mezi čtyřma očima, osobně, tváří v tvář 

Live work is the one area where the artists and audience meet face to face.

Most people when confronted with a horse will pat it. Why? If two people meet socially, face to face, sooner or later one of them will speak, or acknowledge in some way the presence of the other.

I have not seen her alone face to face all the time we have been here and when I do see her in company she is won’t to turn from me.

(BNC-B)

utkání, konfrontace; buly, vhazování

Confronting Billy with his unworthy behaviour towards her husband, she exposes this legend as a cheap fake. When Sorella recounts this face-off, it’s also intended as a moment of recognition, an anagnorisis, for the narrator.

That could start tonight as Chelmsford go to Medway in the Essex Radio Midweek League. Tomorrow they entertain Stevenage (face-off 8pm) with a crowd likely to be boosted by employees of potential sponsors, Midland Bank.

The Chinese vessels blocked the path of the Philippine naval vessel as journalists were lifted off in helicopters to inspect Mischief Reef, which China has seized and fortified. The face‑off was the clearest illustration since China fought Vietnam, in a naval battle in 1988, of Peking’s determination to claim all the Spratlys as its own.

vyznít na prázdno, zůstat bez vyslyšení

The only government response so far has been another round of interrogations and detentions. The petition will fall on deaf ears because any admission that the government might have made a big mistake would seriously undermine its legitimacy.

The Secretary of State, Sir Patrick Mayhew, urges caution until the document is finally agreed, but his words may fall on deaf ears.

But their calls for a return to the old days fall on deaf ears.

cítit co v kostech

I had a feeling McCartney was reported as saying that what my friend told me was true. I could feel it in my bones. And I have something to back up my suspicions.

Then simply take my word for it, she said consolingly. You will see your prince again and be very close - I feel it in my bones!

It's all going to be perfect! I just know it! I can feel it in my bones!

(BNC-B)

rvát se zuby nehty, ze všech sil

He would also fight tooth and nail to keep her from the likes of Tommy Allen.

He is prepared to fight tooth and nail to stop anyone opening one near his house.

I will fight this tooth and nail and won't hesitate to organize a demonstration right outside the airport if necessary.

(BNC-B)

zorientovat se, rozkoukat se

It is fair to say that both of them deserve time to settle: in the past I got it wrong and I was fortunate to get three years in which to find my feet.

At fifteen years old I started my drama course and I couldn't have been happier. It obviously took a while to find my feet with the group but when I had done I really started to enjoy myself.

I had recently stayed with him in Scotland : knowing him was a help, for I felt out of my milieu. Lord Airlie also went out of his way to help me find my feet.

(BNC-B)

z první ruky

Of what use was reading about life? First-hand experience held more appeal.

In the first place, everyone travels by car and therefore everyone has first-hand knowledge of how awful the roads are.

They are less likely to dominate than are men, because they have such painful first-hand experience of what it feels like to be oppressed by those in authority.

(BNC-B)

pěstní zápas

Staff got frazzled, speakers got angry and there was almost a fist fight between some of my colleagues and the lighting technicians.

And I’ve never seen a case in which there was a fist fight in front of the cinema and they pulled the movie because of it.

And eleven of them got involved in a fist fight in the middle of one of those New York streets. It must have been a lovely sight.

zcela protiřečit, naprosto odporovat čemu

Once again we’ve had to witness the horrifying sight of Christmas carnage on the roads because a few stupid people fly in the face of common sense and drive like lunatics whatever the conditions.

Labour will give people more say in drawing up plans for their area and create a new right of appeal for residents against developments which fly in the face of their local plan. Beneficial development will be speeded up, damaging development checked and the green belt safeguarded.

What is more, Cox suggests that support in the South is at best lukewarm. Nonetheless, the characterization of catholic - nationalist ideology I have just documented would seem to fly in the face of this sort of evidence.

jít ve šlépějích koho

But the bulk of his beers come from Belgium, where some of Rex's happiest moments have been passed in breweries, sometimes following in the footsteps of Michael Jackson, who has graced the Cook's Delight annual beer tasting.

Mitsubishi is expected to be the next Japanese company to begin car manufacture in Europe following in the footsteps of Nissan, Toyota and Honda.

He could have followed in the footsteps of some of his more notorious predecessors, by gambling, drinking and scandalizing society.

(BNC-B)

řídit se instinktem, jít rovnou za nosem

Finding her was easy enough, I just followed my nose.

As the floor numbering system at all modern universities is totally unintelligible to everyone except the drug-crazed mathematician who thought it up, I just followed my nose.

Don’t worry, there’s no danger of me getting lost this time. I smelled the coffee and followed my nose.

postrčit koho, dotlačit koho k předčasnému jednání

The great imperial Zanuck was not amused at Boyo Burton’s refusal and tried to force his hand. On occasions like these, friends of Burton reported, he would counter-attack by releasing his temper, tearing up the room.

His alternative is to call in the army, as he did in 1986 when low-paid police rioted in Cairo. The Islamic militants, by hitting Egypt ’s tourist revenues, would dearly love to force his hand. Military intervention would raise serious questions about the stability of the regime.

The reason for approaching the Archbishop in such a manner was essentially to force his hand as, according to Mrs Whitehouse, he had frequently seemed unwilling to become involved in public debates on questions of morals.

z ruky do ruky

Coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand.

At Magdalen Bridge , Dennis went ashore for more champagne, which passed from hand to hand as we negotiated the lower reaches of the river.

Cambridge , says a contemporary, who made not himself a disciple of Mr. Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes, and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines.

z celého srdce, ze srdce, srdečně

We would like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all your help. (Free Dictionary)

And I say from the bottom of my heart, I am so happy to be back in South Africa. (Free Dictionary)

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being the best sister anyone could ever have. (Google)

od pasu dolů

Geordie tiptoed down the beach towards the sea, his top part a deep tan, from the waist down a dirty white colour.

For months he had hung between life and death, with a bullet in his spine. Then he had been brought home, paralysed from the waist down, embittered and resentful.

A fairly young man in Italian leisure wear from the waist down and nothing but a tan from the waist up appeared from a cabin, ready to repel boarders.