úterý, 14. května 2024, 15.04
Stránky: OpenMoodle
Kurz: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Slovník: CLIMATE

let off steam

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

full steam ahead

plnou parou vpřed

Now that problem is out of the way, it's full steam ahead to get the job finished. CALD

Good news, to the editor, was when house prices were going full steam ahead. BNC

If it is full steam ahead for next year, I'd predict that it won't be a marathon slog, although we'll probably try to do as many countries as possible. BCN

chill out

vychladnout, uklidnit se

What he should do is chill out, get a job and pay off his debts, but he doesn't. BNC

Chill out, Dad. The train doesn't leave for another hour! CALD

I'm just chilling out in front of the TV. CALD

hot under the collar

rozzuřený

The other customers were almost as hot under the collar as Phyllis, but for very different reasons! BNC

But they get hot under the collar about trips behind the old Iron Curtain. BNC

Two leading ice cream manufacturers are getting hot under the collar in a row over trade. BNC

get all steamed up

 rozčílit se, dostat se do varu

She got all steamed up about the books being left on the tables. CALD

This is why Peter gets so steamed up with the sales people from the software houses. BNC

It means thinking before you speak, trying hard not to get all steamed up and confrontational. BCN

thaw out

rozmrznout

I'm only just beginning to thaw out after taking the dogs out this morning. CALD

That night it freezes hard and next morning after a brief breakfast we thaw out the boat and set off again. BCN

Sit down there, Myles, and thaw out.  BNC

freeze over

zamrznout

One last word of warning, if your pond does freeze over at any stage, don't smash the ice as the shock waves created will also kill the fish. BNC

If the mud flats freeze over, it is impossible for them to find sufficient food. BNC

They don't know about cold so intense that rivers freeze over so you can drive a horse and cart across them. BNC

have one´s head in the clouds

mít hlavu v oblacích

He's always got his head in the clouds or down a tunnel. BNC

He seemed to have his head in the clouds, to be living in a dream of gold. BNC

Then I remembered; today I would walk with my head in the clouds, it seemed. BNC

a cloud on the horizon

černý mrak na obzoru

The only cloud on the horizon is the physics exam in June. CALD

There was a cloud on the horizon, however, which worried the Bradleys. BNC


But you go to the middle of nowhere and Nicky would look up to see a black cloud on the horizon and ask what it was.  BNC

azure sky

blankytné nebe

Now picture in your mind something gentle and peaceful ; perhaps white clouds drifting in an azure sky; perhaps gentle wavelets on a sandy shore. BNC

In seconds the air is filled with hexagons, their Dacron lines shining bright white against the azure sky. BNC

Thin streaks of high cloud trailed across an azure sky. BNC

Every cloud has a silver lining

Všechno zlé je k něčemu dobré.

As the trip's been cancelled I'll be able to go to the match this Saturday. Every cloud has a silver lining. CIDI

Every cloud has a silver lining.
It's just a shame that every silver lining's got to have a cloud. WebCorp

Every cloud has a silver lining means that you should never feel hopeless because difficult times always lead to better days. WebCorp

drop sth like a hot brick/potato

zanechat, utéct

He dropped the plan like a hot potato when he realized how much it would cost him. CALD

Charging pensioners and children for medical prescriptions picked that one up and dropped it like a hot potato and charging for hospital treatment and why so why not do a U-turn on on this one? BNC

The government dropped the plan like a hot brick when they realized the bad feeling it was causing. CIDI



storm of applause

bouřlivé ovace

But to hear the storm of applause with which his BUF followers greeted it was more terrifying still. BNC

Patrick heard the roar and the storm of applause and guessed that his curiosity had made him miss the shot not only of the tournament but probably of the golfing year. BNC

Fortunately, though, he saw his son dancing in the first theatre of the country and was proud to see the audience's storm of applause for him. WebCorp

cool it

jenom klid, ne tak zhurta

Cool it, Jay! she told herself, this is all very new. BNC

Then from behind the bar a hunk the size of Ludo and with a nose like a squashed pear tells them to cool it: we aren't police, he says. BNC

Cool it, Steve, and tell me why you're so ecstatic. BNC

ray of hope

záblesk naděje

Another ray of hope is the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO) which was established in 1986. BNC

Do you think it holds out a ray of hope among the problems which perplex us all so sorely today? BNC

Finally in eighteen thirty, there was yet another revolution in France, and that brought him a a ray of hope. BNC