plešatět

He was a big, dark, heavy man something in the manner of a friendly black bear, going a little thin on top.

It may be a better idea for him to grow his hair a little longer so it doesn’t look so thin on the top.

Life’s never dull when Ronny’s around. If Graeme Souness is going a bit thin on top, it is probably the result of watching Rosenthal on one of those days.

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snažit se, jak to jen jde, ale zbytečně

Mr. Clinton may say that he wants to concentrate on domestic policy until he is blue in the face; the truth of the matter is that in a federal system such single-mindedness will not get him far, because most domestic policy is reserved to state and local governments.

We come back to this theme of the double witness, by the Holy Spirit and ourselves, which the New Testament continually brings before us. A preacher can talk till he is blue in the face, but he can never bring anyone to faith in Christ.

It wasn’t your fault that Mark got lost in the Sahara was it? You can tell them till you’re blue in the face and they still do what they want. It’s the same with men as well isn’t it?

We can make laws and regulations about pollution or wildlife trade until we are blue in the face, but without enough money for enforcement they will not be effective. In animal welfare and conservation the problem is international and immense.

vymknout se z rukou, přestat být kontrolován

Things were getting a little out of hand by 1981, when Lorna, the last Miss Keating, died, and the Trust began a programme of gentle restoration.

It can get a bit out of hand but it’s up to the officers to keep discipline

And how long have you been homeless? About six months. Why are you homeless? Well I used to share a, share this flat with my mate and erm you know, she got a bit out of hand, she kept bringing all these people home and she kept having these parties and it was really difficult for me to study.

protloukat se, žít velmi chudě

I can’t afford to take you out properly or buy you a proper Christmas present, or be able to tell you not to worry - I’m twenty-eight years old and I’m still living from hand to mouth like a bloody tramp.

There was nothing between rhetoric and imperative. He had no policies. He lived from hand to mouth making instant resolves every time he opened his mail.

A few years ago Glen Robins was unemployed and living from hand to mouth. Now he’s a computer operator with a firm of designers.

odstrčit koho lokty, prodírat se

If my wife manages to elbow her way past me to the book first, she’s immediately led astray by extras like free use of private beach.

Numbers of those he excoriated had been encouraged into the professions by business parents and that for an entire decade the Establishment had been elbowed aside by the Thatcher appointments policy.

The current had already sucked us out into the centre of the river, and we were gathering speed downstream. I elbowed Karen unceremoniously aside and grabbed the paddle.

They elbowed and fought and gave each other tongue-sandwiches, and spat at passers-by and in each other’s faces.

vz ít na svá bedra, převzít

It was always considered necessary for a man to shoulder the main burden of work at a farm the size of ours.

Who, to come to my point, is to shoulder the responsibility?

The task will undoubtedly fall heaviest on Andre Fontaine, who with the death earlier this summer of the newspaper’s founder Hubert Beuve-Mery, has to shoulder the burden alone. I look around, he says, and there is no one there behind.

ponaučení, náhlé zjištění něčeho nepředpokládaného

If you feel like it, buy one and have a browse. It can be a real eye-opener to find how many calories there are in the foods you normally eat.

We came together on one point, and that was our attitude towards the media. It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press.

It had been my first alpine climb, and it had been an eye-opener. I had not expected the level of exposure, the narrowness of the arêtes, the commitment.          

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otrava, protiva

Many who professed to revere the principle found it hard to like the example they were faced with in Mr. Rushdie's case: the book unreadable and the writer a pain in the neck.

I've been married for 16 years to a man I really love. But lately he's been a real pain in the neck. He comes in from work and sits in his armchair all evening, hardly talking to me.

What will we be doing? Will there be much walking? Will it be up hills? You know and immediately can you see, you've asked him all these questions you can see what a pain in the neck you are to all the people you've asked these questions of.

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jablko sváru

France has a persistent trade deficit with Germany and this is sometimes a bone of contention between the two countries.

But Ilona's alter-ego remains a bone of contention between them. He accepts her porno past but demands from her a virtuous future.

If it failed to prove adequate to secure full employment, then changes in taxes to encourage private investment and consumption should be made, but the question of budget deficits remained a bone of contention.

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dobrý nos, dobrý čich

Once roasted, coffee will deteriorate quickly. Coffee contains volatile gases which must not be lost after roasting if the beans are to have a good nose. (BNC-B)

I was happy here once, he told her. There was nowhere to sit but on the narrow bed beside the fireplace. I can smell something, Stella said. I’ve a very good nose for smells. (BNC-B)

tušení, instinkt

Remember I thought of having him in Ireland - I wish I had. But I suppose I thought it was, like I was trying to tell him today, a gut feeling, being Irish. It's probably a phase he's going through.

Ferguson said: I think Howard is looking to strengthen other areas of his team. I had a gut feeling Eric was the right man for us and good value at the price. And it all went so sweetly.

Beverley, though, was convinced that something was seriously wrong with her son. I felt very tense about it - I had a gut feeling there was something awful around the corner, she says. Then Thomas developed a gurgling cough.

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tvrdá ruka

We have the power to act and we will do so if necessary, he said. I see it as my job to protect the council taxpayer. I don’t want to do this by having a heavy hand at the centre, I want local councils to be more responsible.

I could describe crowded bank holidays with troops of walkers on the high tops of Scotland and the ugliness of the skilifts. I could equally describe the dense wilderness that settles on you like a heavy hand, barely an hour’s walk from Yosemite’s granite architecture. But while Scotland ’s wilderness areas are still not as overcrowded and overdeveloped as Yosemite or even the Lakes, the damage is there.

The French have a heavy hand. They like to use an elephant gun to stun a flea. You’ll see that when we get ashore. I’m told they behave here as if they expect their empire to last forever.

člověk mé krevní skupiny

Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright, astonished and disarmed, and burst into a muted crow of laughter. By God, my lord, I think you are a man after my own heart!  (BNC-B)

On the contrary, it kept me so wide awake that when “lights out” sounded that night I was still reading, and next morning was first on deck in the history room. This Tom Jefferson was a man after my own heart ! His whole crowd belonged to my league. (WebCorp)

Ivor really is a man after my own heart, full organic status from the Soil Association. (BNC-B)

hřebík do rakve

For Doctor Who this was a sad loss. Not only was it a loss to the series of Malcolm Hulke for a good many years, it was also a nail in the coffin of the show’s bid to be genuinely educative.

In it Tobin said he needed a bit of cash, a loan. He’d tried everywhere else in Swindon, and if he told the Inland Company, it would be a nail in the coffin.

Government funding for Mar Lodge’s future through Scottish Natural Heritage couldn’t be agreed to because it would be a nail in the coffin to admit that the present deer forest system is at the root of the most serious problems for the Cairngorms.

praktická zásada

As a rule of thumb, moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place.

If you need a rule of thumb, any item which is common or plentiful is 90% likely to be here.

As a rule of thumb, we found that girls are prepared to watch programmes aimed at boys.

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oko za oko

There was the same mission to conquer land with gold replacing milk and honey, a wagon-train exodus, a plethora of heroes with a policy of taking an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Above all, God was on their side. This Old Testament of the West has been up-dated.

Richard took her to a friend’s party and afterwards, when they were driving home, he said, You know what’s happened, don’t you? It’s been killed by that old mad woman. An eye for an eye. A cat for a cat.

His determination and stubbornest to carry out the bond is also regarded as immoral. However, in the Old Testament, it states an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

výztuž kolem kotníku

The padded ankle collar and tongue provide an overall comfortable fit.

The boots are constructed using a solid one-piece leather upper with padding around the ankle collar and on the suede bellows tongue.

Padded ankle collar and rand to protect base of uppers. Lacing uses conventional D-rings and hooks.

po kotníky (hluboký)

The only team who disdained such artifices were Fiji , who are used to playing in ankle-deep water.

Allen, ankle-deep in water and with no hope of carrying the ball forward, chalked up his 14th of the season when he unleashed a crashing 25-yard volley.

A large, lumbering man, who fumbled through the ankle-deep water without grace.

zavěšeni do sebe

All around me there were young couples, arm in arm, doing the same.

The streets were crowded with evening strollers. Young couples, arm in arm.

Based on a painting by an early-80s Berlin Realist, it depicts enigmatically two adolescent girls standing arm in arm, geared out with shades and boogie box and dressed in clothes which accentuate their stockily sensual bodies.

kam jen oko dohlédne

The house was at the bottom of a valley near the reservoir, surrounded by rolling hills. There were green fields as far as the eye could see.

My method was to look ahead as far as the eye could see, work out the route mentally, then, leaving the wheelbarrow, test the ground in small sections and mark the way with my feet.

The road - little more than a track with deep ditches on either side - was elevated above the surrounding countryside. No other vehicle was in sight as far as the eye could see.

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bez rozmyšlení

One of these, often referred to by the police, is the unrealistic fear that many people, particularly the elderly, have of their society. They take at face value cases such as this one involving the policewomen, and they really believe that they live in a society that has lost all its civilized values.

In the absence of an experiment, a statistical effect of one variable on another cannot just be accepted as causal at face value.

To conclude our review of criminal statistics, it is clear that official statistics on crime, like most statistics, should not be taken at face value as facts to be accepted uncritically.

na blízku, nedaleko, po ruce

I couldn’t stand it. I saw the cherry and realized an opportunity was at hand. Had just the stuff in the shed. Should have got rid of it years ago, but hadn’t.

Be prepared for this and ensure that you are close at hand with a reverse punch.

Designs are now being considered for small ice-lined cabinets for doctor’s surgeries, so that doctors can have vaccines at hand to immunise any child who comes for treatment.

na dosah ruky

They are our hidden universities, with some of the leading academics in their fields, the best specialist libraries and the stuff of history at their fingertips yet they work largely unsung and unknown.

They had, at their fingertips, the right numbers to ring and the right people to talk to.

With 1,200 hotels now on TravelWeb, consumers have a lot of information at their fingertips.

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v podvědomí

My parents are not educated, they won't understand. At the back of their minds many girls feel that perhaps, even if they told their parents, they would fail to understand, or take in a situation so different from their own educational experiences.

And always, at the back of his mind, there was the business with the Police.

Whenever he sat up, the preserve on his chest was intense. His stomach seemed to be floating on a rising tide that compressed it against his sternum. At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air, that his lungs could not sustain the pressure that they would collapse.

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za strany koho, kvůli komu

The structure has suffered little at the hand of man, or from the lapse of time, so that without much imagination it is possible to picture it as the builders left it about the year 1410.

Professor Levy will see you now. And she directed us to an examination cubicle adjacent to the great man’s room. We waited behind a closed door which opened at the hand of a rugged dark-haired, dark-bearded man in an open white coat who said: Hi, I’m Ron Levy.

A child who suffers abuse at the hand of a stranger can expect comfort and protection from his or her family; incest victims often have no-one to whom to turn - those who should support have been the cause of suffering.

na konci světa

Once Bernie and I dragged right across town to a pub in the back of beyond in North London because we'd seen a gig advertised there featuring a band called The Teenage Rebels.

The train from the Back of Beyond is about to arrive at the Middle of Nowhere. A week out of Moscow across Siberia and five time zones later you somehow land up in landlocked Mongolia.

She was appalled at the idea of living in the wilds, as she put it. To expect her to bury herself in the back of beyond, away from all her friends with just Penry Vaughan for company, constituted adequate grounds for divorce in her view.

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zlá krev

"If there is bad blood between you and them," said I, to soften it off a little. (Google)

But don't imagine to yourself that I make myself bad blood on that account. (Google)

If we had not been all nearly on an equality in the matter of wages, these distinctions would have made bad blood among us. (Google)

třísknout pěstí (do stolu)

Graham banged his fist angrily on the table. A couple at the next table scowled at him but looked away when he glared back at them.

The old Monsieur le Président, who had presided so long in his own way at the top, shouted and banged his fist before leaving the room.

What he was doing - when that crazy mare put three fucking bullets in him. Go on, call them. He banged his fist down on the table and glared at Kellerman.

házet hrách na stěnu

It was like banging your head against a brick wall to attempt to fight against Movement Orders.

Although she was terribly fond of the children she found that working with them was like banging her head against a brick wall.

I must admit that I got fed up with pursuing it and I think it's like banging your head against a brick wall in the end. Yes. Didn't really have the energy to pursue it.

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být jedno ucho (bedlivě naslouchat)

I listened, all ears, to hear what she was saying.

I'm listening, Jaq shouted. I’m all ears.

D' you want to hear? I’m all ears.

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pozorně sledovat

And there was too much evidence of the view that one more heave for power will do. It won’t. With all eyes having been on the Government, Labour can get away with one conference like this one.

Such are the changes infiltrating society that now long-serving criminals are helping supply the soundtrack to the big throwdown. But while all eyes are on the hot-spots of Eastern Europe the real action is taking place in clubland. You don’t have to get stuck into Sky to hear the cry Burn Hollywood Burn.

The FT-SE 100 Index shed around 4 points at 2717.9 at the close but over the next few weeks all eyes will be on the pound.

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být na ostří nože

Of course native Siberians sometimes fought among themselves, just as the various national and religious communities of Europe were often at each other's throats.

The Socialist Party had not only suffered its worst election defeat in 25 years but also given every appearance of being in the process of disintegration. Its leaders were at each other's throats.

If the rest of the media were anything to go by, you'd assume that most women were at each other's throats. Especially on the issue of maternal responsibility.

Two of France's proudest industries are at each other's throats over a perfume called Champagne unveiled by fashion house Yves Saint Laurent.

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být komu v patách

She heard him running down the stairs, problems at his heels. Not asleep. Just having a think.

He watched the last of the brothers slip away still awed and silent through the cloister, and followed with a glance the swirl of Robert Bossu’s crimson skirts as he crossed the court with his two attendants at his heels.

Mr. Henry Hawkes, a farmer residing at Hailing, in Kent, was late one evening at Maidstone market. On returning at night, with his dog, who was usually at his heels, he again stopped at Aylesford, and as is too frequently the case upon such occasions, he drank immoderately, and left the place in a state of intoxication.

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šlapat komu na paty, funět komu na záda

Most lord lieutenants are scarcely in jobs where they have employers breathing down their necks about time off, but there can be substantial day-to-day expenses.

Those moments when the heat is on, the chips are down and reality seems to be breathing down our necks.

Well with all those people breathing down his neck it's probably put him off.

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být nabručený, mrzutý

So he becomes, first an accuser of his brethren, then an accuser of God, and finally the despairing accuser of himself. Such people are like a bear with a sore head. The first solution is mutual confession of sin and wrong feelings, and this may have to happen again and again with the same people.

You know you're doing wrong, said the team leader who was like a bear with a sore head for the rest of the morning. He was a powerfully built man, who had aroused resentment at the firm because he had constantly called the administration staff morons!

You know how men are when they've had a glass too many. He'll be like a bear with a sore head when he gets up. Are you suggesting my husband's been drinking?

lhát, jako když tiskne

I know enough about geophysics to say that these people are lying through their teeth when they claim they can eventually guarantee long-term safety underground.

You, Fernando Serra, are either lying through your teeth, putting on a brave face or you have the same loose sort of arrangement with your mistress as you accused me of having with Steve.

Their Liberal and Labour opponents, whose foreign policy clothes had been so comprehensively stolen, were reduced to assertions - unconvincing to most voters - that the Government was lying through its teeth. In fact, of course, it was.

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mlít z posledního, být v koncích

Charlie, is on his last legs, has been for years and, might as well have him put down, as that Nick keep saying, I think I’ll have to have him put down he, when he takes him for a walk he collapses..

The torch beam dimmed perceptibly. The battery, like the torch’s owner, was on its last legs.

Mother did all the cooking as well, and there was a problem in that department too because our oven was going home - that is to say, it was on its last legs - even before the war. But Mother did the best she could and made rabbit pies, apple pies, and obtained a very good recipe from Mrs Fawcett.

být odložen na později

He wants the matter to be put on the back burner until the Republic have taken another important step towards next year's USA finals.

Hornet's Richard Wolfenden points out that the company has not been liquidated but put on the back burner until production can be resumed abroad with lower costs and overheads.

Ratners thought this through a couple of years ago and then found itself locked into the game of pushing price to keep volumes moving and everything was put on the back burner.

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být na rozpadnutí

Dennis clambered out looking disgruntled. Bloody thing's on the blink.

What's the situation out there? All haywire. Your computers must be on the blink.

I must apologize for keeping you waiting, Miss Stanton, he said formally, indicating a chair and seating himself to face her across a big black desk. My telephone's on the blink.

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potázat se se zlou

His boss sent him off with a flea in his ear. The experience did much to colour his thinking. I got rather fed up with industry, he recalls.

Within Shell, Mr. Steere has a reputation for bluntness, a man who is likely to send away those riddled with worry and indecision with a flea in their ear. Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions is a phrase he likes to use.

Colin Firth’s Darcy finally spoke his mind after two weeks of staring in silence at Elizabeth (Jennifer Ehle) with a fire in his heart. Of course, she sent him off with a flea in his ear, outraged by his ungentleman - like manner of proposing, incensed by reports of his high – handedness.

vyzývavý pohled

Sisters don’t have that Things-Were-Just-Getting-Interesting look. What look’s that? You know - sort of bedroom eyes. Bee-stung lips? Lots of those. And sort of moving about inside her dress as though her bra was suddenly too tight. She could have been putting it on. (BNC-B)

Modelling is a multi-million-pound industry and something of a meat market. Ashton and others are in the business of selling bits of bootiful young women long legs, bedroom eyes, immaculate breasts, perfect bottoms and succulent visual slices of superb lips, hands and feet to anybody who will pay. (BNC-B)

věřit svým očím

I didn't realize that she'd let her hair grow out. She was quite white. I couldn't believe my eyes. And the nails on her right hand were filthy. I had to clean them.

She lifted the towel that covered the big bowl we use for making bread. There was my baby brother, chewing on his fist. I couldn't believe my eyes. Mama, I didn't see you do that, I said.

But it was to be over a month before Dad turned up again. When I first saw him I couldn't believe my eyes - he was dressed from head to toe in khaki.

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pokleknout (obřadně)

Sardinia is a land whose past is riddled with bloody brigandry and often inexplicable feuding; a land which at various times in the past has bowed the knee to such untoward arrivals as the Vandals and the Goths (not to mention the supreme midfield general of his day, Napoleon Bonaparte).

Seru completed the Fijian try-count while Scott Pierce clawed one back for the bemused Kiwis. Pierce, having bowed the knee once, decided to do so again after the game when he proposed to girlfriend Jane Harris under the posts.

He transformed himself into an heroic king of England , and the theatrical court bowed the knee. He played Henry V in February 1949 on his beloved BBC radio, the home of the Word and poetry and all that mattered.

kousat si nehty

It was the middle of the week when the Marui Pipeline Masters should have been on and wasn’t that I ran into Pottz in D'Amicos. The north wind was still blowing, Randy Rarick was still biting his nails, and surfers patrolled the Kam Highway , boards poking out of jeeps, strapped to cars, balanced on bicycles, searching in vain for rideable waves.

This fellowship does not of course embrace Rome ; in Pilgrim’s Progress, Christian encounters Giant Pope, old and biting his nails because he can not get at the pilgrims, and mumbling to them.

His mother had been singing with a company playing in a northern seaside town and he had lain on his bed in the boarding house, biting his nails, sunk under a terrible inertia.

držet jazyk za zuby

But Trevor told me it was tactical, so I've got to bite my tongue and accept his explanation.

When I was in prison I used to grip my fingers and bite my tongue and think.

There are a number of things that have happened while I've been here that I have disagreed with, sometimes quite strongly, but I am not a dictator and I have had to bite my tongue.

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utrhnout se na koho, utrhnout někomu hlavu (přen.)

The biggest concern of the executioner, a man named Billington, was that the now quivering bulk of a fifteen stone woman would snap her head off as the rope took up the slack on the trip through the trapdoor.

The silly idiot is going to shout some sort of stupid abuse at her and she’ll bite his head off!

She was some girl! Not two minutes in his company and she was biting his head off. Now she didn’t want to go to an expensive restaurant in the West End .

krvavý, násilný

The election in Northern Ireland isn't about a penny off income tax or hospital beds. It's about blood and guts and death.

Yeovil became the most successful non-League club in FA Cup history in this blood and guts seven-goal thriller. They were 4-0 up with seven minutes left when the game boiled over with two sendings off, three more goals and the referee escorted from the pitch by police and security guards.

Moving away from the mainly blood and guts stuff, this is a more involved horror thriller which should help expand his market.

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jablko sváru

Now, my dear souls, don't let us quarrel and make Rose a bone of contention.(thefreedictionary)

The family property was a major bone of contention when their father died. (esl.about.com)

Pets are a new bone of contention in US courts.(Google)

odchod inteligence za lepším výdělkem, odliv mozků

Professor John Ashworth, director of the London School of Economics, agreed with most of the letter's points, but disagreed with the assertion that there had been a brain drain as a result of Government mismanagement.

Both newspapers claim they acted legitimately. Top Oxford scientists join brain drain to US By Roger Highfield, Science Editor

A LEADING British team of chemists has joined the brain drain to the United States . The main problem that Ash foresees is among the younger academic staff. He could not argue, looking at Imperial, that there has been a major brain drain of senior staff.

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mentálně chorý, šílený

He says his gait was like that of a roe, starting hither and thither, not staying, not stopping; he was brain-sick. One man said his feet and eyes were in constant motion. (BNC-B)

Princess (at the Croydon Warehouse) must win the booby prize, clumsily confounding a few bogus circus tricks with the fall of Communism and life of Leonid Brezhnev’s spoilt daughter Galina in her brainsick old age. (BNC-B)

mozkovna, mozková kapacita; mozek (chytrý člověk)

Can brainpower bolster Berlin’s economy? Kewenig has persuaded the state of Berlin to give him DM 11 million (nearly £3 million) to establish some centres of excellence, and attract more first class researchers.

But with economies in the whole region growing so rapidly, skilled labour is at a premium and countries are doing all they can to hang on to their brainpower.

It is helped, it acknowledges, not only by research and development grants from the Israeli government, but also the current influx of brainpower from the former Soviet Union .

mozkový trust, skupina expertů

Truman played for time by appointing a brains trust of three to advise him.

One summer I was invited to chair a Brains Trust at the Scottish Lawyers’ annual conference at Aviemore

He liked his personal style of government, and his establishment of a Cabinet Secretariat and his own personal advisers or brains trust in the garden suburbs.

hledat nové nápady, inspiraci

Another approach is to use brainstorming. If you need some creative inspiration - which direction to take in your career, which city to move to, how to tackle a relationship problem, where to go on holiday.

The plans for each session are clearly laid out and various learning strategies are suggested: discussion; brainstorming; role play (with additional situation cards); exercises; reflection.

Every employee is encouraged to produce ideas and no suggestion, however small, is rejected without serious consideration. Sections and departments hold brainstorming sessions and posters are displayed to encourage the climate of innovation.

vymývat mozky

One of my main questions arose from the constant accusations that have been made that Moonies (and other new religions) actually brainwash their victims - this being the only explanation that seemed plausible to many of the parents and friends who had observed the often radical changes in behaviour wrought in those who joined the movement.

But that’s no reason to brainwash them into staying at home. Women should be free to choose what suits them - and their families - best.

It is highly inflammatory and implies an aggressive campaign designed to brainwash people.

zlomit srdce komu

It does break my heart when very generous people bring me a bottle that I know means more to their budget than it does to my palate.

She is everything I could ever have wanted. It will break my heart if I had to give my little girl up.

I am your mother and nothing can change that. But if you marry that woman, you will break my heart.

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srazit někoho na kolena

A woman wants a man to be strong, and then some perversity in her enjoys seeing him brought to his knees - was that it? Certainly she seemed inclined to despise him for giving way to her.

She began by destroying the contents of the studio, slashing all his canvases, painted or not, then tracking the felon himself, and mounting an assault that literally brought him to his knees, in fear for his balls.

That anger carried onto the pitch. In the first exchange, Robinson brought James to his knees with a low cross and then brought Jones down with a late tackle.

vyhrotit, vyvrcholit

The debate on the defence section of the party’s policy review report, Britain in the World, brought to a head the anger felt in sections of the party over Neil Kinnock’s shift away from unilateralism.

The crisis came to a head on 27 June 1961 , when the British Embassy in Baghdad reported the movement of Iraqi troops and tanks from the capital to Basra .

Matters have come to a head with the publication of a new and more detailed insurance group rating system which insurers say will enable them to pinpoint the higher risk models more accurately.

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těžce poškodit, zdevastovat

Dzerzhinsky had been made Commissar for Transport in the first place to deal with internal troubles among the railwaymen, many of whom had opposed the Bolsheviks in 1917 and nearly brought Lenin’s government to its knees after the October Revolution.

It took a rare combination of management failure, over-ambition and bad luck to bring such a business to its knees. By accident as much as design the Ashleys created a remarkable international brand, tapping a worldwide nostalgia for the English country cottage look. Sales boomed during the mid-1980s.

In the past China had been plundered by westerners eager to exploit large markets and in doing so they brought the nation to its knees. The contemporary open door was to be for the benefit of the Chinese, not their disadvantage.

jen o vlas

Littlewoods Cup holders stayed in the competition by the skin of their teeth last night at Leeds Road .

Consolation for Bush came with the Indiana result. He won, but only by the skin of his teeth. He held Oklahoma, South Carolina and Nebraska, but other states forecast victory for Clinton by staggering margins.

He was shot getting away with the ransom. And two others got away by the skin of their teeth.

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ústně

Finding a personal trainer is like finding a good hairdresser it should be done by word of mouth and looking at the results.

It is important now that we capture these traditions; much is handed down by word of mouth and is in danger of dying out.

It is known, of course, that the books of the Old Testament were composite works from many different sources, and may have been transmitted by word of mouth for hundreds of years before being set down.

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tajně

Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor, in a drab overcoat, let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle, keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless.

One young representative, Colin Mason, a computer systems manager from Streatham, who branded environmental controls as socialism by the back door, was gently advised by the Secretary of State to read the Tory philosopher Edmund Burke.

The similarities are made more comprehensible in the 1930 essay, Baudelaire, where he sees Baudelaire's Satanism as an attempt to get into Christianity by the back door.

It would impute to Parliament an intention to import the convention into domestic law by the back door.

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přelétnout očima co

Haverford, his head cocked on one side, was casting an eye over blonde girls from Sweden, Guildford or Saskatoon, quite undiscouraged when they didn’t return his smile but merely quickened their pace towards the souvenir stalls.

The professor shrugged, casting an eye over Davide’s good jacket, to inform him that his information was unnecessary.

In these circumstances investors are continuing to cast an eye over convertibles - the yield can be considerably higher than on the underlying equity and yet the premium on the conversion price need not be too large.

upoutat něčí pozornost

Prime Minister is normally here a couple of times a week to answer questions maybe the honorable gentleman will catch my eye one time very soon, he can put that to the Prime Minister himself.

Small monkeys catch your eye with spooky recognition.

She poured tea. Passing Peter to take a cup to Daniel, she tried to catch his eye, to give him a little loving glance, but his expression was withdrawn.

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změnit majitele

Accordingly, most of these companies will change hands by way of private contract between the shareholders and the buyer.

The contracts are the written agreements between you and the seller - setting the price, terms and date for the property to change hands (completion date).

Paintings and old prints of Madeira are always sought after and sometimes change hands for high prices. (BNC-B)

zatnout pěsti

Stand with the feet shoulder-width apart and clench your fists, holding your arms by your sides.

Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height, knuckles upward, elbows at your sides. Open your fists.

Time it so the breath runs out as the arms reach full stretch, then breathe in through your nose and at the same time, start to clench your fists and bend your elbows so that they are again near your shoulders, elbows down.

přijít pod ruku

You’re trying for something that’s funky, something that sounds good, and you just grab whatever comes to hand.

The property is completed some time before completion of the sale, have received the standard notice of insurance cover to hand over, in which case you will give an undertaking to do so as soon as it comes to hand.

Research shows that as many as a third of all break-ins happen after entry has been gained through glass - often simply smashed with the nearest thing that comes to hand. GE Plastics has introduced a strong new alternative to glass for home use.

snažit se uškodit jinému a přitom ublížit sám sobě

For his part, Bernard is firm that he has already quit. However, he seems aware (Maybe I’m cutting off my nose to spite my face) that the market for idiosyncratic columns combining aspects of the upbeat worldviews of Samuel Beckett, Serge Gainsbourg and Victor Meldrew could not be described as bullish.

A social charter for the world may sound a good idea but it would have the opposite effect to what is intended, one British government source said yesterday. We would be cutting off our nose to spite our face.

Wimbledon were outclassed and, more surprisingly, outfought. Not even a typically robust return from Squadron Leader Jones whose three - match suspension was a case of trying to bite off a nose to spite your face, could inspire Joe Kinnear’s desperately depleted ranks. Having four centre-halves out injured doesn't help.

podříznout komu krk

How would you feel about imprisonment? I’d rather cut my throat than go into an institution.

And in sickness, say - and wounded, as he was - how if a prisoner hampered their movements too much? They might be forced to discard him - and a stray company working at large would not scruple to cut his throat, though Owen would.

The moneylenders then looked to Sim for the cash and threatened him and his family. On one occasion heavies approached him in the street and cut his throat, near to the jugular vein.

vzít komu vítr z plachet

What is everyone going to start thinking when they see how you've cut the ground from under my feet like this? What are my students going to think for goodness' sake?

In the process, soul has been installed as something that bolsters your life, rather than knocks the ground from under your feet. The extremism I once heard in soul has been evened out.

When delegates from various provincial committees came to St Petersburg for consultations in August 1859, Nikolai Miliutin cut the ground from under their feet by presenting them with an outline of the Commission's views which went far beyond what they had in mind.

bezohledný, vražedný

That is the chief reason that the search for native talent has become so cut -throat a competition and why transfer fees have soared way over the goalpost.

Getting Diana on the masthead of her magazine would be the ultimate coup for Tilberis in the cut -throat world of fashion journalism.

Yesterday’s mortgage price promise contained all the hallmarks of Mr. Longhurst’s undoubted marketing ability. But the C&G has always been a price leader in the highly cut-throat mortgage market.

zapřít se, zašprajcovat se

In the end, all the Arab states dug their heels in and demanded refugee repatriation as an essential element to peace, thereby joining Israel in linking the refugee issue to an overall peace.

But despite the biggest backbench revolt that this Parliament has seen, the Government has dug its heels in a refuses to acknowledge the public call for action.

For a salesperson to disregard the emotional aspects of dealing with objections is to court disaster. The situation to be avoided is where the buyer digs his heels in on principle, because of the attitude of the salesperson.

dělat něco hravě, levou rukou

She said they did everything in teams, for the honour, and what was the good of that, when she could leave them all standing with one arm tied behind her back?

As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests, however, it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back.

She was so used to this sort of conversation that she could, as it were, verbally handle it with one hand tied behind her back.

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sešlý, opotřebovaný, omšelý

She’ll be scrawny and down at heel, I bet. A poor relation.

He said he’d noticed that our Mini was getting a bit down at heel, and in the light of Ken’s injuries he thought the least he could do was to give me a better means of transport.

There was an oily cap on the top shelf of the wardrobe and a pair of much worn and down at heel working boots under the bed.

chodit kolem horké kaše

While it was clear that as long as unanimity or qualified majorities were required, it was possible, as several of the member states were to do, for states to drag their heels and delay a programme.

No doubt the rest of Europe will say yes to that, but the British Government will, as usual, drag their heels on such a development.

I am very sad that the Government - for the next few months, anyway - are trying to drag their heels and opt out of so many important aspects of what the Community is doing.

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ušní lalůček

Aunt Fosters had always seen, in the lack of ear lobes, a lack of character, a trait of unreliability and of deceitfulness.

Now gently pinch the edges of each ear, working from the top down to the ear lobes.

Repeat once or twice, finishing by pulling the ear lobes gently downwards two or three times.

mezi čtyřma očima, osobně, tváří v tvář 

Live work is the one area where the artists and audience meet face to face.

Most people when confronted with a horse will pat it. Why? If two people meet socially, face to face, sooner or later one of them will speak, or acknowledge in some way the presence of the other.

I have not seen her alone face to face all the time we have been here and when I do see her in company she is won’t to turn from me.

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utkání, konfrontace; buly, vhazování

Confronting Billy with his unworthy behaviour towards her husband, she exposes this legend as a cheap fake. When Sorella recounts this face-off, it’s also intended as a moment of recognition, an anagnorisis, for the narrator.

That could start tonight as Chelmsford go to Medway in the Essex Radio Midweek League. Tomorrow they entertain Stevenage (face-off 8pm) with a crowd likely to be boosted by employees of potential sponsors, Midland Bank.

The Chinese vessels blocked the path of the Philippine naval vessel as journalists were lifted off in helicopters to inspect Mischief Reef, which China has seized and fortified. The face‑off was the clearest illustration since China fought Vietnam, in a naval battle in 1988, of Peking’s determination to claim all the Spratlys as its own.

vyznít na prázdno, zůstat bez vyslyšení

The only government response so far has been another round of interrogations and detentions. The petition will fall on deaf ears because any admission that the government might have made a big mistake would seriously undermine its legitimacy.

The Secretary of State, Sir Patrick Mayhew, urges caution until the document is finally agreed, but his words may fall on deaf ears.

But their calls for a return to the old days fall on deaf ears.

cítit co v kostech

I had a feeling McCartney was reported as saying that what my friend told me was true. I could feel it in my bones. And I have something to back up my suspicions.

Then simply take my word for it, she said consolingly. You will see your prince again and be very close - I feel it in my bones!

It's all going to be perfect! I just know it! I can feel it in my bones!

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rvát se zuby nehty, ze všech sil

He would also fight tooth and nail to keep her from the likes of Tommy Allen.

He is prepared to fight tooth and nail to stop anyone opening one near his house.

I will fight this tooth and nail and won't hesitate to organize a demonstration right outside the airport if necessary.

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zorientovat se, rozkoukat se

It is fair to say that both of them deserve time to settle: in the past I got it wrong and I was fortunate to get three years in which to find my feet.

At fifteen years old I started my drama course and I couldn't have been happier. It obviously took a while to find my feet with the group but when I had done I really started to enjoy myself.

I had recently stayed with him in Scotland : knowing him was a help, for I felt out of my milieu. Lord Airlie also went out of his way to help me find my feet.

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z první ruky

Of what use was reading about life? First-hand experience held more appeal.

In the first place, everyone travels by car and therefore everyone has first-hand knowledge of how awful the roads are.

They are less likely to dominate than are men, because they have such painful first-hand experience of what it feels like to be oppressed by those in authority.

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pěstní zápas

Staff got frazzled, speakers got angry and there was almost a fist fight between some of my colleagues and the lighting technicians.

And I’ve never seen a case in which there was a fist fight in front of the cinema and they pulled the movie because of it.

And eleven of them got involved in a fist fight in the middle of one of those New York streets. It must have been a lovely sight.

zcela protiřečit, naprosto odporovat čemu

Once again we’ve had to witness the horrifying sight of Christmas carnage on the roads because a few stupid people fly in the face of common sense and drive like lunatics whatever the conditions.

Labour will give people more say in drawing up plans for their area and create a new right of appeal for residents against developments which fly in the face of their local plan. Beneficial development will be speeded up, damaging development checked and the green belt safeguarded.

What is more, Cox suggests that support in the South is at best lukewarm. Nonetheless, the characterization of catholic - nationalist ideology I have just documented would seem to fly in the face of this sort of evidence.

jít ve šlépějích koho

But the bulk of his beers come from Belgium, where some of Rex's happiest moments have been passed in breweries, sometimes following in the footsteps of Michael Jackson, who has graced the Cook's Delight annual beer tasting.

Mitsubishi is expected to be the next Japanese company to begin car manufacture in Europe following in the footsteps of Nissan, Toyota and Honda.

He could have followed in the footsteps of some of his more notorious predecessors, by gambling, drinking and scandalizing society.

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řídit se instinktem, jít rovnou za nosem

Finding her was easy enough, I just followed my nose.

As the floor numbering system at all modern universities is totally unintelligible to everyone except the drug-crazed mathematician who thought it up, I just followed my nose.

Don’t worry, there’s no danger of me getting lost this time. I smelled the coffee and followed my nose.

postrčit koho, dotlačit koho k předčasnému jednání

The great imperial Zanuck was not amused at Boyo Burton’s refusal and tried to force his hand. On occasions like these, friends of Burton reported, he would counter-attack by releasing his temper, tearing up the room.

His alternative is to call in the army, as he did in 1986 when low-paid police rioted in Cairo. The Islamic militants, by hitting Egypt ’s tourist revenues, would dearly love to force his hand. Military intervention would raise serious questions about the stability of the regime.

The reason for approaching the Archbishop in such a manner was essentially to force his hand as, according to Mrs Whitehouse, he had frequently seemed unwilling to become involved in public debates on questions of morals.

z ruky do ruky

Coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand.

At Magdalen Bridge , Dennis went ashore for more champagne, which passed from hand to hand as we negotiated the lower reaches of the river.

Cambridge , says a contemporary, who made not himself a disciple of Mr. Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes, and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines.

z celého srdce, ze srdce, srdečně

We would like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all your help. (Free Dictionary)

And I say from the bottom of my heart, I am so happy to be back in South Africa. (Free Dictionary)

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being the best sister anyone could ever have. (Google)

od pasu dolů

Geordie tiptoed down the beach towards the sea, his top part a deep tan, from the waist down a dirty white colour.

For months he had hung between life and death, with a bullet in his spine. Then he had been brought home, paralysed from the waist down, embittered and resentful.

A fairly young man in Italian leisure wear from the waist down and nothing but a tan from the waist up appeared from a cabin, ready to repel boarders.

od hlavy až k patě

He gazed at her across the room, dressed in black leather from top to toe.(thefreedictionary)

Robin observed him furtively as he trimmed his staff, measuring him from top to toe from out the corner of his eye, and thought that he had never seen a lustier or a stouter man.(thefreedictionary.com)

Discover how Clarins Hydra-Care range can help you maintain the ideal moisture level to keep your skin looking fresh and supple from top to toe. (Google)

dostat strach

I began to get cold feet, but these other two guys were totally positive and they were absolutely right.

It was obvious by September 1990 that Gorbachev was getting very cold feet about both economic reform and national self-determination within the Soviet Union.

Difficulties seemed inevitable and if the bank got cold feet, Taylor Woodrow would be finished. Nothing did go wrong, however.

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mít toulavé boty

Jane tried to comfort Flora by telling her that her own two younger children had got itchy feet at sixteen too, and left school: her son had gone on to a sixth form college which he found highly satisfying.

He's getting itchy feet and will soon be back riding for trainers.

And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that's when I went to Liverpool.

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vykročit nesprávnou nohou

Dyson got off on the wrong foot with Morris from the very beginning, even though Morris politely stopped writing while Bob introduced them.

There doesn't seem to be anything to live for, she said. I got off on the wrong foot, and I'm never going to get it right now. It's too late.

I always seem to do my best when the big players are around on the big occasion, not at smaller tournaments like these. Montgomerie got off on the wrong foot by commencing with a trio of bogeys.

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spálit si prsty

The same is true for lenders. Some lenders have already had their fingers burnt and have had to write off loans and lose their investments, rather than take on responsibility for contaminated land.

Bill frequently got his fingers burnt and even now he wonders if his servicing procedure was strictly legal.

He is not going to have his day spoilt. I just don’t want anyone else to get their fingers burnt over this, she said.

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dostat se do toho, získat zručnost

I hope you will want to take time and make your own discoveries. As I was helped in getting my eye in by visiting two important houses in Bath, you may wish to do the same. (BNC-B)

This sequence is typical of what can be done in such surroundings once you have got your eye in and have begun to link your shots together visually or by association of ideas. It is certainly more fun to shoot video this way than to take unrelated pot-shots.  (BNC-B)

pochopit co

It felt like I was inside and part of a huge virtual reality machine. I couldn’t quite get my head around the fact that this vast underground world existed, going on and on underground with chambers, tunnels, streams and pools, all underneath hills, roads and houses.

But I remember Puzznic very fondly as a game that I could actually get my head around (it’s very flexible you know); even a thicko like me can understand the concept of joining corresponding icons together.

I just can’t get my head around this idea of defining oneself by one’s genitals. I don’t see how you can describe yourself by saying what your sexual orientation is.

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lézt krkem komu

And he's asking viewers to write in with things that get right up their noses. If the complaint sounds familiar, Gerry'll phone you during the show.

Everybody annoys you but you don't think you annoy, and yet you never stop to think if you may annoy people as well. You get right up my nose you do.

I don't know why I didn't think of it myself. I mean, you and Edward aren't involved emotionally like we are, and he's not going to get right up your nose in the same way and I'll know where he is and that he's all right.

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ulevit si, vyzpovídat se

You need to clear the air and get deep seated anxieties and worries off your chest.

No doubt you feel better now you've got that off your chest.

Come on now; if it's bothering you so much you'd better get it off your chest.

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lézt krkem, štvát, jít na nervy

He was the sort of bowler you couldn't get the ball off even when he'd been hit all round the field. This boy Chapple strikes me as having that sort of heart. It's the temperamental ones that get up my nose.

The confrontation with De Niro came in the foyer of London’s Savoy Hotel. I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box office draw.

I feel I must write to you concerning your interview with Tony MacMahon about Irish traditional music. I agree with a lot of what he said but one point he repeatedly made got up my nose.

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dostat, dát nakládačku

If I thought you were serious, I would give you a thick ear! I’ve been there, don’t forget, and I’ve seen how you are looked up to. You’ve got responsibilities, and you can’t shirk them.

He guesses that it is something to do with education and reflects wryly that all we got was a bible and a thick ear.

And I remember the first time, I poured a whole jugful of water in. Without realizing I was lucky that her hands were stuck in the dough she would have given me a thick ear, you know, for doing that.

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začít něco dělat, vytáhnout ruce z kapes

If they don’t get their finger out, they will lose almost all their business to the direct trade.

Our Dutch correspondent Remi Ebus pulls his finger out (of the dyke) to reveal the latest PD developments.

On the golf club one if you’ve really got your finger out and you’re known well enough you could you could do one in day.

rozčilovat koho

Seems a good idea on the whole, but whatever you do, don't go writing to that ruddy man at the tax office any more or you'll get his back up.

Now I must admit my first thoughts of it were it really gets my back up for some reason or other. I don't know whether anybody else feels like that but I do.

Did I tell you about that bloke the other week who got, the one who just cocky with me? Ooh God! He really got my back up!

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dar řeči, dar výřečnosti

You may need help over self-discipline, praying for others, using the gift of tongues, suitable reading, dryness, finding your praying is very different from others in your house group.

In the front room she started to hold prayer meetings that were almost like seances. Presently she found that she had the gift of tongues: notions of sacrifice and immolation and of a saviour with hair of sackcloth poured out of her mouth like a river of lava.

There is no doubt among those who have been given the gift of tongues that their prayer life and their ability to praise God in all circumstances has grown dramatically.

dát cokoli (za co)

We have no film of Nikisch - imagine the fascination of that if we had. I would give my right arm for just thirty seconds. I remember after the war in Bayreuth spending many hours with an old bass player who had worked under him.

I just felt like I would have given my right arm to be there with a camera - and that stayed in my mind for a long time.

On the one hand we have what appears to be pop star wingeing, but most people would give their right arm to be the principle subjects on a tour of this scale. Nothing is more annoying than when a dole queue fan shells out six pounds for a ticket to a show which is nothing but a huge yawn for the artist.

dát volnou ruku

Giving employers a free hand to hire and fire is creating insecurity, says the TUC's John Monks.

Although the constitution gives the President a free hand to sack ministers or deputy ministers in the interests of good governance, it stipulates that he must do it after consultation with other party leaders.

Once the piece was ready, the film-maker Adam Roberts was given a free hand to shoot it as he liked.

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pomoci komu

Why don't you give me a hand with the rest of the work? You might enjoy doing something like that.

There's some people standing round watching me, but they don't give me a hand. They just stand there looking at me.

I'll give you a hand with the packing. Then I'll drive you to the station.

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chovat se chladně k, chovat se nepřístupně k, dát komu studenou sprchu

Members of her own family were also giving him the cold shoulder when they heard he was being investigated by the Ratcliff and Barking monthly meeting.

Mr. Lamont was given the cold shoulder yesterday when he was told he was not needed for a crisis meeting back in Britain.

He was given the cold shoulder by the Clinton administration, and rightly, and frankly that sort of behaviour i s entitled to the odd nod from this Union.

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pomoci komu v nesnázích

Courtaulds has given a local school a leg up the business ladder by helping them set up shop as scientific equipment suppliers.

Come on, Miss Pargeter, someone must have had an interest in giving Nicola a leg up? The presenter smiled. Only Nicola herself, as far as I can make out.

A short time later they went out to where a bay gelding and a grey mare were tethered and, after instructing her concerning the correct side to mount, he gave her a leg up. It feels so high, she exclaimed as exhilaration gripped her. Don’t be nervous, he advised.

přívětivý pohled, zamilované oči

In the past Hillsdown has been a bit free with shareholders’ funds but the agreed bid for Hobson, announced yesterday, looks a good one. Hillsdown did not always have a glad eye for Hobson.

Whatever else happens, I am not about to let Rainbow back out of this encounter. I worked too hard to set it up. And I won’t have the Apostate scupper all my efforts by giving Rainbow the glad eye.

There was a jarring of brakes and a cacophony of horn blasts as he squeezed into the gap between the Vauxhall and a black Ford. Smile at them, Patrick told Chris. Give them the glad eye.

jít jedním uchem tam a druhým ven

Whatever he tells me seems to go in one ear and out the other.

And what's Lizzy been saying to him, I'd like to know? As always when she was very angry, Evelyn's voice was a thick Irish brogue. Kate let it all go in one ear and out the other.

zatnout zuby

We now reach the part of this history where English fans, if they can bear to continue, will really need to grit their teeth.

But we must start working towards the right British day for tax freedom April 1. For 1995 there is nothing for it but to grit the teeth and get back to work, work, work.

nemotorný, nešikovný, neobratný

In the nineteenth century the chateau was altered further, with some ham fisted restoration and the addition by King Louis-Philippe and the Emperor Napoleon - the Third, not the First - of a sixth tower to go with the five earlier ones.

In her book Riding Through My Life she revealed that the KGB had then made several ham-fisted attempts to spy on her. She arrived at her hotel to find a fearsome woman guarding her door.

Ham-fisted thieves had tried to steal a Metro GTi from my driveway. But in their clumsy efforts to break the steering lock they had broken the steering itself.

v jednom kuse, neustále

For all his altruism, he is intrinsically self-centred. Having been waited on hand and foot for most of his life and had people jump whenever he called, he has never really had the opportunity to be anything else.

He was refighting the Battle of Prestonpans, marching to Derby , advising General George Murray on tactics and encouraging the troops; in his mind’s eye, waiting hand and foot upon his hero, Prince Charles Edward Stewart.

Sometimes, with strangers, excessive expectations of and need for support arise from these earlier relationships (my husband waited on me hand and foot). However, we are in a shadowy area unless we have some secondary verification of how those relationships worked.

ruku v ruce, spolu

He was bent with arthritis but was the master spirit, the source of garden wisdom. She did the bending and the kneeling, and they worked together hand in glove.

Most of the councillors seem to be hand in glove with each other; you can’t make any one of them speak to you, let alone give an interview. I know. It’s some sort of fraud all right.

Fran sat up straighter, feeling the flurry of unease that ran along her spine as once again she wondered what Luke had overheard of that conversation. All night long the thought of his being hand in glove with Harry Martin had lingered at the back of her mind.

uznat, muset nechat

Though I say it myself, your mother and I knew how to throw a party. I remember old Johnny Redburn saying, I’ve got to hand it to you, Ralph, you know how to make things go with a swing.

It would be in your own best interests, believe me. You have to hand it to him, he’s never short of a new idea.

He owns us, the studios from which we broadcast and the building they’re in, although by now he must have recovered whatever his original investment was several times over. You have to hand it to the man. He’s only thirty-four, and he’s done the same thing all over the Far East , taking over struggling and usually amateur or pirate radio stations like this one once was.

raz dva, rychle, šmahem

Etna is tired and must be thirsty, he said in a bitter, parting comment as he left his land. But a bar owner said: Since this all began the town has been making money hand over fist. It has become a tourist trap.

And within a few months we’d got the thing going till they were blowing out, and we were making it hand over fist you see? And What sort of money were you making on that then? Oh were making twenty five bob a day then.

But once he’s resigned himself to that, he’s then gotta look at that operation next door and he must be losing money hand over fist for the amount of space it is. That’s right. He to take out all these walls out, right the way back.

tvrdý, bezcitný

I’m here strictly for business and being dissected does not appeal to me at all. If you want my real character I’ll tell you. I can fight for whatever I want and I’m hard as nails.

Both pictured a glamorous brunette, at least a dozen years older than herself. Beautiful but hard as nails, she’d thought then.

It was easy to see why any man would be beguiled by the woman, Lindsey found herself thinking. She was beautiful, with an air of fragility which, for all she suspected it hid a character as hard as nails, yet was guaranteed to bring out the male protective instinct.

zpevněná krajnice

I saw a child walking along the hard shoulder.

Lord Romsey, of Hampshire, found himself issued with a £40 fixed penalty and a severe ticking-off after he drove on to the hard shoulder to join the M271 near Southampton .

Colin, of Exeter , later saw a police car following, pulled on to the hard shoulder and jumped out.

chtít si s kým ještě něco vyřídit

So Barry Brittlebank has a bone to pick with my grammar. He apparently believes that the construction to recommend that someone does something is more correct than to recommend that someone do something.

That’s right, and I’ve got a bone to pick with one club. Thame United, they’re at home to Milton Keynes Borough in the south Midlands premier league.

Dear Father Christmas I have a bone to pick with you. Diana M Hillsdon, Harrogate , North Yorkshire . I may have reindeer antlers but I don’t have Santa!

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změnit názor

LORD RENFREW, the Master of Jesus College, Cambridge , has had a change of heart. He is talking of reviewing his position as a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Club.

She had already been offered a place at the University of Georgia , but recently she has had a change of heart, and it is now a toss - up between Moray House College in Edinburgh or Stirling University , two establishments which offer golf scholarships.

At the start of it, Pleasence had declared himself to be a conscientious objector and was sent to the Lake District to work as a forester. He had a change of heart six months later and joined the RAF in 1942.

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mít komplex méněcennosti

Charmless Mark developed a chip on his shoulder because so many of the other boys were much richer than him. He always wanted to be a tycoon.

His background might have given him something of a chip on his shoulder; he was a Sephardi, an Israeli descended from Jews who came from Arab lands, rather than an Ashkenazi, the elite of Israel .

He had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he felt that other people who were not so good but who had the right background and connections had gotten ahead of him.

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mít prsty ve všem, do všeho se plést

He’s a developer in those parts and he’s trying to get his finger in the pie.

Recognizing that, when several agencies have a finger in the pie of, say, biotechnology, it is prudent that there should be a committee to coordinate their spending.

I said well what I’m feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said.

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mít se o co opřít, mít oporu

Mr. Habsburg may not have a throne to sit on; he does have a leg to stand on.

If you're cohabiting and the man leaves you, you haven't got a leg to stand on. He has no financial obligation towards you, unless you go to a lot of trouble to prove otherwise, and that could take years.

When it comes to complaining about EC centralism the UK Government hasn't a leg to stand on. We in Wales know it is the most centralist government in Europe . (BNC-B)

mít knedlík v krku

She had a lump in her throat and an enormous yearning to say something beautiful to her father.

Adrian walked towards his classroom with a lump in his throat that might have been anger, or regret, or sorrow.

There were tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat, she said later. I was very moved by it. (BNC-B)

mít vlastní vůli

But it quickly became apparent she was wasting her time. The trolley also had a mind of its own and a tendency to advance crablike, sideways.

This too is a real 3D object with moving limbs and a mind of its own.

Of course the horse named Bess, which I was given, had a mind of its own, since it would always be eating and when it was not it only plodded along.

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mít mlsný jazýček, být na sladké

I have a terrible sweet tooth. How much are those doughnut things?

She found this very difficult to keep to, as she had a sweet tooth and loved cakes.

I've got a sweet tooth when it comes to like chocolates.

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mít cit pro co

I hope you never take it into your head to commit a murder, sir, said the Inspector. You do seem to have an eye for essentials. And how much of this horticultural poison does it take to kill a human being? asked Henry, ignoring this last. Not a lot, said the inspector quietly.

On the other hand, Stanley Morison, responsible for the typographical identity of The Times in the 1930s, was not an adroit penman - he simply had an unerring eye for good typefaces and strong composition.

Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time. He had the eye for detail and concern for quality lacking in Stoll or Samuelson, as well as the sort of business acumen that neither Hepworth nor Pearson had ever displayed.

být dobrý zahradník

He had more or less green fingers, my grandfather. He could grow anything.

Often this type of environment is ideal for a person with green fingers who enjoys growing exotic, subtropical flowering plants.

mít plné ruce práce

My mother had her hands full with housework and caring for four elderly people.

Especially when you’ve already got your hands full running this tidy little ship.

They hardly exchanged a word. Ivy had her hands full with the driving. (BNC-B)

držet koho za krk

Ain’t we going to wait for him? What do you think? Todger practically had him by the throat.

I knew he was all right, he were screaming but I couldn’t - they were both screaming, Cathy and Gary both, and he got me by the throat. He was shaking me calling me a slut and a whore and saying they weren’t his kids - everything, I don’t know, I couldn’t breathe.

He said the English fielders began to chat to him in the last session and he knew then he had us by the throat. I can’t abide that and I have set out to make us more aggressive, but I have not entirely succeeded because we are still not being hard enough on the field.

mít v hlavě co

There are readers whom, as Zuckerman is the first (or second) to acknowledge, he can drive to the complaint that he has sex, and family matters, and Jewish matters, on the brain: I want him to take his manuscript and mail it to his mother, as I have heard them cry.

You've got marriage on the brain tonight, darling. Must be this wedding you're going to tomorrow. What time do you want the car?

The latter sounds like a logical slot the top players are all in Europe , there is no major tournament to prepare for immediately after and the watching public in Britain has tennis on the brain.

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dát na slova koho

As noted above, Pan American Airways and its chairman, Juan Trippe, had the ear of Congress and president Roosevelt, and fed fears of British dominance in the air.

What and who was behind the new Ali, the wily Washington lobbyist who had the ear of everyone from Strom Thurmond to Orrin Hatch? The wife of Senator Arlen Specter even baked Ali a double chocolate-mousse pie.

It was little things which often had a quite disproportionate impact upon burgh councillors, for such a move would give tangible proof that the party which could arrange it had the ear of government and could thus effect other, and perhaps more far-reaching, changes.

být přístupný jiným názorům

In this respect the press are often one step ahead of the police in making explicit some possible connections: Although police are keeping an open mind, it seems likely the anonymous phone caller and the darkly-clothed assailant are the same man.

Police have recovered a hammer at one of the murder scenes. They're keeping an open mind on why the women were killed.

Det Supt Ron Coutts, depute head of Grampian CID, is leading the investigation. He said police were keeping an open mind as to who was responsible.

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pečlivě dohlédnout

Keep your lines straight and taut and your dogs will go faster. Keep one eye on them at all times to avoid problems.

One of the few senior front-benchers with experience of government, he has been keeping one eye on the national campaign, chairing almost all the party 's London campaign press conferences, and another on his marginal Copeland constituency, traveling by hired plane to Cumbria every weekend.

There were a hundred questions still to be asked and answered, but at this speed and in this noise speech was impossible. I hung on, keeping one eye on Neil in case I could help him, and the other on Stormy Petrel.

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zlaté srdce

Kitty’s friend, Georgie , a cockney tart with a heart of gold.

She was well known in Aspull and it had been said she had a heart of gold.

He may be an old moaner, but he’s got a heart of gold.

Old Laz is a pretentious son of a gun, but he’s got a heart of gold. (BNC-B)

svévolný/ ě, panovačný/ ě

When one political interest was dominant in a county, the politician could attempt to carry matters with a high hand, as Colonel John Campbell of Mamore did in 1727, when a dispute arose over the collectorship of Dunbartonshire.

Furthermore the law provides no sacrifice for sin with a high hand, i.e. wilful and deliberate sin.

The subjects vowed eternal fealty to the White Tsar, to be loyal and to pay dues on time. In return the monarch undertook to protect those who had come under his high hand. Ostyaks (Khantys) swore in front of a bearskin on which were laid an axe, a knife and some bread.

uhodit hřebíček na hlavičku, strefit se

A less than shattering experience simply won’t pass muster in this of all Shostakovich symphonies. In an unusually perceptive liner note, Robert Layton hits the nail on the head when he says ` It is the exercise of true symphonic discipline that removes the Tenth from the private world to the universal. Quite so.

Moving on, and if I may say so, you have hit the nail on the head with your reference to the registration and its rarely stated function to boost the circulation of the LTA’s own magazine.

I’ve been having some quite intelligent guesses but no one’s hit the nail on the head. This is the number of the site. Because each site has a number and could you have a guess at how many excavations? Yes? More than seven.

mlčet, být zticha, držet jazyk za zuby

But there were times when he had to hold his tongue, if only to ensure that he could keep on using this fool for his own ends. It amused him to see how the gullible idiot deferred to him, even when they were in the midst of a vicious argument.

Once some Mohammedans were at my house, consulting me about their complaints when night came on. In the middle of our talk I began to speak as if to some demon, telling him to hold his tongue and not interrupt my talk, and let me serve these gentlemen for it was already late.

I’ve been permitted to speak at any meeting dealing with this application. The DOE has authorized me to do so, but not to vote. I need hardly say I have found it difficult to hold my tongue on so important a matter over the last eighteen months.

vést komu ruku, držet koho za ruku, stát po boku komu

A girl of seventeen should be able to go to the doctor’s without someone to hold her hand.

When she’s crying with pain for something like a migraine headache, I just sit in the dark with her and hold her hand.

However, he continued to hold her hand on the walk back to the main track, where he again drew her close to his side while taking her arm.

spát

It was not long before those who had been so rudely awakened by Tebbit's demarche were once again safe in the arms of Morpheus.

It seemed an hour, was perhaps only five minutes - and he left, saying only, I must to the arms of Morpheus It’s late. Good night - frère Robert.

Sleeping while her ugly sisters go to the sex maniacs’ ball. On paper, it’s a perfect equation. Prom Queen meets matinee idol and the earth moves. On terra firma, they fall straight into the arms of Morpheus on their wedding night just like Cindy and Dick.

chladnokrevně, chladnokrevný

It is clear that Professor Wybran has been assassinated in cold blood because he was a Jew, it said. Fifty years after the Holocaust, a Jewish leader is killed in the heart of the capital of Europe .

Finally, he sighed heavily and continued speaking. Your parents' death was no accident, Mikhail. They were shot down in cold blood with their friends, by the KGB.

Four generations of Glynns, and the fourth of the dynasty had got himself murdered in his own office; no heat-of-the-moment crime either, but a carefully planned murder executed in cold blood out of hatred, or fear, or obsessive greed.

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v době, kdy je to aktuální, právě, aktuálně

We have had early notification from Sam Morley of Aedificamus Press that plans are in hand to publish this excellent book, the autobiography of Perla Seidle Gibson, as a Talking Book.

As such, they involve a high degree of trust, good will, confidence and faith in all parties ability to do the job in hand. Musicians must seek legal advice if they are offered any of these agreements, and their legal adviser should be a specialist in the music business.

Maloney said. Lewis certainly possesses the physical attributes for the task in hand. He turned 23 last month, and his 6ft 5in, 16st 11lb frame carries no excess weight.

v představách

I see her in my mind’s eye always in a Fair Isle jersey.

Occasionally she made rolled-up pancakes, and stuffed omelettes, and steak pies with lovely gravy: I have in my mind’s eye a picture of her, sitting in a corner with some child on her lap, and the usual dreamy expression on her face.

As he spoke, the teacher saw Prince Richard in his mind’s eye and recalled the authority in the imperious carriage of the boy's small head on his narrow but habitually braced shoulders.

podobně, podobným způsobem

A more extreme tactic is to start addressing them in similar vein - using my dear or something worse back.

A few years earlier, Alessandro Conti wrote in similar vein of Fra Angelico’s frescoes at San Marco in Florence, saying that they had been permanently disfigured.

The same dialogue continues in similar vein for shepherd and herdsman.

v mžiku

The advantage of the Helblaster is that it can fire several shots at once in a devastating volley. A full volley will rip through the toughest regiment causing immense casualties in the blink of an eye.

No-one wanted personal computers until an American called Dan Bricklin invented a piece of software that would do lots of boring calculations in the blink of an eye.

ve středu zájmu veřejnosti

The mass media, and the television in particular, places the Prime Minister in the public eye as the government, and general elections have increasingly become personalised contests between rival party leaders.

Ahead you’ll find a series of lucrative events which may well put you in the public eye, and carry you to further success and acclaim.

He was said to have been well received by only a few people’s comrades and naturally the old loyal fighters. Hardly ever has a Goebbels article stood so much in the public eye as this one, added the report, but his articles have probably never been so criticized.

navzdory čemu

The British electorate regularly disprove this by electing governments in the teeth of the hostility and mispresentation of virtually the whole of the press.

Even if Mr. Kaifu can deliver a package, he will probably be doing so in the teeth of public opinion (especially if a tax increase is involved).

je to kradené (zboží)

They need frequent renovation, says Brian Miller, Barrow & Hepburn's managing director. They sometimes look as if they've fallen off the back of a lorry.

He was only 18 years old, but was making quite a market on the side in watches and jewellery that he would jokingly claim had fallen off the back of a lorry.

They clearly distinguished between stealing from shops and stealing from houses. A number might buy a personal hi-fi they suspected came off the back of a lorry, but would never purchase goods burgled from a family.

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stát nohama pevně na zemi

We have, in short, to keep our feet on the ground, to get our facts right, and to remember that we are talking about the real world.

It was difficult to keep their feet on the ground when they read about themselves in the newspapers.

She tries to get me to do things around the house, like changing light bulbs and things like that. It keeps your feet on the ground, I think. (BNC-B)

zachovat vážnou tvář

When I told the estate agents I wanted a flat in Soho, most of them had difficulty keeping a straight face but I wanted to live there and I persevered with it.

It is sometimes hard to keep a straight face when Terry gets into his stride on this subject.

I try and keep a straight face, but I can't help grinning at myself.

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dávat pozor na, hlídat koho

Keep an eye on youngsters, and teach them to recognize danger too.

Our neighbors volunteered to keep an eye on the kids who were too absorbed in catching a tan and the biggest fish in the harbor.

She paid an extra dollar a week for Mrs. Benson to put Maria to bed and keep an eye on her, but somehow she didn't think that Mrs. Benson was all that reliable as a child‑watcher.

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mít oči otevřené, pozorně sledovat koho, co

But part of the NCS programme is devoted to new materials, and Wood acknowledged that it would have to keep an eye open for new discoveries like the superconducting buckminsterfullerenes: synthetic chemists are almost certainly going to find new materials.

There was a secret list of useful persons who could be relied on to keep an eye open for promising young men.

We were conscious of the insecurity of our situation. I felt that hidden eyes must be observing us from behind bushes and tree-trunks. And we had to keep an eye open for police patrols.

pozorně sledovat dění, mít přehled, být ve střehu

(In my experience non-graduates, for instance, can find it very difficult to get above a certain level in some companies.) Keep your ear to the ground and mix with people from other departments and those who are in the know. Go along to social events and join in extra-curricular activities.

You can also talk to Jack’s agent. Graham Fearnley keeps his ear to the ground and you never know - he might tell us something.

If you’re in politics you have to cope with two sorts of people, the ones you can use, and the ones who want to use you. Father made sure he was well acquainted with both sorts. He kept his ear to the ground and he spent a lot of time in his office after hours.

odtrhnout oči od čeho

I was deeply conscious of his physical presence, so close and so disturbingly animal, almost electric in its restrained, pulsing sexuality. I tried to keep my eyes off his muscular thighs in their tight blue jeans.

Her red Golf was a frequent sight on the headland, her cottage had frequently met Iris eyes from the top storey of the mill. Now, physically close for the first time, he found it difficult to keep his eyes off her, living flesh and remembered image seeming to fuse into a presence both potent and disturbing.

And it's obvious that he is just crazy about you, honey. Why, he can hardly keep his eyes off you!

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dávat si pozor na co, pozorně sledovat co

The village was in complete wilderness, our toilet a local bush - keeping our eyes peeled for lions!

Learn a little about the likely finds and you can add a valuable second income to your usual treasure hunting activities. As well as keeping their eyes peeled for surface coins and jewellery, beachcombers also look for non-metal items on their foreshore hunting grounds.

Keep your eyes peeled for bandits, there might be a few up tonight.

nevyjít ze cviku

Leonard was a very close observer, and collector, of this scene ; always keeping his hand in with his guitar, writing much of his early poetry to the sound of its music.

I chose that because I thought I would still be able to keep my hand in by writing the staff newspaper.

Having been trained in Institutional Management I still like to keep my hand in by catering for private functions such as weddings and christenings.

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neztratit hlavu, zachovat klid

I learned from that game. If you keep your head and play it cool, you'll be fine.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs.

držet se nad vodou

The conference centre, in common with most of the others, will need a public subsidy to keep its head above water.

It hurt badly at first to lose my job but things have worked out reasonably well. I am keeping my head above water and that makes me one of the lucky ones.

As long as I earn enough to keep my head above water and to pay my way in life for the next twelve months, keep my family fed and watered, I'm OK.

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sekat dobrotu, vyhýbat se problémům

Understand me, Mr Millet? What I know of Moscow is that you keep your nose clean and do the work you’ve set out to achieve, and that way there’s no hassle. I’ll tell you this.

Life was a deadly game in which you had to keep your cards close to your chest and your back to the wall, your eyes open and your nose clean in order not to end up in the gutter with your hat in your hand.

But our Jack hadn’t kept his nose clean, being the sort of bloke who was born with somebody else’s silver spoon in his fist if not his mouth.

zapojit do práce, zapřáhnout

This is his sort of course because he’s a grinder, who succeeded Faldo as champion. Now is the time for the golfer from Welwyn Garden City to put his nose to the grindstone once more. And he could again seal victory at the 11th.

We’ll do it again some time. Don’t bank on it, Luke interposed, before Merrill could speak. I intend to keep your nose to the grindstone, Rob. As a potential breadwinner, you’d better start concentrating on your career.

Oh, I know he’s a bit single-minded about Woodline; He keeps his nose to the grindstone and thinks everyone else should. But that’s probably because the firm was in a hell of a mess when he took over. Our father was a good designer, but he had no business sense.

Jen klid!

She gave Bunty a very sharp look. You'll miss your entrance, miss. Keep your hair on.

All right, all right, keep your hair on! It was quite a relief to hear Felicity lapse into the phraseology of Pinehurst days.

I won't tell him anything. Keep your hair on, girl, Nick said.

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nepouštět si někoho k tělu

In reality, the relationship was a strained and sometimes comical mismatch, a 50‑year‑long saga of crossed purposes - with Yeats doing all the suffering and Maud forever striving to keep him at arm’s length.

Sliding into the warmth he had just left, inhaling the scent of him on the pillows, surrounded by his clothes, books and possessions, she could feel her resolve to keep him at arm’s length ebbing relentlessly away.

Mr. Smith’s notes to Cumber v. Wane, is not (as I conceive) that sort of benefit which a creditor may derive from getting payment of part of the money due to him from a debtor who might otherwise keep him at arm’s length, or possibly become insolvent, but is some independent benefit.

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přešlapovat, nečinně a netrpělivě čekat

On the one hand I suspected a trap, but on the other the man was patently honest. I sat in the pie shop kicking my heels and pondering the problem.

And while Clough misses out again, it is understood that Blanc has a contract that will take him to French drama club Marseille in the summer. Clough has been left kicking his heels in his search to replace England defender Des Walker, who left on a £1.5 million cut-price deal to Italian giants Sampdoria in the summer.

While he had been kicking his heels yesterday he had spent an hour in a tiny bookshop in Curzon Street and had come away with a paperback edition of the Parsons Rosenberg and the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes’s anthology.

po kolena (hluboký)

At least, as much of a rest as you can get standing in knee-deep water unable to put down your rucksac.

I found myself on one of the many little islands standing knee-deep in the sea.

Off the prows, the first man to jump knee-deep into the water clutching a mooring-rope met three feet of good German steel.

skončit s něčím, zastavit co, hodit pod stůl

If it gets any worse, I’ll knock it on the head. The time has come for me to get it sorted out

I told the others, we either write some new songs and start behaving like a proper band again or knock it on the head, this time for good'.

He'll need daily blood tests, and we’ll have to watch for any respiratory or renal involvement. But I 'm pretty sure we’ll be able to knock it on the head.

znát někoho/ něco jako své boty

You should learn your river and your places like the back of your hand, a senior officer said. I mean I used to. I could have at one stage recited to you every discharge from the estuary upstream for fifty miles on the north bank of the river, in order.

You must know the moor like the back of your hand. I know it pretty well.

Mapping seems to be rather neglected by many people but I reckon that it is vital if you are to get to know a water like the back of your hand. Cameras and notebooks eliminate the need for a Mastermind memory and confer the vital ingredient of confidence which is so necessary for a concerted attempt at big fish.

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umět/naučit se něco nazpaměť

But he had written his book - the people in Glasgow and Paisley knew it by heart, nearly -- now it was up to themselves.

I once knew by heart a poem by the Russian, Fyodor Tyuchev entitled Vyesna (Spring). It began: Already in the fields.................

As presentation day grew closer with Mark racing against time to complete the plan and finalise the slide illustrations, so Klepner read and re-read it until he had almost learnt it off by heart.

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mít štěstí, dobře dopadnout

After some ups and downs, young Mr Davison has landed on his feet.

I had just left training school and really thought I had landed on my feet. It was my first job and I thought it would be great.

Jammy always seems to land on his feet when it involves getting in free to Everton.

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řvát na celé kolo

So much for experience. Tony races past, laughing his head off. Give us a lift, you miserable bastard.

I haven’t seen him since they took him away, screaming his head off, with Jonathan Johns telling everybody gathered round that it was all my fault, blooming unfair because I can’t help it if Pitt has the kind of bones that break easily, can I?

He was screaming his head off about the war and the Russians. He was all for sending Gladstone over to the bloody Russians.

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mít koho omotaného kolem prstu

We should take it easy and not be led by the nose by the Commission or by the Council of Foreign Ministers.

Old Wolsey loved to lead people by the nose, in particular his nephew and myself, and relished his little games of sending us unarmed into darkened chambers full of assassins.

If for all this, the General Staff still performs the lion’s share of staff work, this is hardly evidence that the military lead the Party by the nose in defence matters, either over details or essentials.

They are prone to the herd instinct, and politicians can easily lead them by the nose.

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moci se přetrhnout (horlivostí)

As a family, they had everything - materially, anyway - and their father bent over backwards pleasing them, assuring them he loved them all.

For us to retain that work we are gonna have to bend over backwards to do what Regional Railways want.

The whole incident was a very sore point with my crew, who had worked very hard for long hours on this one, and it was a classic illustration of how our laws often seem to lean over backwards to protect the lawbreakers.

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odejít a nelitovat toho

She rang a bell to be let out again and left him without a backward glance.

Feeling a little like I imagined a tomb-robber might feel, but knowing that my motives were of the very best, I relocked both doors and left without a backward glance.

She was ready to go. Picking up her bags, she dropped an envelope with her rent on the dresser and left without a backward glance. She hadn't enjoyed her stay here, and she had no intention of ever coming back.

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naslouchat, dopřát sluchu komu

Welcome Endill and take a seat, And please be kind enough not to eat. English is the lesson here, So open your book and lend an ear.

Take a look at the audio book Or maybe lend an ear.

But he still cannot resist listening to ideas. He says: I would always lend an ear to somebody and if I was able to help I would.

pomoci komu, podat pomocnou ruku komu

Well I knew someone in and I thought to myself I, perhaps he might lend me a hand?

He was sophisticated, speaking at least three languages, enough to get him out of trouble in most countries, and with a select if scattered network of friends and colleagues all across the Middle East , to lend him a hand if required.

If it’s a problem, Charlie was saying, get the kid to lend you a hand.

nechat proklouznout mezi prsty

This really is committee work but I, it does occur to me that mention it that erm, if in our advertising we point out that we have a car park attendant and if that car park attendant were to let one slip through his fingers, we may well then be liable to be sued by the person.

Walker placed the header, but Salmon wasn’t going to let the match slip through his fingers.

Dave Cottrell let the prestigious Tillman Trophy slip through his fingers when he shot an 82 in the final round of the 72 hole open scratch event at Royal Liverpool last weekend.

balzám na rty

I use lipsalve for my lips but it doesn't seem to work.

Lipsalve is basically a wax which is okay to stop moisture loss but, for intensive healing, moisturiser and Vaseline are best.

Now she rubs moisturizer into her facial skin as protection against the raw wintry air outside, coats her lips with lipsalve, and brushes some green eyeshadow on her eyelids.

rtěnka

At long last you can possess an lipstick that never fades - due to certain capsules that release colour every time you press your lips together.

My lips are often chapped and sore, which makes it difficult to apply lipstick as it won't stay on and looks unpleasant.

If you use a greasy lip block under your lipstick, the lipstick will just slide off.

postarší, už ne nejmladší

The consolation factor if you do end up with something distinctly long in the tooth is that it should give you the gratification of feeling that you have aged rather better yourself.

The country is still run by the old boy network. Most of the old boys are now Conservative placemen, long in the tooth and addled in the brain.

Madame Clicquot is a little long in the tooth now she took over the business when her husband died in 1805 but she still attends all the best events.

ohrnovat nos nad kým, dívat se svrchu na koho

But no American politician, especially a wealthy one, is going to last two minutes if he’s caught looking down his nose at folk the way the French do. It’s the ordinary folks at home who vote you into office, remember - and out of it.

You are too old, she said. And in any case we are related. Only in the second degree, Jehan said cheerfully. She looked down her nose at him. Maybe I shall consider you, she said. But it isn’t interesting to be courted by someone you know.

And I can’t see any reason why they can’t. Why they should, people with a higher look down their nose at the people who are lower than themselves, I can not figure out.

podívat se komu do očí (nebojácně)

Stealing, cheating and lying become the only way to pay. It’s always on your mind You can’t look your family in the eye. Your friends begin to wonder what is wrong. You begin to hate yourself for what you’re doing.

Mr. Mandela, for his part, according to Mr. Ramaphosa, had a unique greatness, a magnetism which he felt in his presence on Tuesday before he had even looked him in the eye.

Look, could you grab hold of this box before my arms drop off? She took hold of it and put it down on the floor. Then she looked me in the eye and smiled. You seem to think you know what you’re doing, she said.

klesat na mysli

On 13 November Colonel Durand learned from Wade that he was not coming to the relief of Carlisle since the roads through Yorkshire were inadequate for his artillery. The militia lost heart at this news; they had already been on duty for a month, and had been treated with extraordinary meanness.

This is great news for the new generation of women writers, but for some it is already too late. They have lost heart, stashed away their manuscripts and told themselves they were never really writers anyway.

ztratit hlavu

I’m not going to lose my head and try and rush out at the first chance.

He smiled, stroking her cheek. But if you’re afraid I’ll lose my head once we’re alone together, by all means bring a chaperon.

They said he’d lost his head and started shooting

ztratit hlavu, zpanikařit

If you promise not to tell anyone, Margaret said, when she finally got to see a doctor, I nearly had it done the old way, you know, with a knitting needle, then I lost my nerve.

In the middle of my glacier I lost my nerve. Real and imagined depths were lurking under the probing axe, and twice I broke through a crust with boot and ferrule. I knew I was courting disaster without a rope.

She tried to pull herself together, but it was impossible. Her voice trembled. Suddenly I’ve lost my nerve. Dawn’s dog dying, now this Labrador who means so much to a handicapped child.

For a sickening moment he swung wildly on the rope and one of his feet slipped a few inches down the wall. Grant’s heart leapt into his mouth and he was convinced Larsen was going to lose his nerve, then his grip on the rope, to plummet down to an unthinkable death.

železná ruka

Such optimism may still prove to be justified: but the bets are much riskier, now that China ’s leadership has shown its continued reliance on the mailed fist and its continued vulnerability to factional disputes.

Rather than overload the suit’s resources, he relaxed. The power axe, clenched in his mailed fist, still hewed away at the same small area in front of him, but for the life of him he couldn’t push himself into the space it liquefied, nor could he shift the weapon to left or to right.

I bear the same arms now but the middle finger of the mailed fist is no longer extended since the Queen’s herald, Rouge Croix, discovered that in certain parts of France such a gesture could be taken as offensive or obscene.

upřímně přiznat

Besides, Mr. Aichi made a clean breast of it, and he returned the money to Recruit.

She preceded him out of the lift very much aware that, no matter how conscience and love might insist that she make a clean breast of everything, to confess was something she simply could not do.

A week later, they decided to make a clean breast to the police. Instead of being saluted for their honesty, they were prosecuted.

(BNC-B)

zničit

He made an equally fine job of the creatures, large and small that run around on the land; He even gave us the best crags in the world. So why did he make such a pig’s ear of the climate?

Helping him hire an assassin isn’t what I had in mind. Chant was very discreet. Death makes you that way, I find you really have made a pig’s ear of the whole thing.

She hoped, for the sake of appearance at the wedding, that the children’s clothes would be properly cut and fitted, she also hoped that between them Cynthia and her dressmaker would have made a pig’s ear of the business.

zpackat, udělat nešikovně co

There are far too many organisations trying to save hunting. They are making a thoroughly poor fist of it, and many people have virtually given up.

Off on business with a milliner from Spalding leaving a list of jobs as long as his arm and a warning against making a poor fist of it.

Derbyshire made a poor fist of making 291 for victory. The early-order batsmen left Cork with an awful lot to do and, even in his week of glory, the task proved beyond him.

dělat oči, házet očkem na koho

And when the vet came to take out Little Chef’s stitches, it was Ricky who held the wildly trembling dog in his arms. Any visiting player who was foolish enough to make eyes at Perdita, or disparaging cracks about Little Chef’s appearance, got very short shrift. By the beginning of August Ricky’s arm was so much better that he was able gently to stick and ball.

Can I come too? asked Tristan, playing his part. To make eyes at Miss Adeane? enquired Gemma, playing hers. Oh, absolutely not, my darling. Since it is Miss Ernestine Baker who has my heart.

It was a strange day outside. The wind was moving everything along like a nervous policeman. A drunk and disorderly can clattered on a grating. Torn Sunday colour supplements made eyes at her from the railings.

rozhodnout se

Hello, Sergeant. I am just trying to make up my mind whether to stay overnight with my cousin Katy McKay or walk to Achnacarry. Well, Piper, if you can not make up your mind, you are welcome to spend the night at the Police Station.

I still can't make up my mind what exactly to do about trying to get a university place or something like it, and I would feel better, I think, if we could talk about what you said when I visited you.

They hadn't come in yet so I started getting some food ready and tried to make up my mind what to tell Rick.

(BNC-B)

je to složitější, než se zdá, než to vypadá

There is no doubt that attentive, active listening is hard work (we will be thinking about this in the next chapter) but how much one learns through it! Certainly more than meets the eye. Have you noticed that you are becoming increasingly aware of people and of the message they are conveying?

But did you know Miele also make kitchens? The same principles of design, quality and attention to detail ensure that Miele kitchens offer much more than meets the eye.

And before the letters flood in from feminists, neither is this meant as a slur on womankind. Research confirms, however, that in the case of Caribbean cricket folklore there is more than meets the eye. West Indian parents have brought a touch of ingenuity to their adversity. Cricket represented a better life for their children.

svalovec

My friend Kevin, muscleman and minicab driver, says the lads would be out rioting for Willy now if it wasn’t tipping down with rain the whole time.

Sylvester Stallone, 46, says he is flattered that a spoof of his Rambo films is being made. Charlie Sheen, who will play a dim-witted muscleman in the film, Hot Shots 2, said: I’d be flattered if a spoof was made of one of my movies.

MUSCLEMAN Arnold Schwarzenegger has secretly fought crippling pain with acupuncture and herbal medicine. Years of pumping iron have taken their toll on the 45-year-old’s body.

Dám si pusu na zámek.

I can see what you mean, well, don't worry, my lips are sealed!

This was a very personal thing between Caduta and me. I'm saying nothing. My lips are sealed.

vypátrat, přesně zjistit

John Wrench does much to nail down the specific ways in which employment opportunities are much narrower for the black kid seeking apprenticeships in industry.

There is an aimless air of insubordination ready with spurious justification and impossible to nail down.

Any attempt to nail down individuals with the aid of rules and collective values seems doomed to vague and complex generalities.

In turn, these two characteristics permit hierarchy to meet four of any organization’s fundamental needs: to add real value to work as it moves through the organization, to identify and nail down accountability at each stage of the value-adding process.

přitlouci, připevnit

He found it necessary to nail up his bed-room windows with many plies of blanket, and thus to allow day and night to glide unnoted past, for all was dark.

The windows which had been nailed up as an anti-escape measure were thick with steam, and water was pouring down the panes.

Hell was a wooden arch with a cloth tunnel behind it and a simple catch holding shut the green eye. It smoked because there was a length of tarry rope nailed up behind the gullet which Lucie set alight before going on stage.

jeden za druhým, těsně za sebou

If you are just beginning to ride, I would strongly recommend at least half a dozen lessons on the lunge before you join the crocodile of horses marching nose to tail around a school.

They were proceeding north on the A5 when Mr Woodward’s attention was suddenly drawn to what he first thought were three buses stood nose to tail.

That said, those winter mornings found our Russian cars nose to tail in true Politburo style, and us half asleep, boxed in their cabins, yawning like a pair of pre‑packed orchids.

A closed van was coming fast from the other direction, and the Montego was nose to tail with the car in front of it. He kicked down the accelerator - he was in automatic - and against all his better instincts overtook a Vauxhall and slewed.

nezkřivit ani vlas, ani se nedotknout

You needn’t worry any more, because you arouse nothing in me and haven’t done for many a year. I wouldn’t want to lay a finger on you.

She was not deterred. Crew indeed! He wouldn’t dare lay a finger on any of us.

My dad always brought me up saying you never lay a finger on a woman, never ever.

She turned, eyes flashing. I detest you. Don’t you ever lay a finger on me again, or, so help me, I’ll see you live to regret it!

nehnout ani prstem

But Mum didn’t lift a finger to help and gave as good as she got.

But once the women returned, the men weren’t prepared to lift a finger to help.

She didn’t need to work; she didn’t in fact even have to lift a finger because the man or her servants would do all this for her. (BNC-B)

ani nemrknout

The pictures shook and one fell, just missing Frankie’s head, but he didn’t bat an eyelid and just kept on reading his comic.

Duchamp did not bat an eyelid at the destruction of his Large Glass.

nevěřit svým uším

Paul says: I was listening to the Chancellor and couldn't believe my ears for a moment when he announced the exemption.

He jumped off his cart which was nearby and ran after the runaway. He soon had it back with Granny's belongings intact, and I could hardly believe my ears and eyes when I heard her thank him and allow him to lift her back onto the driver's seat.

nezvednout ani malíček, nehnout prstem

But it was mostly the other thing, that he’d had to sweat all his life and she’d never done a hand’s turn. She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry.

Useless, she had jeered, like all spoiled rich girls. Never done a hand’s turn in her life, and wouldn’t know how!

That would be wicked! I mean, she’s never done a hand’s turn for her father or her grandfather.

nehnout ani brvou

Some said his wife didn't turn a hair any more when Sammy was carried in like a drowned rat.

I moved corpses minus their heads, legs and arms, and didn't turn a hair. But when you lift a corpse that looks anything but a corpse, it's terrifying.

So Herbie didn't try and jump in the car before I could lift him and trying to get Audrey in with her stiff leg. And then get the rug across her. She didn't turn a hair when she said two hundred and ninety three pounds.

(BNC-B)

bez přípravy, bez rozmyšlení

And he proceeded to do so, off the top of his head at considerable length, to the admiration of all present.

I attach a proposal drafted somewhat off the top of my head, which you may like to use to open discussions with the Navarra Ministry.

I decided, off the top of my head, to start playing a song that I had started writing earlier in the week. And so I just started playing it and the other guys started improvising.

(BNC-B)

po ruce, k dispozici

That packet of cherries was the only decoration I had on hand. I haven’t been doing much baking lately.

Events are being organised at venues throughout London and the south-east aimed at beginners of all ages and levels of fitness. Members of orienteering clubs in the region will be on hand to help you get started.

They’ll also be on hand to arrange car hire, and give any other advice you need.

na první pohled

On the face of it, the Friend 3 seems the model least likely to benefit from flexibility - the thick stem interferes little with the working of the cams, both designs have the same strength rating

She spent her time shopping, reading women’s magazines, listening to pop music and watching television. On the face of it, she and Prince Charles had very little in common when they re-met in 1979. Quite apart from the intellectual and educational differences, they did not even share the same hobbies.

The significance of these comparatively simple provisions on open enrolment should not be overlooked. On the face of it they may appear to do little more than give effect to the government’s consistent promise to maximize the opportunities for parental choice in the education system.

(BNC-B)

najednou

By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80. Not paying on the nail could be extremely expensive.

I’m really glad that Jeff Beck and Joe Satriani found the Nigel Tufnel article so brilliant; I bet they paid their £1.80 on the nail when they got the magazine.

I was perhaps the only one who knew he was doing it for Duke. He brought the dog in every two or three days and paid on the nail.

na jazyku

Gray is talking in his trademark way (as if he's just remembered a name that's been on the tip of his tongue for months) about his debut novel Lanark.

The words and phrases they need for meetings, negotiating, and presentations will no longer be on the tip of their tongues but at their fingertips.

I don't mean Carole Lombard, do I?, said Jannie. No, no. The name's on the tip of my tongue.

(BNC-B)

musí škytat – hodně se o něm mluví

Court, neither of them known as clumsy organisers? The Break of Day is running at the Royal Court on its own, except for two Three Sisters matinees on January 6 and 13. A missed opportunity: I hope ears are burning in Sloane Square .

I hope even more ears are burning in North Wales at the board of the Theatr Clwyd in Mold which did not renew the contract of its artistic director, Helena Kaut - Howson.

My mother’s ears are burning and she squirms in her seat. I begin to pronounce the sequence of words and numbers that will prevent her from giving him a piece of her mind.

(BNC-B)

svěřit se

Because this is what he always felt after his father died - that if he could just speak to him now, he could really open his heart and say everything, without feeling that strange mute on his vocal chords.

He speculated whether he should speak to the friar, open his heart, tell him his secrets, get rid of the sea of misery he felt bathing his body, drowning his mind.

For her part, she felt that he was someone to whom she could open her heart and who would understand.

(BNC-B)

otevřít oči

It is through patient persuasive reasoning together with voluntary suffering that they must seek to melt the heart of his opponent and open his eyes to the truth.

Daughter of the Queen Igrayne and half-sister to King Arthur, she revealed to him the intrigue between Lancelot and Guinevere by giving him a magic draught which opened his eyes to the perfidy.

Oh, you’ve repaid him: you’ve opened his eyes to things that’ve been under his nose, and he couldn’t see the wood for the trees.

letět („ještě jednou to uděláš a poletíš!“)

No, don’t you go writing things down, or you’re out on your ear.

Colonel Fagg, he goes mad if anyone wakes him up. Comes out of his room like a rocket and you’re out on your ear. I’ll be careful, Mr. Ramsbum.

And if you’re a professor, well you have to like studying and you have to like reading and you have to like teaching and all these other things. If you don’t, you’ll soon be out on your ear.

poplácat koho po ramenou

She patted me on the shoulder. Cheer up.

She patted my shoulder. Hey, don’t knock it. This sounds all right, you know.

He recalled his uncles, standing behind them, patting him on the shoulder affectionately.

poskytovat čemu pouze slovní podporu

For all these reasons some economists have for years advocated this approach to monetary policy and during the 1970s a number of governments began at least to pay lip service to it by announcing target rates of growth for the money supply over the coming year.

Crime is a big issue not just an issue of sentencing or the courts, but something that must be looked at away from politics. Politicians pay lip service to crime.

All unions have good policies on racial equality at national level but very little is put into practice at local levels. The picture is no different in Cleveland . Most of the unions pay lip service to equal rights and racial equality for black members.

(BNC-B)

nechat se oškubat

There’s definitely money to be made by running an Outward Bound course. All you have to do is grow a beard and look rugged, take a bunch of gullible kids from good homes, make their parents pay through the nose to let them sleep in bunks and eat beans, and then pretend that mundane things are difficult or unusual.

Classes were no longer in the afternoon and evening, after work. They were work, and the students, who were paying through the nose for them, were grim, resentful and bloody-minded.

The only work I could find was with Clive’s main sharp-end competitor, a school offering short courses to businessmen on company accounts. They paid through the nose for one-to-one intensive tuition from qualified experts supported by sophisticated resources incorporating the latest technology.

Amazingly, though, foreign tycoons pay through the nose to hear Lady Thatcher spout her economic theories - even though, back home, businesses and homeowners are still suffering because of them.

tahat rozumy z koho

Unsurprisingly, it was a subject that frequently cropped up at the dinner table, especially when visitors were present and Sir Gregory was able to pick their brains on the latest news from Rome , Paris or Madrid .

That's one thing Ben said though, which was quite useful, he said get some people down pick their brains.

A prosthetist who had a lower limb amputation himself stated: They [patients] want to pick your brain for every bit of knowledge they can get. They're very interested to find out how you coped.

(BNC-B)

hrát podle sluchu, bez not

I have some sheet music which belonged to my mother... But I can only play by ear these days.

But I have a theory that if you have two musicians, both trained and able to play anything that is put before them, but only one of them has the ability to play by ear as well, then he or she will be able to project more life, beauty and expression than the other.

Montaine and Jean-Claude inherited their love of music from their mother. They sang together, played by ear on the old upright that someone from the big house had thrown out and they had retrieved.

(BNC-B)

improvizovat

Until we can get something definite sorted out, we are having to play it by ear.

Eubank has no special game plan tonight and says: I'll play it by ear and in accordance to Thornton 's fighting spirit.

Some people want to know what their treatment is going to be, but you can tell at the same time they definitely don't want to know the name of their condition. You just have to play it by ear.

(BNC-B)

ukázat prstem na koho, kárat, vinit koho

Trading in Bunzl was fast and furious, volumes topping 6m as the market quote firmed a penny to 94p. Dealers pointed the finger at Credit Lyonnais Laing, which has been chasing the stock for a fortnight and whose paper and packaging expert, Henry Poole, has spotted the company’s recovery potential.

Ego is desperate to deny and avoid responsibility. Whatever goes wrong in our lives, it will point the finger at others - our parents, our boss, our partner or ex-partner, our children, God, fate, the government.

These steps included maligning your dead wife as a criminal drugs dealer. Green had also pointed the finger at his wife’s lover Stuwart Skett.

strkat nos do čeho

He was wrong whatever he did. If he spoke out, he was accused of poking his nose into matters he knew nothing about.

Or maybe they resented a stranger poking his nose into their affairs?

They're hardly going to take very kindly to a woman poking her nose into their affairs, are they?

The sun comes up each morning, the Pope's a Catholic, and Donna Fratelli's still sticking her nose into other people's business.

(BNC-B)

zbystřit pozornost, nastražit uši

Hosanna could see it too, and would prick up his ears as he sat on her lap and focus on Gabriel moving around by the sink or fixing the green curtains at the window.

Your eyes and your ears do not co-ordinate; it is very much like the sensation of a fever. The chimneys are bewildered, the roofs, slippery and uncertain. Dormer windows prick up their ears like terriers.

There was a studied casualness in his tone that made Melissa prick up her ears. We’re next-door neighbours.

No, I’ve got three different letters and one that’s the same as another I was new before I met you Complete the film title, prick up er, oh start again, prick up your ears, bottom or pantyhose?

soukromý detektiv

This was the pilot for the Harry O detective series. Janssen plays a private eye who, while investigating a murder, gets emotionally involved with the prime suspect.

Emilianow is an American private eye who tests the fidelity of potential marriage partners usually men, surprise, surprise by offering them irresistible temptation.

He said the PR man detailed a series of allegations he wished the private eye to investigate. The allegations were that illicit payments had been made by Boeing, or possibly General Electric... to secure the contract.

utahovat si z koho, dělat si legraci z koho

The other children pulled his leg and generally teased him about what he had seen but the child strenuously defended his story.

She was pulling his leg. She always gave as much as she got, more, he should say. And so of course they started pulling his leg then see? And he said he said no, are you gonna watch Cardiff City lose again.

There is no letter for you, Billy, she says, handing them back and shutting her eyes. I think she’s pulling my leg, so I ask her again. There’s nothing, she says. I want her to check through them again.

nedat nic najevo, předstírat klid

But the company and its advisers put a brave face on the outcome yesterday.

The Government tried to put a brave face on the mess. A Downing Street spokesman said: We don't use words like crisis.

navádět koho

Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years, but she bit back her words, fearing that the suggestion, were she to make it, might put the idea into his head. Let it suffice for the present that he thought he’d been silly to nurture romantic thoughts about his first love.

She was a witch, then, because he had never before in his life done such a thing with a girl in the street. She must have put the idea into his head herself: pinned it onto the back of his mind, like one of her flaming hairpieces.

That’s Dora all over, interrupted Rose with a sniff. Once she gets an idea into her head, wild horses won’t shift it.

(BNC-B)

poukázat na co, definovat co, určit co

What adds to my confusion is that I can’t put my finger on any obvious reason why the Wallaby train seems to have derailed.

It’s difficult to put my finger on exactly why my response is somewhat cool.

I was sorry to see Rocky go and I would like him back. I can’t put my finger on what’s gone wrong. (BNC-B)

šlápnout na to

I'll tell him about that later. I should have just put my foot down and knocked him over.

I wasn't getting any respect, any money; I couldn't even get hold of Richard when I wanted to, so I decided to put my foot down and straighten things out

dát do toho všechno, celé své srdce

It is very difficult, he said. You are imploring your team to put heart and soul into it, so it’s unrealistic not to expect some minor scare, however unattractive it might be.

It makes you feel weird about meaning what you do. You may put your heart and soul into something, but it doesn't matter because those people can't hear it.

He looked impatiently at Woolley, but Woolley was putting his heart and soul into the music.

(BNC-B)

urazit koho, dotknout se koho, vyvést z míry koho

It appears that the nose of the lady correspondent of Handelsblatt in London was put badly out of joint when Bock refused her an interview on the grounds that it would be bad form prior to Lonrho’s results.

We need to tread carefully and emphasise that the idea is far from advanced in case a nose or two gets put out of joint. University sport is as steeped in political intrigue as any other human activity when two or more people happen to congregate.

THE ability of Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) to put noses out of joint in the City has not dimmed, despite its L860m plan to take over SGWarburg, the investment bank.

He has behaved with charm and modesty and he even had the good grace to lose to Mark Petchey, a Brit with his nose put out of joint by Rusedski’s sudden arrival.

uklidnit koho

He was terrified that she might drop it in the corridor, and so, to put his mind at rest, she told him she was only three months on, whereas in fact she was six, but carried her offspring high, so that it didn't show too much.

Don't be bashful about telling folk how you feel for a loved one's advice and experience will soon put your mind at rest. It's business as normal Sunday.

Well, at least now you can put your mind at rest and leave the rest to us. Sister will be in shortly to get you ready.

(BNC-B)

zvednout obočí

He leaned back in his ample chair, the back of which rose up behind him, framing him like a mandorla. He did no more than raise an eyebrow.

They'd arranged it months ago. Francis had raised an eyebrow at her enthusiasm.

I myself have five children and in England this raises an eyebrow, but in Kenya I was often asked would I be having another soon.

(BNC-B)

pozvednout p ěst (proti komu)

Julie spun the weapon, bringing the clawed part down on his hand as he raised his fists in defence.

Several rough-looking men were raising their fists and shouting at Farmer Yatton, Angela’s father, who was ordering them out. Cheryl turned rather pale. The gypsies looked so threatening.

A more marginal case is where the defendant is seen to be raising his fists in anticipation of the fight.

vnucovat, vtloukat komu co do hlavy

I'm quite capable of making up my own mind on subjects like vegetarianism. I don't want it ramming down my throat.

That was the only time I had known real fear. Like most of my generation, I had never known a war, had never had fear rammed down my throat time and time again like the older generation.

You'd really like to know all about it, eh? Before I tear your heart out of your chest and ram it down your throat, yes.

(BNC-B)

vrátit zpátky na zem koho

Dane O'Hara probably still wakes up at night and sees Ferguson oscillating in front of him. The Hull man appeared to have the angles covered when Ferguson rocked back on his heels to accept Ian Potter’s pass, but despite a standing start and only inches in which to operate, Fergie whisked past on the outside.

Or perhaps he was waiting for them to start counting their blessings there and then. He rocked back on his heels and steadied himself.

But you should always remember one thing. It’s people that you’re dealing with. People. He thrust both hands in his pockets and rocked back on his heels. I’m sixty-nine and I’m still working.

předhazovat komu co

The politically correct will blanch, but this is of course only the author’s way of rubbing a bigoted society’s nose in its sins, he explained.

The most insecure are always the most selfish. It was bad enough to do it, but to rub his wife’s nose in his mess was, in the end, unforgivable. He is the kind of man who loves women, who puts them on a pedestal, who is in awe of them.

They understood that it was important to praise Elizabeth and the baby, whatever their own turmoil. When a nurse brought the new baby back, my cousin took her child in her arms and rubbed her nose in the yellow down on top of its small head. Soon she was choosing a name and kissing its tiny fingers and toes.

vládnout železnou rukou, tvrdou rukou

My father ruled us with an iron fist and he hit us with an iron fist too, Joe recalls. But he loved us and he worked himself to death for us.

The DDI reminded them all of the secret police who had ruled East Germany with an iron fist.

Next Thursday Chileans will go to the polls to elect a successor to General Pinochet, who has ruled with an iron fist since the overthrow of Allende in 1973.

přelétnout očima co

As usual we had breakfast in the conservatory. I cast my eye over the front page of the Telegraph while Anne poured the coffee.

A note from Mellowes instructed me to cast my eye over the draft, pronto, for inaccuracies.

I would be most grateful if you could cast your eye over the script.   (BNC-B)

rozumět si s kým

He said he could not serve on that sub-committee if I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject.

They have many differences. Fernand was employed by the previous owner and does not always see eye to eye with Alain on the way the estate should be managed.

The portly Breton was standing in the town in yesterday's parliamentary elections but it would appear that he does not see eye to eye with local activists. (BNC-B)

sledovat

Then he climbed into the Land Rover beside his two passengers and drove off fast, with the aim of abandoning Jamie to the custody of his aunt as quickly as possible. He could see with half an eye that the kid’s aunt was going to be one of the confident, bossy, well-connected women.

I don’t think anyone but me was taking notes at this stage of the proceedings. Of course Madame keeping an eye on O was nothing new. She always had half an eye for him; sometimes I thought she watched him as a tamer does a tiger.

So when the class reassembled, Matilda went to her desk and began to study a text-book on geometry which Miss Honey had given her. The teacher kept half an eye on her all the time and noticed that the child very soon became deeply absorbed in the book.

zarputile odmítat co, postavit si hlavu, být proti čemu

He has abandoned much of his Marxist baggage and, so far, set his face against the creation of a formal one-party state.

Jones’s successor was Moss Evans, a Welshman who had worked in the car industry as TGWU National Organizer. He was a man with a limited grasp of wider economic or political implications who had set his face against wage restrictions, or even any notion of a social contract.

China has also failed to adopt what would be the normal tactic of a Western organisation trying to challenge dominant suppliers. It has set its face against cutting prices.

uchopit co, vzít co do ruky, začít co

She didn’t know if he wanted a wife and children, but she knew that, having set his hand to any task, he would carry it through to the end.

We wanted to make it simpler for people to understand. We wanted to make it easier for people to get the money to which they were entitled, and I set my hand to introducing the reforms in a way that would enable people to do so.

Theodora was torn between curiosity and irritation. She wanted a holiday. She wanted a rest from the likes of Amy. On the other hand she had set her hand to the plough.

zatoužit po čem

So if you have got your heart set on a big wedding for the kids or a fast car when you retire, it is worth putting some money away.

Now there was once a Queen, who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world, but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveler had told of, which lived in the snowy mountains.

vyvolat spor, udělat rozruch

I’ve never had much to do with village life, but I believe one has to be very careful, she explained; and we don’t want to set the place by the ears the moment we’ve arrived. We There’s the front-door bell.

Serbia may some day set Europe by the ears and bring about a universal conflict on the continent. I cannot tell you how exasperated people are getting here at the continual worry that little country causes Austria under encouragement from Russia

But the last great de Chavigny collections had been designed by Vlaçek in the late 1920s. Edouard longed for a new collection, for revolutionary designs that would set competitors like Cartier by the ears; designs that would reflect the post-war world and which would use to the full the latest technology.

spatřit, uvidět, navštívit

Slowly but surely, Sussex are also assembling the requisite ingredients. Peter Moores impresses more with bat and gloves every time I clap eyes on him.

Westminster . Chief Justice Fortescue believes that we have spent enough public money and time in the pursuit of what he calls will-o'-the-wisps. He wants us to account for our stewardship. But before I clap eyes on his miserable face, I intend to down as many cups of sack as I can!

pohnout kostrou

The business of the audition is squeezed into all this in less time than it takes to shake a leg.

Evenings full of wine rich in body, and food that just can’t be ignored, inevitably drift into conversations that solve the world’s problems, and tomorrow the sun will shine again and it’s time to shake a leg and enjoy another day. If any holiday could be a tonic for both mind and body, a few days in the clean air and clear conscience of Saalbach-Hinterglemm has to be it.

Dinner time, said Pete. Tastes like shit but it fills you up. If you don’t want any of yours, you give it to me. Come on, shake a leg, old son.

hrozit p ěstmi

He ran about the library shouting and shaking his fists at the shelves and the Headmaster had to send for Matron to calm him down.

Stand and the scene around us was indescribable as the staid more English than the English burghers of Adelaide and their wives stood up booing and shaking their fists. It was said that armed mounted troopers were grouped outside the oval to quell a possible riot.

People came out of the theatre and were shaking their fists at us, said Ken. One woman went up to Codron and Peter Wood and said just one short crisp sentence.

zamilované oči

Sheep’s eyes are not the eyes of one particular sheep but a kind of glance or look; a busman’s holiday is a holiday spent doing one’s normal paid work.

It has always had about the same amount of appeal to me as sheep’s eyes. As a confirmed haggis lover, that just proves how irrational we humans can be!

Oglers cast sheep’s eyes. Oh, how I love you.

výška po ramena

Stand upright with the arms bent and the dumb-bells at shoulder height. Slowly press vertically until the arms are straight.

Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height, knuckles upward, elbows at your sides.

When dropping arms, continue movement to extend arm sideways to shoulder height. Swing down and forward rhythmically to shoulder height; and repeat leg exercises.

vypařit se, prásknout do bot

Only one point stands irrespective of the period taken: Japan has shown all the other rich countries a clean pair of heels. Since 1950 America and Britain have been the slowest.

I won both the 60 and 200 metres, but it was in the final event, the relay, that I received my greatest fillip. Over the first three legs the French had shown us a clean pair of heels, especially with superior baton-passing. When I took over, Bruno Marie-Rose, the indoor world-record holder, was already away.

Magnificent though Rasari was, you were left wondering just how much they needed him when newcomer Ratu Sakeasi showed Tim Horan and Jason Little a clean pair of heels in a 60-metre chase for the line.

ukázat se, objevit se

And I thought I’m not going to be able to show my face, now I can. But I can’t I find it hard to explain why the after such a good performance against West Ham. But you know, it’s just all over.

I’ve been walking up and down Fleet Street, if you want to know, he said, to see whether I could still show my face in public.

I think if I can show my face at these meetings it might er I mean I think whether or not it’s because of the increase in burglaries or whether it’s because of the publicity via David.

vyložit karty na stůl

That could be remedied, he could acquire a transcript of the proceedings or simply a copy of the pathologist’s findings, but he did not dare, he was not prepared to show his hand to that extent. Instead he tried to guess what might have been said. He put himself into the pathologist’s shoes and stood in the witness box.

But if Gloucester chose to act against Hastings , rather than being stampeded into it by his discovery of a conspiracy, why did he choose to show his hand before his troops reached London and before he had control of the other possible claimants to the throne?

The Minister has told us today that he does not want to let us know what his proposals will be when he goes into negotiations. No poker player will sit with a man at his back or show his hand, but nor will a poker player have a cocky attitude to the game.

zavřít pusu, sklapnout

This woman really wound me up. She kept talking over me so I told her to shut her face and cut her off.

But when yesterday’s caller refused to listen to Snelly’s explanation he exploded and said: You don’t even listen to my show. You don’t know what I said, so why don’t you just shut your face. As the woman continued to speak over him he said: Oh just shut up and hung up.

Please leave your name and number, and the postal area code and I couldn’t figure out what they meant, your post code, or what, anyway, I sort, I left this long pause, shut my face I left this really long pause.

dělat až do roztrhání těla

People like me, who've worked their guts out to expand the business while the militant bastards have been working their guts out to destroy it.

So someone would come and clean his car and he'd give it to them, yet you would work your guts out for a fairly modest salary.

Trainer Michael O'Leary was also hopping mad. He said: I worked my guts out to get King Taros right to win the race and look what happened. It's a disgrace.

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má srdce na pravém místě

Neil's heart is in the right place. He wants to look after his people.

Does Friend agree that that would provide low-cost homes, a welcome boost to the housing market and reduce housing benefits? Mr. Friend's heart is in the right place, but I do not believe that his precise proposal would have the effect that he has in mind.

ztrácet naději

I love eating in restaurants, but unfortunately all over France they are now mostly patronised by French and British tourists. Like all British tourists, my heart sinks when I go into a restaurant and hear British voices.

I'm a close personal friend of the Internet, but even so my heart sinks whenever I hear an editor tell me how the Net will bail him out.

sbíhají se mi sliny na

The many mouth-watering desserts of Touraine are based on fruits.

Some ingredients result in a delicious, mouth-watering soup, while others will produce foul-smelling, unpalatable dishwater.

Linda Fraser prepares five mouth-watering meals for the family, using that perennial favorite - mince Spinach lasagne.

dát někomu ránu pod pás

It was David Knell, one of my colleagues. I've been stabbed in the back. Everyone stopped laughing and looked at me. What do you mean?

And the association of republicanism and parliamentarianism with defeat all fostered the belief that Germany had been stabbed in the back. Hitler exploited this resentment with great success. The fragile democratic institutions of Weimar were not able to survive the sense of defeat, the recession and Hitler's onslaught.

It is useless trying to co-operate with people who can not keep their word or have any intention of keeping it. Nationalists supported the Wilson/Callaghan governments for years, only to be stabbed in the back in the end. They were then blamed for allowing a Thatcher victory, when Labour's downfall hinged on a refusal to implement its own policies.

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stát na vlastních nohou

Nelly has fought to stand on her own two feet as a businesswoman – wife.

The story of the boy and his daddy, a dancer determined to help his son stand on his own two feet, is symbolically crass and excruciatingly sentimental.

Crawford is a woman who has always stood on her own two feet , and is highly unlikely to get down on her knees to a man ...

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stát bok po boku

We knew that the man who had been attacked was there, and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst, we saw them in the centre of the mirror, saw ourselves standing beside them.

Bereavement is the one battle in which people dice with a death that has already occurred in order to survive all the dangers of the loss and deprivation it brings, and it takes courage to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone who is in the thick of it.

And when home skipper Kepler Wessels, an Afrikaaner, completed a commanding century, blacks and whites stood shoulder to shoulder in the stands to applaud. (BNC-B)

být proti mysli komu

When it affects life-and-death issues, such as Northern Ireland , the idea of making legislation on internment, for example, subject to back-room bargains struck at Westminster , is one which would stick in the throats of many voters.

Geoff Allen, who has served Northampton as player and official for 30 years, said: What does stick in the throat is that Shelford, who has made our leading players better players, will probably have to sit on his backside while apparently some other overseas players can come and go as they please.

The loyalist paramilitary leadership at least progressed far enough to be able last year to express abject and true remorse, yet such words stick in the throat of Sinn Fein and the IRA.

být jako pěst na oko, vyčnívat, být výrazný

How extraordinary and incongruous! You stick out like a sore thumb in that ghastly uniform, Charles.

It was a white box with modern doors, modern units and a Rayburn that stuck out of the wall like a sore thumb. It had pink quarry tiles.

protáhnout si kostru, projít se

And even when I had assured myself I was on the right road, I felt compelled to stop the car a moment to take stock, as it were, I decided to step out and stretch my legs a little and when I did so, I received a stronger impression than ever of being perched on the side of a hill.

However hard it is, however cosy you are in your chair, you must just say, I’m going to stretch my legs or I’m going to walk down the passage just to show that I can do it!. It’s a challenge.

This at least meant that she was no longer expected to walk. What awful luck, Hubert said. Will you be all right here if I go and stretch my legs for a while?

ustoupit do pozadí, hrát druhé housle

Party members and SA men, who in 1933 had seen themselves as posing a radical, populist alternative to the conservative Reichswehr, now took a back seat and simply provided the setting for the triumphant reception of young officers of the Wehrmacht, heroes home on leave from the Front recounting tales of stirring deeds which had earned them the Ritterkreuz.

Until this improves, it's likely that Russia will take a back seat for Western investment. Instead, countries such as the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Hungary and Poland , where conditions are more conducive to good business strategies, are likely to scoop up the funds.

Once again, community care was to take a back seat while the hospital services received the main attention. There are a few District Health Authorities who are already grasping the nettle and beginning to work closely with their local authority colleagues.

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čerpat odvahu

Cambridge can take heart from Goldie’s substantial victory over Isis .

But we can take heart from the fact that, apart from Germany , Britain enjoys the greatest choice and variety of beers in Europe .

My lord, I shall endeavour to take heart from your assurances in regard to Lord Hastings - I derive much comfort from your undertaking in respect of this my younger son.

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vzít si co na starost

Their sense of tradition is also very strong and instead of dying out in 1951 when enthusiasm was beginning to wane a little, it was revitalised when Stanley Robshaw took it in hand and set it firmly on its feet again. He had always been involved to some extent.

I conceive many People would be happy with an Art of this kind or at least it would be useful to those who die abroad and are brought back home: I often used to talk of embalming but never seriously took it in hand till the year before last, which to this time is well preserved.

The local policeman took it in hand, and nobody grumbled, if he gave them a good clout.

vzít si co k srdci

But don't take it to heart if I don't follow your advice.

Diana took the criticism to heart, avidly read what was being said about her and became depressed and despondent.

So it is also the diet to choose if you have sensibly taken to heart the well-established benefits of reducing fat intake.                         

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prásknout do bot

Taking precipitously to his heels and hurriedly joining the Coldstream Guards, he eventually settled in East Anglia , where he married and where his literary son George was born in 1803.

As Mr Patterson, 22, pointed out his attackers to police Sharpe took to his heels. Sharpe was only about 15 yards away when I moved towards him and he started running,

One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker. He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks, through a council estate, finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued.

spadnout kámen ze srdce komu

I will of course let my client know that Mr. Makaroupides takes full responsibility for this and that will take a weight off his mind.

And Clarke admitted: It's a weight off my mind. I've been waiting for four or five games, so it's a bit of a relief.

You said nothing to offend me, Mr. Cunningham. You mean it? That's a load off my mind, believe me.

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promluvit si od srdce

Mr. Takeshita flew to Washington for a heart-to-heart chat with President Bush. Each man must struggle to convince the party and the public that he is the right choice to guide Japan in the coming years.

When we lost 5-0 at Liverpool a couple of weeks ago we all got together and had a heart‑to-heart. We sorted a few things out then and now we have turned the corner.

Perhaps, now that Alison was at least going to become an adoptive mother she would be able to have a long heart-to-heart with her on the subject; although Celia knew that she would be reluctant, even ashamed, to reveal her innermost feelings.

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rvát si vlasy

The latest development is a drug called clomipramine which has the endearing quality of reducing the desire to pull your hair out when under stress.

A Tory friend of mine who has been trying to write nice things about the Conservative campaign has been tearing his hair out in desperation, not just because they are doing so badly - but because they deserve to.

Look at him, lord of all he surveys, calm, controlled, in total command of himself. Anyone else would be tearing his hair out, confronted by a pack of jabbering foreigners, but does Feargal?

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vysoká holínka (rybářská obuv)

Well, not really, Frank. Miss Whiplash was in fact dressed up in thigh boots and a tightly-laced bodysuit while seeing to the likes of you in her torture chamber.

You had to buy your own stuff, I bought a pair of thigh boots and they were all made with leather and he and I used to put neat's-foot oil on them and I could roll them down just like a b just like a boot.

Fashion was madly exciting: grannies happily wore miniskirts and platform thigh boots, while young girls wore button-up granny boots and Victorian-style, flower-printed dresses.

složit karty

His actions are never excessive, he can sleep with a good conscience, he has purpose and never throws in his hand in adversity.

The only point the press reports missed was that Jim Prior was so unhappy that he almost threw in his hand and resigned.

His father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . Any idea of the reason? A quirk of temperament apparently. Didn’t like hospital work - couldn’t stand colleagues - any colleagues; he’s a loner.

do sytosti, podle libosti

Windsor and I think Jack will go with the players who have done the job for him before, and once this trial is over and we have qualified he will experiment and experiment and experiment to his hearts content.

Now it was an established custom that we very often used to go out to a strip in the desert away from the camp where we could indulge in circuits and landings to our hearts content without being related to the hour by hour flying that went on at the Base camp.

Yes, I just want to have a look at, yes you can crawl under there to your hearts content! You can unplug that for the moment. I'm not really worried about it.

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přímo do obličeje komu

The English boy pointed to my face, unable to control his mirth. I must have looked like the mad ape that wandered the streets of our village with its gypsy owner. Their laughter so infuriated me that I began to have thoughts of revenge.

Kevin Brown took a private call in the embassy from one of his men. We may have hit paydirt, Chief, said the agent tersely. No more on an open line, boy. Get your ass in here fast. Tell me to my face.

I still get the comments. The only difference is that, now I’m somebody, they don’t say it to my face. But because they don’t say it to my face, it doesn’t mean to say I don’t still get them: now they say things behind my back.

do základů

Taylor was down to the bare bones today when only 14 of his England squad took part in his first Bisham training session.

Let Me In, the song for Cobain, is stripped down to the bare bones of voice and abrasive guitar, chilling and unsettling in its raw intensity.

Silhouettes are crisp and clean - cut and fabrics are plush, yet it is the determined way in which designers have stripped down the look to the bare bones which makes it appear quite so elementary. (BNC-B)

ironicky, poťouchle

The plot is more than faintly ludicrous but the music is Rossini at his most inspired - even when one suspects that he is writing with tongue in cheek.

In fact they did not speak French either, they spoke a sort of fractured German. But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and, with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle, seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving.

This way you don’t have to worry about ACUs, licences and doctors’ certificates. It’s tongue in cheek, we don’t take ourselves too seriously yet.

jazykolam

A local woman, Mary Anning, made a living selling fossils from these rocks to collectors, and was immortalized in the tongue-twister She sells sea-shells on the seashore.

Nevertheless, that Kensington Stone is a fake as old and crooked as a left - handed corkscrew with knobs on. Trapped by a tongue twister Caitlin Moran... or why the St Etienne lads may become Spud for a spell while Sarah goes solo.

Pausing only for a brief tongue-twister - she did that very well, Karen, where your tongues circle each other tantalizingly, barely touching - we gave chase along the footpath which runs through the meadows bordering the river.

zaražený

While some people become tongue-tied others cannot stop talking.

The schoolteacher realized that his guests were tongue-tied in this strange place and, after a few openings had brought no more than murmurs.

Writing or speaking tasks which do not clearly specify the receiver make even native-speaking students tongue-tied, and not surprisingly, for we simply do not talk or write into vacuums. (BNC-B)

tnout do živého

At the Royal Ballet, whose dressing rooms they will be using, mention of the Russians touches a raw nerve. It’s difficult for us to understand why everybody wants to talk about the Russians all the time, says ballerina Fiona Chadwick. Ballet isn’t only Russian.

Rhee issued a press statement raising publicly whether South Korea could rely on American assistance in the event of North Korean aggression. This touched a raw nerve and Muccio was instructed immediately to see Rhee and protest at this grave breach of ordinary diplomatic courtesy.

It’s none of your damned business! she snapped half-heartedly, yet his words struck a raw nerve and she almost winced in pain, because Ryan had only been ardent at first; after that, it had been she who had made the advances.

zkusit si něco

John had dreams of being a writer and had tried his hand at poetry, including an epic poem on the Battle of Largs.

Vincent went to him for drawing in the mornings, and in the evenings to try his hand at watercolours, as he had done before Christmas.

přivřít oči nad čím

Governments turn a blind eye to the thousands of poverty-stricken families that migrate to the forest every year.

Both his parents indulged him, particularly his mother. Whereas Nicolae preferred to turn a blind eye to his son's misdemeanors, which were so unlike his own abstemious and dedicated youth.

Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem. He would prefer to turn a blind eye to the problem of asylum seekers around the world.

nevyslyšet, ignorovat co

On these occasions the Chairman is wise to turn a deaf ear to the interruption.

At the end, between lengthy visits to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington and crippled with arthritis as a result of a youthful bicycle accident, he turned a deaf ear to opposition calls to resign after losing his majority.

The owners turned a deaf ear to such an expensive demand.

I can assure you that there are very great people at the bottom of the riot. Next day, when the mob was destroying the Catholic chapel in Moorfields, he apparently turned a deaf ear to requests for orders from the soldiers and the fire officers in attendance; and when the rioters’ work was done he uttered the mildest of rebukes.

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upoutat velkou pozornost

MacMillan does concede that the alienation of working class people from classical music is one that concerns him. He knows he is more likely to turn heads in Covent Garden than he is popping out for the papers in Jordanhill.

These days, we pamper promising young sportsmen with premature praise, often with the best of intentions, and discover that an unearned reputation can be no less fatal. It can turn heads and destroy careers.

If a dress turned heads in the 1960s, it will still turn heads today.

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ohrnovat nos nad

The models too have a better attitude. They don't turn their nose up at a job for a lesser mag if their last assignment was for Elle or something.

The shops here are very good, but Dana is inclined to turn her nose up at anything outside London or Paris .

přesvědčovat, přemlouvat koho

I think we must twist his arm to see if he can repeat the trick in the longer time available in one of our winter talks.

Who twisted his arm to make him admit that? she demanded incredulously.

I did not have to be persuaded to come and see you. No one twisted my arm. (BNC-B)

omotat si kolem prstu

Was it perhaps partly that Mr Mandela, did she get the feeling, was pulling strings, leading the government along? Nelson Mandela is twisting them around his little finger.

Spencer had been spoiled, treated for far too long as a baby and he had grown up knowing how to twist his mother around his little finger.

This situation would be one humdinger of a funny story to tell his city friends over a drink or two - and perhaps to boast to Corosini that he’d wrapped her around his little finger with a few husky phrases and a glimpse of his superlative body.

víc hlav víc ví

The basic assumption is that “two heads are better than one” and that together, in groups, innovative solutions can be found.

The use of experts should become part of the organisational culture - with emphasis on the building of expert teams if possible, (i.e. two heads are better than one).

This dual approach often works, proving that two heads are better than one. Likewise, one's workmate can take awkward calls, e.g. My colleague is not in today, I’m afraid. (BNC-B)

rázný, robustní

My back, my great white back was scored with thirty or forty sharp red welts, regularly patterned as if I’d slept on a bed of nails. Taking a two-fisted grip on my spare tyre, I was able to wrench round some flesh and get a good look at one of these bloodless wounds.

Barnes, moving wide to the left, at last got over a telling cross but Ferdinand completely missed the ball in front of goal. Carlton Palmer drove forward to bring a two-fisted save from Benedettini and the goal-keeper followed up with another save from a Ferdinand header.

Then, quite unexpectedly, he took a clubbing right hand to the head and lost complete co-ordination. He did not react but lay back grasping the top rope. Jones mounted a quick two-fisted assault and the title changed hands in those brief, dramatic seconds. Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure.

přímo pod nosem

As the traveller in jelly walked in to take his seat, head down as though the floor were a road map, something pink was in evidence under his nose. When he sat, it revealed itself as a sticking-plaster, like a small moustache.

Karen wouldn’t commit adultery behind Dennis’s back, but there was nothing that excited her more than doing it under his nose.

That’s what they all say. The strong man lit a cigarette. It looked too frail for his hand. They looked like King Kong and Fay Wray, that hand, that cigarette. There was a movie going on right under his nose and he didn’t even know. The guy had about one brain cell and he was doing time in it.

Christie, whose normal appearance fee of £10,000 has now been doubled because of his Olympic success, was offered around £30,000 to go to Switzerland . Now, with the Japanese brandishing megabucks under his nose, Christie looks increasingly likely to head off for the Far East en route to the World Cup final in Havana a week later.

až po uši v

The glamorous Tyneside girls measure their success in degrees both on and off the stage. Kerry Lee and her sister Janine known in clubland as Ritzy have been up to their ears in exams of late. Janine is at Leeds University studying for a B.A Ed and big sister Kerry is studying psychology at Newcastle .

She was up to her ears in love with Naylor Massingham, and there wasn’t a single solitary thing she could do about it.

I’m up to my ears in work here, not least amongst my worries being a meeting at three of Headquarters staff at SHAEF presided over by General Eisenhower himself.

vysoký do pasu

As soon as the water was waist high, she stood and walked to the side near to the female showers.

With grass knee high and crops waist high, like most clubs, our Finds Table has been almost empty this summer.

Hardly any part of it stood more than waist high now, much was covered in grass or blackthorn bushes, and it could never have been more than a chapel anyway.

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vesta

He went upstairs. There he would remove his jacket, his waistcoat and his tie, roll up his sleeves and wash his hands.

I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes, two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws, ten gallon hat and waistcoat.

A tweed jacket with a toning waistcoat for casual country elegance.

mýt si ruce (nad čím)

Before you wash your hands of the affair, find out if the lender or adviser is tied or independent.

That is the real failure of the Government's approach. They can not wash their hands of social problems and the incidence of crime.

They told their father that if he did marry her they would wash their hands of them.

zelenáč, nezkušený v práci

It’s bad enough that Timothy’s mooning over her like a schoolboy, wet behind the ears. Surely the marquis hasn’t fallen in love with her as well.

I suppose you looked at the possibility that she went - wherever she did go - not of her own free will? Marks showed his spines. Look here, boy, I wasn’t wet behind the ears then and I’m not now!

I was, to put it mildly, wet behind the ears, politically. In my first year in a London art school my two major preoccupations were whether you really could see William Turner’s late canvases as a precursor to French Impressionism.

když se (kdo) nedívá, za zády koho

Of course, you must make sure you protect the baby from a toddler who pinches or slaps or tries to tip her out of the pram when your back is turned.

He is often so busy that the less powerful males are able to disappear into a corner and copulate with his favourite females while his back is turned.

They are quite happy to question you, though, and are not averse to having a look through your personal items when your back is turned.

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těsně zvítězit

Drivers were put through their paces in Oxford this week in the first of six rounds of The Times - Lease Plan Company Car Driver of the Year competition. The standards were high and David Gaskell only won by a nose. (BNC-B)

The winner, ridden by Cash Asmussen, was held up at the back of the field and, after taking the lead inside the final furlong, held on to win by a nose from Starmaniac in the 61/2 - furlong race. Apple Musashi raced prominently until tiring in the final stages. (BNC-B)

Pujols, Mueller win batting crowns by a nose - Albert Pujols won his first NL batting title Sunday, beating Todd Helton in the closest race in league history, and Bill Mueller edged teammate Manny Ramirez and Derek Jeter for the AL crown. (WebCorp)

s očima otevřenýma

Mike, who has been given a car and a house by his new employers, has yet to see his new surroundings, and it will certainly be a journey into the unknown. I 'm going there with my eyes open. It's a great adventure for me and a big challenge.

Gray said last night he was not bitter over being sacked after eight months in charge. He said: I went into the job with my eyes open. Everyone knows what happens if a manager is not successful.

s nosánkem nahoru

Mr. Alexander walks round sniffing with his long distinguished nose in the air. And playing in the mud, kicking a ball.

Nana - we got to help Hyacinth! Martha ran after the old woman, but she did not look round. Hyacinth can get up and walk, she said, her nose in the air in a familiar pose of disdain.

He was followed by Sir Richard Springall and his household. The merchant was flushed with drink; he grinned at Cranston and Athelstan as if they were lifelong friends; Dame Ermengilde, her nose in the air, chose to ignore them.

s otevřenou náručí

Cliff Dyer, 32, a salesman at the factory in Swindon , said: You would have invited him into your home with open arms. He was so nice.

The attitude in Britain was all wrong. It seemed as if we had to prove we were not defrauding anybody before we could start. Abroad we were welcomed with open arms.

Why was it that even as the war was ending the Vatican was busy smuggling dozens of high - ranking Nazi mass - murderers out of Europe ? And why was it that they were received with open arms in Paraguay , Argentina and other devoutly Catholic countries? I myself asked these questions of an aged Italian cardinal. He replied: Because they were Catholics.

pracovat až do strhání těla

People like me, who’ve worked their guts out to expand the business while the militant bastards have been working their guts out to destroy it.

If you establish a business and work your guts out to make it a success while taking a low salary, you can become financially rich on untaxed dividend income.

I worked my guts out getting my Doctorate, so that I could be a member of Project Eden and be with you.

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ohrnout nos

She said she’d always wanted a grown-up daughter to be real friends with. Nora Fanshawe wrinkled her nose in distaste.

Seems like the business is going well. Yeah. Alix wrinkled her nose.

And the smell! Susan wrinkled her nose.

Ty pomůžeš mně a já tobě.

He hesitated, a cunning look suddenly coming into his eyes. The thing is, just occasionally, you might listen to me. In this case I know what I'm talking about. And, after all, you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours - that's what business is about, they tell me.

Ty mne i ya tebe, people said, a knowing smile on their faces. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. It was the essential corruption of an under-privileged people. It worked on all levels.

Here the guiding motto was: you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours - a process to which Malinowski usually referred in more dignified language as reciprocity or give and take.

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těšit se, až vypadne

Leila just took his money and waved goodbye. She was not sorry to see the back of Lazar Farm this time.

He loved the fat knight but on this occasion dearly wished to see the back of him.

Time and again she told herself she was fortunate to see the back of him, so often she reminded herself of the despicable way he had behaved.

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mladý duchem

It’s ideal for children aged over five and adults who are young at heart. This exciting pop musical takes you on an adventure deep into the woods.

His final illness was a cruel blow to a man who had a fiercely independent spirit and remained young at heart.

Nightlife is here relaxed and friendly, with several restaurants and cosy bars: there is even a discotheque for the young at heart while the bright lights of Innsbruck are only a taxi ride away. (BNC-B)

na chvíli se ti zastavilo srdce

At the end of my reading, the lecturer asked the newcomer his name, I hadn't seen him since that early morning encounter several weeks before. My heart skipped a beat and the fear came flooding back.

For our part, the only time our heart comes close to missing a beat is when Denice wedges the still-full carton of popcorn between her thighs and invites us to help ourselves whenever we feel like it.