být zavalen ( prací)

It had been swamped with work in the first months after the allowance's introduction. BNC

I felt swamped with liquefying despair, weak enough for tears. BCN

No wonder MI6 and the CIA had been swamped with material. BNC

zpochybňovat

I don't want to pour cold water, Folly, but what if they didn't believe you? BNC

Arsenal were in the final, but Chapman poured cold water on hopes for the Double. BNC

Sadly the beloved eldest brother, Beverley, who had poured cold water on the whole idea of Eva going to Africa, was never to hear of her success. BCN

náhlé rozsáhlé změny

Agriculture, too, felt the wind of change, with an agronomist, Rafael Cavestany, taking the ministerial place of the Falangist Carlos Reín. BCN

What made this work possible at this particular time was the wind of change that was sweeping across Europe. BNC

When the volume of work increased, as it did throughout central government, the wind of change hit the Lord Chancellor's Office with particular force because it started from such a tiny base. BNC

z ničeho nic, z čista jasna

It must have seemed to Bragad's minions that we were falling on them out of thin air. BNC

They only saw him: it was very sudden, just as if he had materialized out of thin air. BNC

She seemed to appear out of thin air. CALD

Wait, I just flashed on a possible solution to our scheduling problem. CIDPV

As the Labour losses and Conservative holds flashed on the screen, desperate looks were exchanged. BNC

The backs of the heads of the first and second officer and engineer flashed on the video screens. BNC

vyvolat vzpomínku, zaletět, vrátit se

Her mind flashed back to the day of their divorce. CALD

Suddenly something she had heard her daddy read out from a newspaper flashed back to her. BNC

She lay on her back staring up at the ceiling and her thoughts immediately flashed back to Luke and last night. BNC

letět, pádit, rychle ubíhat

But the days flash by in a blur. BNC

Plan every move carefully, for the twenty minutes of half an hour available to you will flash by, and seem like seconds. BCN

Larger animals which are not subject to the whims of wind and current may flash by or come closer for a brief look. BNC

problesknout hlavou

When Nicky Mohan was sent off all thoughts flashed through my mind. BNC

Some snatch of verse from a Jacobean tragedy flashed through his mind. BNC

An image flashed through my mind of thousands of angry, shouting blacks carrying torches through Beverly Hills. BNC

jednorázový úspěch, záblesk úspěchu

Sadly, their success was just a flash in the pan.CALD

Yet England had played so well that, equally, there was no reason to think it would prove to be a flash in the pan. BNC

I really did feel like a Queen for a moment, well, even longer when I found it was not a flash in the pan, but that they were really going to stay with us. BNC

bleskově, jako na koni

I'm not a great fan, but I enjoyed the first one, The Tempest , enormously and the evening went in a flash. BNC

The bruiser bawled at her, but she was out of the door in a flash. BNC

Sometimes knowledge comes in a flash, sometimes one does not have to see someone for weeks at a time. BNC

v plném proudu

He looked at the river which was now in full flood. BNC

Manningham was in full flood, downing his drink and pouring himself a fresh one. BNC

Sir Thomas was in full flood, though his performance seemed to lack its usual fortissimo, thought Oliver to himself. BNC

zátopové území

They had built up the fabric in their minds again and could even feel some weary well-being as they neared Weem and saw it sheltering between the steep hills and the flood plain of the Tay. BNC

For example, there is a wide flood plain alongside the River Severn and a great embayment of flat land covered by drainage ditches south of Apperley in Deerhurst. BNC

What happened was that farmers, seeking more land, encroached into the flood plain where the river had split into a number of channels. BNC

zkouška nanečisto

We decided to do a dry run at the church the day before the wedding. CIDI

Like previous Lloyd Webber productions, the show was given a dry run at Lloyd Webber's annual Sydmonton Festival, held at his 1,200-acre Berkshire estate.  BNC

It was meant to be a dry run for a much bigger event in September. BNC

zvětrat, rozpadnout se

No doubt the ice sheet preserves specimens that would weather away more quickly in other regions. BNC

Because the bricks will only be fired two-thirds of the way through, the top one-third will weather away with time, leaving a piece which will be truly sculpted by the outside forces.WebCorp

The softer mudstones weather away faster, leaving the more resistant sandstones jutting out. WebCorp

liják

From the balcony I watched the stream of figures in white pyjamas rushing through the pelting rain to the shelter of the mosque. BNC

He lay on the goose feathers, looking at the beams, feeling the soft pelting rain massage away the binding layers of ambition, lust, wickedness, pain, revenge… BNC

Not even the crackle of the fire and the pelting rain could disguise Isabel's quick gasp. BNC