chladnokrevně, chladnokrevný

It is clear that Professor Wybran has been assassinated in cold blood because he was a Jew, it said. Fifty years after the Holocaust, a Jewish leader is killed in the heart of the capital of Europe .

Finally, he sighed heavily and continued speaking. Your parents' death was no accident, Mikhail. They were shot down in cold blood with their friends, by the KGB.

Four generations of Glynns, and the fourth of the dynasty had got himself murdered in his own office; no heat-of-the-moment crime either, but a carefully planned murder executed in cold blood out of hatred, or fear, or obsessive greed.

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tušení, instinkt

Remember I thought of having him in Ireland - I wish I had. But I suppose I thought it was, like I was trying to tell him today, a gut feeling, being Irish. It's probably a phase he's going through.

Ferguson said: I think Howard is looking to strengthen other areas of his team. I had a gut feeling Eric was the right man for us and good value at the price. And it all went so sweetly.

Beverley, though, was convinced that something was seriously wrong with her son. I felt very tense about it - I had a gut feeling there was something awful around the corner, she says. Then Thomas developed a gurgling cough.

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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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těšit se, až vypadne

Leila just took his money and waved goodbye. She was not sorry to see the back of Lazar Farm this time.

He loved the fat knight but on this occasion dearly wished to see the back of him.

Time and again she told herself she was fortunate to see the back of him, so often she reminded herself of the despicable way he had behaved.

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dělat něco hravě, levou rukou

She said they did everything in teams, for the honour, and what was the good of that, when she could leave them all standing with one arm tied behind her back?

As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests, however, it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back.

She was so used to this sort of conversation that she could, as it were, verbally handle it with one hand tied behind her back.

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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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rozčilovat koho

Seems a good idea on the whole, but whatever you do, don't go writing to that ruddy man at the tax office any more or you'll get his back up.

Now I must admit my first thoughts of it were it really gets my back up for some reason or other. I don't know whether anybody else feels like that but I do.

Did I tell you about that bloke the other week who got, the one who just cocky with me? Ooh God! He really got my back up!

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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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Ty pomůžeš mně a já tobě.

He hesitated, a cunning look suddenly coming into his eyes. The thing is, just occasionally, you might listen to me. In this case I know what I'm talking about. And, after all, you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours - that's what business is about, they tell me.

Ty mne i ya tebe, people said, a knowing smile on their faces. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. It was the essential corruption of an under-privileged people. It worked on all levels.

Here the guiding motto was: you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours - a process to which Malinowski usually referred in more dignified language as reciprocity or give and take.

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znát někoho/ něco jako své boty

You should learn your river and your places like the back of your hand, a senior officer said. I mean I used to. I could have at one stage recited to you every discharge from the estuary upstream for fifty miles on the north bank of the river, in order.

You must know the moor like the back of your hand. I know it pretty well.

Mapping seems to be rather neglected by many people but I reckon that it is vital if you are to get to know a water like the back of your hand. Cameras and notebooks eliminate the need for a Mastermind memory and confer the vital ingredient of confidence which is so necessary for a concerted attempt at big fish.

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být odložen na později

He wants the matter to be put on the back burner until the Republic have taken another important step towards next year's USA finals.

Hornet's Richard Wolfenden points out that the company has not been liquidated but put on the back burner until production can be resumed abroad with lower costs and overheads.

Ratners thought this through a couple of years ago and then found itself locked into the game of pushing price to keep volumes moving and everything was put on the back burner.

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na konci světa

Once Bernie and I dragged right across town to a pub in the back of beyond in North London because we'd seen a gig advertised there featuring a band called The Teenage Rebels.

The train from the Back of Beyond is about to arrive at the Middle of Nowhere. A week out of Moscow across Siberia and five time zones later you somehow land up in landlocked Mongolia.

She was appalled at the idea of living in the wilds, as she put it. To expect her to bury herself in the back of beyond, away from all her friends with just Penry Vaughan for company, constituted adequate grounds for divorce in her view.

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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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je to kradené (zboží)

They need frequent renovation, says Brian Miller, Barrow & Hepburn's managing director. They sometimes look as if they've fallen off the back of a lorry.

He was only 18 years old, but was making quite a market on the side in watches and jewellery that he would jokingly claim had fallen off the back of a lorry.

They clearly distinguished between stealing from shops and stealing from houses. A number might buy a personal hi-fi they suspected came off the back of a lorry, but would never purchase goods burgled from a family.

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tajně

Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor, in a drab overcoat, let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle, keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless.

One young representative, Colin Mason, a computer systems manager from Streatham, who branded environmental controls as socialism by the back door, was gently advised by the Secretary of State to read the Tory philosopher Edmund Burke.

The similarities are made more comprehensible in the 1930 essay, Baudelaire, where he sees Baudelaire's Satanism as an attempt to get into Christianity by the back door.

It would impute to Parliament an intention to import the convention into domestic law by the back door.

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