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)

chytat bronz (opalovat se)

I thought I'd take my lunch outside and catch a few rays. (The Free Dictionary)

Why not catch some rays at Guantanamo Bay?  (Google)

pirát silnic

One could never accuse Jacob Rees-Mogg , 22 , fogeyish son of Lord Rees-Mogg , of being a road hog. (BNCB)

A road hog is someone who won't let you in, even though it makes no difference to their overall progress. (Google)

A goat is driving his car but he is blocked off by a road hog. (Google)

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)

mrzne, až praští (velmi chladné počasí)

It's brass monkey weather today, isn't it!  (The Free Dictionary)

It’s minus one degree Celsius, in what meteorologists describe as "brass monkey weather" in Queenstown. (Goole)

I hope you don't freeze - it's still brass monkey weather here. (Google)

selský rozum

Maud talked with a mixture of pedantry and horse sense that impressed him as singular and forcible. (BNCB)

I always thought she took me for a crank whose horse sense , if any , was a forced calm not to be heeded. (BNCB)

Has he got enough horse sense not to get into debt? (Google)

být křivý

George W. Bush (demonstrably as crooked as a dog's hind leg in water) will nominate the next chief justice. (Google)

The politician was as crooked as a dog's hind leg and everybody disliked him. (Google)

Snatch is full of cartoon cruelty, of men as crooked as a dog's hind leg.(Google)

slon v porcelánu

He was like a bull in a china shop with our new clients. (Google)

An extremely clumsy person, as in Her living room, with its delicate furniture and knickknacks, made him feel like a bull in a china shop. (Google)

He behaves like a bull in a china shop. (Google)

schovat si něco na horší časy

Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day. BNC

Luckily she had saved some money for a rainy day. CALD

She has a couple of thousand pounds kept aside which she's saving for a rainy day. CIDI

chytrák

The growers appeared to be facing ruin until one bright spark hit on an idea. BNC

should have realised that genius, as some bright spark in the office said, has a lot to do with genes. BNC

So some bright spark produced small tasty jam-filled doughnuts and said they were the missing holes. BNC

kousek pravdy

Very likely there is an element of truth in both suggestions. BNC

There is an element of truth in the belief that too much sex can curve your spine and rot your bones. BNC

She couldn't cloak her antagonism which was all the worse for the element of truth in what he said. BNC

zahalený mlhou

There are enough woods, marshes and fog-shrouded moors to hide a bloody army in this Godforsaken land! BNC

Blake continued to walk through the fog-shrouded streets.  BNC

As the film opens, a Surprise midshipman thinks he has spotted a distant object in the fog-shrouded sea, yet when he calls this to the attention of Captain Aubrey, he can’t find the object. WebCorp

bezstarostný, nerušený

I'm kind, honest, unclouded, passion to friends, faithful to family and loyal to love. WebCorp

Based on my reading of ancient Jewish texts--including the New Testament, I am optimistic that a fresh, unclouded vision for God's kingdom can be regained. WebCorp

Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. WebCorp

sluneční paprsek

A thistledown floated into the bright phallus of the sunbeam and hovered over his face. BNC

 Little flecks of gold whirled around him in the air, like motes in a sunbeam.  BNC

And the hump-backed blueness behind her spread a flat sheet of flesh as the first sunbeam touched it in the valley of shadow. BNC

nejsou žádné hranice

Now the sky is the limit, it appears, for Arazi, who heads next for the Kentucky Derby, at Churchill Downs. BNC

The sky is the limit now for interest rates, warned top City broker Paul Turnbull. BNC

Five months before the appeal reaches its climax, Alex have already topped the £1,000 mark, and organisers say the sky is the limit. BNC