let off steamvybít 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 aheadplnou 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 outvychladnout, 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 collarrozzuřený 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 uprozčílit 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 outrozmrznout 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 overzamrznout 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 cloudsmít 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 horizončerný 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
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azure skyblankytné 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 |
drop sth like a hot brick/potatozanechat, 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 applausebouřlivé 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 itjenom 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 hopezáblesk 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 |