neděle, 19. května 2024, 10.24
Stránky: OpenMoodle
Kurz: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Slovník: THE HUMAN BODY
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set one’s heart on something/ have your heart set on something

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.

To help you afford the house you've set your heart on, choose either our low start or deferred payment options - these will make buying your home easier. (BNC-B)

set somebody by the ears

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.

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set/ lay/ clap eyes on somebody, something

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!

She stood there dejectedly looking at him, convinced that he would never want to lay eyes on her again. (BNC-B)

shake a leg

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.

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shake one’s fists

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.

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sheep’s eyes

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.

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shoulder height

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.

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show a clean pair of heels

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.

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show one’s face

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.

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show one’s hand

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.

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shut one’s face

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.

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slog/ sweat/ work one’s guts out

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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somebody’s heart is in the right place

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.

The British Government's heart is in the right place but I fear that anything requiring agreement in Europe will move at a snail's pace. (BNC-B)

somebody’s heart sinks

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.

And my heart sinks if I walk in to a party and there's somebody there that I don't already know, or know of ... and I find I am sitting next to them. (BNC-B)

something is mouth-watering/ making my mouth water

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.

In spite of the tension between her and Nathan the aromatic scent of the cooked fish in its herb and lemon dressing made her mouth water. (BNC-B)