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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