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.