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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