key advertising role is a mark of Ford's predicament. BNC

3. She may not look like a number cruncher but she`s with a big firm of accountants. CIDoI

"papierovanie"

1. In this tour through the modern world the way we run things comes to seem ever more absurd, a house of cards built upon endless bureaucracy; a paper chase that leaves us all working frantically to keep a worse quality of life. BNC

2. I was asked to do a straightforward paper chase, as we call it, and a few interviews. BNC

3. To recieve even the smallest amount of financial aid from a college, it`s a real paper chase. CIDoI

organizácia, ktorá navonok vyzerá silne, no nie je

1. Such Maoisms as "Let a hundred flowers bloom" and "Imperialism is a paper tiger" were anathema to Khrushchev. BNC

2. Arguably only if the Library Association failed to take disciplinary action against its members for not putting professional loyalty and practice above employers' decisions would the Code be discredited ; as a paper tiger. BNC

3. Will the United Nations be able to make any difference, or is it just a paper tiger? CIDoI

hierarchie

(the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body)

1. If you want to know the pecking order of the various departments in Britain's universities, try looking at the shareout of the 312 new academic posts announced by the Department of Education and Science last week. BNC

2. There`s a clearly established pecking order in this office. CIDoI

3. In the same way, the rest of the family must be equally firm, thus establishing the pecking order. BNC

človek s nudnou prácou v kancelárii, "kancelárska krysa"

1. I didn't join  the police service to  be a pen pusher or a paper or a form filler. BNC

2. He has his own office, several visitors chairs and even a small couch, he`s obviously not a lowly pen pusher. Google

3. He`s a frustrated desk-bound pen pusher who dreams of trekking through jungles. CIDoI

povzbudivé slová

1. I thought I`d give the lads a pep talk before the match. CIDoI

2. They got a five minute pep talk but they didn't get a sermon. BNC

3. Courier, who had not played well during the first two sets, said he received a pep talk from Agassi that really picked up his spirits. BNC

list oznamujúci prepustenie z práce

1. It was Christmas time when Miller got his pink slip from the company. CIDoI

2. What we've done in the Banbury test centre, everyone who gets the coveted pink slip will get a letter inviting them to ring us on a telephone number where they can book their place on the driving course. BNC

3. In spite of the request for an immediate return, which accompanied the new pink slip, to the office or to Jean Parmiter with the required information over 60 teachers had to be contacted by telephone, a time consuming and expensive way of acquiring the figures etc. needed for the Annual Report. BNC

 ísť do krčmy, ísť sa zabávať  

1. And last month an 18-year-old student at Lady Margaret Hall college broke a leg and injured her spine when she fell out of a window after a pub crawl. BNC

2. They spent the evening on a pub crawl together. BNC

3. I thought we might go on a pub crawl tonight. CIDoI

pokus o podvod

1. It had been the signature of the anonymous letter Bartocci had received suggesting that the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti was a put-up job. BNC

2. But The Sun thought that the meeting was a bogus one, if it was held at all, further alleging that this clandestine organisation (which said that it had met in secrecy because it feared Hooligan reprisals) was a put-up job by someone in the pay of The Daily Telegraph . BNC

3. At the time he seemed honest enough, but later, after I`d given him the money, I realized it was a put-up job. CIDoI

významný pokrok

1. The British system of government was already highly centralised in 1979, and subsequent legislation has produced a quantum jump towards a more powerful and centralised state. BNC

2. The election of a female president is a quantum jump from the meals served at most Caribbean resorts. CIDoI

3. The energy of a beta-ray (electron) is sufficient to excite an atom or molecule and cause a quantum jump, with the input energy being totally absorbed. BNC

súperenie, nevraživosť v práci

1. At least we would be out of the rat race until I had worked up some seniority in my job. BNC

2. I`d love to get out of the rat race and buy a house in some remote part of the countryside. CIDoI

3. After three years working as a photographer's assistant, Jason decided to get out of the rat race and joined ecologically-minded art group Reactivart. BNC

človek, ktorý sa snaží postúpiť vyššie v spoločenskom rebríčku

1. Russell was what you might call a social climber, in as much as he specialized in fitting out rock shelters for himself at various altitudes and if possible receiving his friends in them. BNC

2. He was a dedicated social climber and was at all the best parties. CIDoI

3. Colonel Gouraud was a social climber, who found the phonograph a perfect excuse to fraternize with high society in England. BNC

zoznam dosiahnutých úspechov (neúspechov)

1. Yet advertising their track record in detail worked for Spencer Stuart, especially in one particularly significant shoot-out in which they beat four other firms competing to win the assignment to find a chief executive for the American Council of Life Insurance. BNC

2.His brilliant track record at school is a testimony not only to his academic prowess, but also to his application and determination to succeed. BNC

3. We like to recruit managers with a strong track record. 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

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

• I cannot account for the drop in sales this year. - Neumím si vysvětlit letošní pokles prodeje.
  

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

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

všetko je pripravené (na začatie práce)

1. It's all systems go for the Northern Woodworking and DIY Exhibition which is being supported by Traditional Woodworking magazine. BNC

2. The following day saw a remarkable change in the weather, the wind had dropped considerably, blue skies, and sunshine reigned supreme and it was all systems go for a cracking airshow. BNC

3. We`ve just got to get the software put in place and then it`s all systems go. CIDoI

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

• If we consider all the complaints made by our customers - poor quality, late delivery, slow after-sales service - we must admit that these amount to a very serious criticism of our company. - (...) musíme připustit, že to znamená velice vážnou kritiku naší firmy.
• Your qualifications do not amount to the needs of our company. - Vaše kvalifikace neodpovídají potřebám naší firmy.
  

an estimate [estimit] - odhad, posouzení, posudek

to estimate [estimeit]- odhadnout, posoudit

zločin, prehrešok voči vlastnej firme

1. The police suspected that it was an inside job and promptly arrested the dismissed worker, for no reason other than that she might have borne a grudge against her erstwhile employer. BNC

2. Watson wonders, and the reader, if bright enough, works out that if a dog does nor bark when an intruder comes to commit a crime, then the crime is an inside job. BNC

3. Obviously it was an inside job, because nobody else knew the presents were there. BNC

človek skúsený vo svojom odbore

1. She`s an old hand at magazines, having trained on Cosmopolitan before editing Company. CIDoI

2. I was the new boy at the office, he the old hand wondering what to make of me; but if he was having second thoughts he dismissed them in a sudden grin. BNC

3. Friedersdorf, by contrast, was an old hand in the field of congressional liaison, having worked in the area for Nixon and been Ford's chief of legislative liaison. BNC

apply for a job - žádat o práci

Most of us will apply for a job after finishing this university.

žiadať o prácu

1. Next, when you apply for the job ask the employer to provide a job description that will answer most of the questions. BNC

2. Having just had a row with the acerbic Redwood, Kelly decided to apply for the job as assistant to whoever the new paper appointed as their Belfast representative. BNC

3. It had seemed such a marvellous idea at the time, to leave behind her northern home town, the scene of all her unhappy memories, and to apply for the job Caro had just vacated, to take over Caro's lease. BNC

domluvit schůzku/ schůzi

I have arranged a meeting to be held at 2.00pm.

článek

...articles of an agreement...

majetek, aktiva

The company has recently sold some of its assets to an Australian investor.

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

zúčastnit se schůze

You will be able to attend branch and regional meetings.