dostat do bezvýchodné situace, nechat na holičkách

I can't just leave him high and dry either. BNC

The stock market crash left us high and dry with debts of over £200 000. CALD

You have the gut to ask about him after you left him high and dry for Peter six months ago? WebCorp

nechat bez povšimnutí

Women's football teams feel they are left out in the cold as far as media coverage is concerned. CIDI

The government's transport policy leaves people who do not own cars out in the cold.
CIDI

Farmers were fed up with a political system that left them out in hte cold and they responded with steps into the political arena. WebCorp

závětrné pobřeží

At midday an unseasonal wind began gusting from the east, and our calm anchorage was transformed into a choppy lee shore. BNC

We closed the reef rapidly, approaching a dangerous lee shore with the wind and waves astern.BNC

A nasty cross sea seems to haunt its approach which nearly always brings you beam on to a lee shore and makes steering difficult. BNC

vybít se, odreagovat

It's just that he wants to let off steam, and you're the only person he can lose his temper with. BNC

After a long journey, the kids need to run around a bit and let off steam.CIDI

Meetings give people the chance to let off steam if something has been bothering them for a long time.CIDI

vyžvanit něco

General public was again locked out from the beta, but a posted direct link to the invitation acceptance page may have let the cat out of the bag again. (Google)

Neither of them is prepared to let the cat out of the bag. (Google)

The mayor’s visit was to be kept strictly confidential, but someone must have let the cat out of the bag, because the airport was swarming with reporters. (WebConc)

hromosvod

Glasgow's first lightning conductor drank the power of creation and waited for more. BNC

Two physicists at the University of Sydney in Australia had a piece of copper tubing, used as a lightning conductor, which had been crushed as the electrical current passed through it. BNC

Franklin had also been invited to advise Glasgow University in the matter of a lightning conductor. BNC

jako namydlený blesk

He leaped over the tailboard of the lorry like greased lightning. BNC

I mentioned work and he was out of the room like greased lightning. CIDI

I have seen created players such as the shortest, lightest player that can be created, who can run like greased lightning. WebCorp

dívat se na to z té lepší stránky

Hey, look on the bright side, at least it gives them a head start for their biology GCSEs. BNC

Look on the bright side, you're braver than I was. BNC

She should look on the bright side, she kept trying to tell herself.  BNC

hnusné počasí

What lousy weather!BCN

Then we can spend what's left of the night discussing the lousy weather with them, was the disagreeable reply to this nervous question. BCN

Mother Nature served up some pretty lousy weather during the eight-week break. BCN

obloha pokrytá beránky

The buzzard over Florida in the mackerel sky that stretched from west to east symbolized death in the trajectory of Columbia's return.  WebCorp

The white glare of the bay in summer was heightened by a mackerel sky. WebCorp

There was a mackerel sky, with the clouds dropping on the mountain-tops till you could hardly say which was which. WebCorp

dělat blbce z

 Don't let other ales make a monkey of you, drink Dregs! (BNCB)

A CHIMPANZEE financial whizzkid that has beaten stock market experts could not make a monkey of British share analysts yesterday. (BNCB)

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. (Google)

kout železo, dokud je žhavé

I've got a few hours to finish the housework before the kids come home so I might as well make hay while the sun shines. CIDI

It's not enough to enjoy yourself, you must make hay while the sun shines.  BNC

Make hay while the sun shines, you know. BNC

dělat zbytečnou vědu, nadělat s něčím

He's making heavy weather of writing his report, Ingrid finished hers days ago. CIDI

It's the people with easy lives who make heavy weather. BNC

So it is not surprising that adolescents sometimes make heavy weather of the whole process. BNC

střílet do vzduchu, plácat do větru

Even then you have to make wild guesses as to what is going on till everything is explicitly told.WebCorp

The idea with this list is to give answers if you know them, not to make wild guesses -especially when a few seconds of testing would show you that your guess was wrong. WebCorp

Officials stated they can only make wild guesses, as the equipment is essentially still in development. WebCorp

roztavit

They melted down the gold rings and bracelets. CALD

Most importantly, when a metal artefact is damaged or becomes redundant, the metal can easily be melted down and recycled into another artefact. BCN

Any large bronze objects will have been taken and melted down long ago, probably in the fourteenth century BC. BNC