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.