moci se přetrhnout (horlivostí)

As a family, they had everything - materially, anyway - and their father bent over backwards pleasing them, assuring them he loved them all.

For us to retain that work we are gonna have to bend over backwards to do what Regional Railways want.

The whole incident was a very sore point with my crew, who had worked very hard for long hours on this one, and it was a classic illustration of how our laws often seem to lean over backwards to protect the lawbreakers.

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odejít a nelitovat toho

She rang a bell to be let out again and left him without a backward glance.

Feeling a little like I imagined a tomb-robber might feel, but knowing that my motives were of the very best, I relocked both doors and left without a backward glance.

She was ready to go. Picking up her bags, she dropped an envelope with her rent on the dresser and left without a backward glance. She hadn't enjoyed her stay here, and she had no intention of ever coming back.

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být nabručený, mrzutý

So he becomes, first an accuser of his brethren, then an accuser of God, and finally the despairing accuser of himself. Such people are like a bear with a sore head. The first solution is mutual confession of sin and wrong feelings, and this may have to happen again and again with the same people.

You know you're doing wrong, said the team leader who was like a bear with a sore head for the rest of the morning. He was a powerfully built man, who had aroused resentment at the firm because he had constantly called the administration staff morons!

You know how men are when they've had a glass too many. He'll be like a bear with a sore head when he gets up. Are you suggesting my husband's been drinking?

vzít komu vítr z plachet

What is everyone going to start thinking when they see how you've cut the ground from under my feet like this? What are my students going to think for goodness' sake?

In the process, soul has been installed as something that bolsters your life, rather than knocks the ground from under your feet. The extremism I once heard in soul has been evened out.

When delegates from various provincial committees came to St Petersburg for consultations in August 1859, Nikolai Miliutin cut the ground from under their feet by presenting them with an outline of the Commission's views which went far beyond what they had in mind.

pomoci komu v nesnázích

Courtaulds has given a local school a leg up the business ladder by helping them set up shop as scientific equipment suppliers.

Come on, Miss Pargeter, someone must have had an interest in giving Nicola a leg up? The presenter smiled. Only Nicola herself, as far as I can make out.

A short time later they went out to where a bay gelding and a grey mare were tethered and, after instructing her concerning the correct side to mount, he gave her a leg up. It feels so high, she exclaimed as exhilaration gripped her. Don’t be nervous, he advised.

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.

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.

železná ruka

Such optimism may still prove to be justified: but the bets are much riskier, now that China ’s leadership has shown its continued reliance on the mailed fist and its continued vulnerability to factional disputes.

Rather than overload the suit’s resources, he relaxed. The power axe, clenched in his mailed fist, still hewed away at the same small area in front of him, but for the life of him he couldn’t push himself into the space it liquefied, nor could he shift the weapon to left or to right.

I bear the same arms now but the middle finger of the mailed fist is no longer extended since the Queen’s herald, Rouge Croix, discovered that in certain parts of France such a gesture could be taken as offensive or obscene.

předhazovat komu co

The politically correct will blanch, but this is of course only the author’s way of rubbing a bigoted society’s nose in its sins, he explained.

The most insecure are always the most selfish. It was bad enough to do it, but to rub his wife’s nose in his mess was, in the end, unforgivable. He is the kind of man who loves women, who puts them on a pedestal, who is in awe of them.

They understood that it was important to praise Elizabeth and the baby, whatever their own turmoil. When a nurse brought the new baby back, my cousin took her child in her arms and rubbed her nose in the yellow down on top of its small head. Soon she was choosing a name and kissing its tiny fingers and toes.

urazit koho, dotknout se koho, vyvést z míry koho

It appears that the nose of the lady correspondent of Handelsblatt in London was put badly out of joint when Bock refused her an interview on the grounds that it would be bad form prior to Lonrho’s results.

We need to tread carefully and emphasise that the idea is far from advanced in case a nose or two gets put out of joint. University sport is as steeped in political intrigue as any other human activity when two or more people happen to congregate.

THE ability of Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) to put noses out of joint in the City has not dimmed, despite its L860m plan to take over SGWarburg, the investment bank.

He has behaved with charm and modesty and he even had the good grace to lose to Mark Petchey, a Brit with his nose put out of joint by Rusedski’s sudden arrival.

nechat se oškubat

There’s definitely money to be made by running an Outward Bound course. All you have to do is grow a beard and look rugged, take a bunch of gullible kids from good homes, make their parents pay through the nose to let them sleep in bunks and eat beans, and then pretend that mundane things are difficult or unusual.

Classes were no longer in the afternoon and evening, after work. They were work, and the students, who were paying through the nose for them, were grim, resentful and bloody-minded.

The only work I could find was with Clive’s main sharp-end competitor, a school offering short courses to businessmen on company accounts. They paid through the nose for one-to-one intensive tuition from qualified experts supported by sophisticated resources incorporating the latest technology.

Amazingly, though, foreign tycoons pay through the nose to hear Lady Thatcher spout her economic theories - even though, back home, businesses and homeowners are still suffering because of them.

jeden za druhým, těsně za sebou

If you are just beginning to ride, I would strongly recommend at least half a dozen lessons on the lunge before you join the crocodile of horses marching nose to tail around a school.

They were proceeding north on the A5 when Mr Woodward’s attention was suddenly drawn to what he first thought were three buses stood nose to tail.

That said, those winter mornings found our Russian cars nose to tail in true Politburo style, and us half asleep, boxed in their cabins, yawning like a pair of pre‑packed orchids.

A closed van was coming fast from the other direction, and the Montego was nose to tail with the car in front of it. He kicked down the accelerator - he was in automatic - and against all his better instincts overtook a Vauxhall and slewed.

ohrnovat nos nad kým, dívat se svrchu na koho

But no American politician, especially a wealthy one, is going to last two minutes if he’s caught looking down his nose at folk the way the French do. It’s the ordinary folks at home who vote you into office, remember - and out of it.

You are too old, she said. And in any case we are related. Only in the second degree, Jehan said cheerfully. She looked down her nose at him. Maybe I shall consider you, she said. But it isn’t interesting to be courted by someone you know.

And I can’t see any reason why they can’t. Why they should, people with a higher look down their nose at the people who are lower than themselves, I can not figure out.

mít koho omotaného kolem prstu

We should take it easy and not be led by the nose by the Commission or by the Council of Foreign Ministers.

Old Wolsey loved to lead people by the nose, in particular his nephew and myself, and relished his little games of sending us unarmed into darkened chambers full of assassins.

If for all this, the General Staff still performs the lion’s share of staff work, this is hardly evidence that the military lead the Party by the nose in defence matters, either over details or essentials.

They are prone to the herd instinct, and politicians can easily lead them by the nose.

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zapojit do práce, zapřáhnout

This is his sort of course because he’s a grinder, who succeeded Faldo as champion. Now is the time for the golfer from Welwyn Garden City to put his nose to the grindstone once more. And he could again seal victory at the 11th.

We’ll do it again some time. Don’t bank on it, Luke interposed, before Merrill could speak. I intend to keep your nose to the grindstone, Rob. As a potential breadwinner, you’d better start concentrating on your career.

Oh, I know he’s a bit single-minded about Woodline; He keeps his nose to the grindstone and thinks everyone else should. But that’s probably because the firm was in a hell of a mess when he took over. Our father was a good designer, but he had no business sense.