domingo, 19 de maio de 2024 às 06:26
Site: OpenMoodle
Disciplina: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Glossário: THE HUMAN BODY
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two heads are better than one

víc hlav víc ví

The basic assumption is that “two heads are better than one” and that together, in groups, innovative solutions can be found.

The use of experts should become part of the organisational culture - with emphasis on the building of expert teams if possible, (i.e. two heads are better than one).

This dual approach often works, proving that two heads are better than one. Likewise, one's workmate can take awkward calls, e.g. My colleague is not in today, I’m afraid. (BNC-B)

two-fisted

rázný, robustní

My back, my great white back was scored with thirty or forty sharp red welts, regularly patterned as if I’d slept on a bed of nails. Taking a two-fisted grip on my spare tyre, I was able to wrench round some flesh and get a good look at one of these bloodless wounds.

Barnes, moving wide to the left, at last got over a telling cross but Ferdinand completely missed the ball in front of goal. Carlton Palmer drove forward to bring a two-fisted save from Benedettini and the goal-keeper followed up with another save from a Ferdinand header.

Then, quite unexpectedly, he took a clubbing right hand to the head and lost complete co-ordination. He did not react but lay back grasping the top rope. Jones mounted a quick two-fisted assault and the title changed hands in those brief, dramatic seconds. Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure.

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under one’s nose

přímo pod nosem

As the traveller in jelly walked in to take his seat, head down as though the floor were a road map, something pink was in evidence under his nose. When he sat, it revealed itself as a sticking-plaster, like a small moustache.

Karen wouldn’t commit adultery behind Dennis’s back, but there was nothing that excited her more than doing it under his nose.

That’s what they all say. The strong man lit a cigarette. It looked too frail for his hand. They looked like King Kong and Fay Wray, that hand, that cigarette. There was a movie going on right under his nose and he didn’t even know. The guy had about one brain cell and he was doing time in it.

Christie, whose normal appearance fee of £10,000 has now been doubled because of his Olympic success, was offered around £30,000 to go to Switzerland . Now, with the Japanese brandishing megabucks under his nose, Christie looks increasingly likely to head off for the Far East en route to the World Cup final in Havana a week later.

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up to one’s ears in

až po uši v

The glamorous Tyneside girls measure their success in degrees both on and off the stage. Kerry Lee and her sister Janine known in clubland as Ritzy have been up to their ears in exams of late. Janine is at Leeds University studying for a B.A Ed and big sister Kerry is studying psychology at Newcastle .

She was up to her ears in love with Naylor Massingham, and there wasn’t a single solitary thing she could do about it.

I’m up to my ears in work here, not least amongst my worries being a meeting at three of Headquarters staff at SHAEF presided over by General Eisenhower himself.

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waist high

vysoký do pasu

As soon as the water was waist high, she stood and walked to the side near to the female showers.

With grass knee high and crops waist high, like most clubs, our Finds Table has been almost empty this summer.

Hardly any part of it stood more than waist high now, much was covered in grass or blackthorn bushes, and it could never have been more than a chapel anyway.

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waistcoat

vesta

He went upstairs. There he would remove his jacket, his waistcoat and his tie, roll up his sleeves and wash his hands.

I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes, two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws, ten gallon hat and waistcoat.

A tweed jacket with a toning waistcoat for casual country elegance.

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wash one’s hands of something

mýt si ruce (nad čím)

Before you wash your hands of the affair, find out if the lender or adviser is tied or independent.

That is the real failure of the Government's approach. They can not wash their hands of social problems and the incidence of crime.

They told their father that if he did marry her they would wash their hands of them.

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wet behind the ears

zelenáč, nezkušený v práci

It’s bad enough that Timothy’s mooning over her like a schoolboy, wet behind the ears. Surely the marquis hasn’t fallen in love with her as well.

I suppose you looked at the possibility that she went - wherever she did go - not of her own free will? Marks showed his spines. Look here, boy, I wasn’t wet behind the ears then and I’m not now!

I was, to put it mildly, wet behind the ears, politically. In my first year in a London art school my two major preoccupations were whether you really could see William Turner’s late canvases as a precursor to French Impressionism.

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when/ while somebody’s back is turned

když se (kdo) nedívá, za zády koho

Of course, you must make sure you protect the baby from a toddler who pinches or slaps or tries to tip her out of the pram when your back is turned.

He is often so busy that the less powerful males are able to disappear into a corner and copulate with his favourite females while his back is turned.

They are quite happy to question you, though, and are not averse to having a look through your personal items when your back is turned.

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win by a nose

těsně zvítězit

Drivers were put through their paces in Oxford this week in the first of six rounds of The Times - Lease Plan Company Car Driver of the Year competition. The standards were high and David Gaskell only won by a nose. (BNC-B)

The winner, ridden by Cash Asmussen, was held up at the back of the field and, after taking the lead inside the final furlong, held on to win by a nose from Starmaniac in the 61/2 - furlong race. Apple Musashi raced prominently until tiring in the final stages. (BNC-B)

Pujols, Mueller win batting crowns by a nose - Albert Pujols won his first NL batting title Sunday, beating Todd Helton in the closest race in league history, and Bill Mueller edged teammate Manny Ramirez and Derek Jeter for the AL crown. (WebCorp)

with one’s eyes open

s očima otevřenýma

Mike, who has been given a car and a house by his new employers, has yet to see his new surroundings, and it will certainly be a journey into the unknown. I 'm going there with my eyes open. It's a great adventure for me and a big challenge.

Gray said last night he was not bitter over being sacked after eight months in charge. He said: I went into the job with my eyes open. Everyone knows what happens if a manager is not successful.

Obviously, if the party to whom the representation is made knows that the statement is untrue he will not have any remedy. He has entered into the contract with his eyes open to the true facts; the statement itself will not have influenced him. (BNC-B)

with one’s nose in the air

s nosánkem nahoru

Mr. Alexander walks round sniffing with his long distinguished nose in the air. And playing in the mud, kicking a ball.

Nana - we got to help Hyacinth! Martha ran after the old woman, but she did not look round. Hyacinth can get up and walk, she said, her nose in the air in a familiar pose of disdain.

He was followed by Sir Richard Springall and his household. The merchant was flushed with drink; he grinned at Cranston and Athelstan as if they were lifelong friends; Dame Ermengilde, her nose in the air, chose to ignore them.

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with open arms

s otevřenou náručí

Cliff Dyer, 32, a salesman at the factory in Swindon , said: You would have invited him into your home with open arms. He was so nice.

The attitude in Britain was all wrong. It seemed as if we had to prove we were not defrauding anybody before we could start. Abroad we were welcomed with open arms.

Why was it that even as the war was ending the Vatican was busy smuggling dozens of high - ranking Nazi mass - murderers out of Europe ? And why was it that they were received with open arms in Paraguay , Argentina and other devoutly Catholic countries? I myself asked these questions of an aged Italian cardinal. He replied: Because they were Catholics.

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work one's guts out

pracovat až do strhání 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.

If you establish a business and work your guts out to make it a success while taking a low salary, you can become financially rich on untaxed dividend income.

I worked my guts out getting my Doctorate, so that I could be a member of Project Eden and be with you.

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wrinkle one’s nose

ohrnout nos

She said she’d always wanted a grown-up daughter to be real friends with. Nora Fanshawe wrinkled her nose in distaste.

Seems like the business is going well. Yeah. Alix wrinkled her nose.

And the smell! Susan wrinkled her nose.