fair weatherpěkné počasí All of our fair weather and times of trouble hope pale in comparison to the hope described in the readings of Adventide. BNC The air search crews are being helped by fair weather conditions. BNC It was by all accounts a good match and fair weather was maintained throughout. BNC |
fair-weather friendnebýt přítel do nepohody I had a lot of money and I knew a lot of people, but most of them turned out to be fair-weather friends. CIDI Watch out for a fair- weather friend or a back stabbing buddy Wednesday and don't be too disappointed or upset if someone you like and admire turns out to be a real rotter with feet of clay. BNC I had warned you that Tina was only a fair-weather friend. WebCorp |
feel under the weathernecítit se ve své kůži I'm feeling a little under the weather - I think I may have caught a cold. CALD I began to feel under the weather on Thursday morning after leaving Haslemere. BNC You may feel under the weather this month but it will simply be from lack of energy. WebCorp |
fickle weatherbláznivé počasí The industry has marketed Britain energetically as a year-round destination, with many attractions that do not leave the visitor at the mercy of our fickle weather. BNC Am tired of fickle weather patterns and unreliable rain clouds. WebCorp But fickle weather conditions can turn a clear day into a raging storm in a moment’s notice, so hikers should be prepared in terms of clothing, backcountry experience, and fitness. WebCorp |
fit to droptotálně vyčerpaný After the run they were fit to drop. CALD I'd just walked 10 miles and I was ready to drop. CIDI Then, when I was feeling fit to drop, Tumbleweed said he'd show me Flakebridge Wood, which lay beneath a range of foothills under the Pennine Edge. BNC |
flash backvyvolat 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 |
flash byletět, 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 |
flash floodnáhlá záplava A couple of years ago these lanes were far from peaceful when a flash flood swept through the area. BNC A MONSOON flash flood swept away a bus in northern Vietnam, killing 41 passengers, the state-run radio said. BNC The rescue came in the nick of time as the sewer filled with flash flood water just minutes after the pony was brought out. BNC |
flash onWait, 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 |
flash through sb´s mindproblesknout 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 |
flood plainzátopové 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 |
fog-shroudedzahalený 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 |
forked lightningrozvětvený blesk Outside the rain had continued to torrent, the urgent rattling of the shutters interspersed by drumrolls of thunder and forked lightning. BNC The overwhelming blackness, the cracking peals of thunder and the piercing flash and hiss of forked lightning; I've never since been in an alpine storm of such ferocity. BNC He liked the forked lightning better than the zig-zag kind and now he was gratified by a second many-branched display that seemed to spring and grow from the river itself, blossoming in the sky above the Kingsbrook meadows. BNC |
freak gustprudký náraz větru Blown over in a freak gust outside the Metropole on 6 December 1940; car 50 was subsequently broken up. BNC PASSENGERS waiting to board two 400-seater jumbo jets saw the planes lifted up and thrown across the tarmac by a freak gust of wind. BNC A freak gust of wind, perhaps from a passing jet, and we lost the balloon envelope. WebCorp |
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 |