sobota, 18 mája 2024, 12:44
Portál: OpenMoodle
Kurz: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Slovník: THE HUMAN BODY

get right up somebody’s nose

lézt krkem komu

And he's asking viewers to write in with things that get right up their noses. If the complaint sounds familiar, Gerry'll phone you during the show.

Everybody annoys you but you don't think you annoy, and yet you never stop to think if you may annoy people as well. You get right up my nose you do.

I don't know why I didn't think of it myself. I mean, you and Edward aren't involved emotionally like we are, and he's not going to get right up your nose in the same way and I'll know where he is and that he's all right.

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by the skin of one’s teeth

jen o vlas

Littlewoods Cup holders stayed in the competition by the skin of their teeth last night at Leeds Road .

Consolation for Bush came with the Indiana result. He won, but only by the skin of his teeth. He held Oklahoma, South Carolina and Nebraska, but other states forecast victory for Clinton by staggering margins.

He was shot getting away with the ransom. And two others got away by the skin of their teeth.

(BNC-B)

grit one’s teeth

zatnout zuby

We now reach the part of this history where English fans, if they can bear to continue, will really need to grit their teeth.

But we must start working towards the right British day for tax freedom April 1. For 1995 there is nothing for it but to grit the teeth and get back to work, work, work.

I have had to grit my teeth, fight my own battles and stand my ground. (BNC-B)

bite one’s tongue

držet jazyk za zuby

But Trevor told me it was tactical, so I've got to bite my tongue and accept his explanation.

When I was in prison I used to grip my fingers and bite my tongue and think.

There are a number of things that have happened while I've been here that I have disagreed with, sometimes quite strongly, but I am not a dictator and I have had to bite my tongue.

(BNC-B)

be lying through one’s teeth

lhát, jako když tiskne

I know enough about geophysics to say that these people are lying through their teeth when they claim they can eventually guarantee long-term safety underground.

You, Fernando Serra, are either lying through your teeth, putting on a brave face or you have the same loose sort of arrangement with your mistress as you accused me of having with Steve.

Their Liberal and Labour opponents, whose foreign policy clothes had been so comprehensively stolen, were reduced to assertions - unconvincing to most voters - that the Government was lying through its teeth. In fact, of course, it was.

(BNC-B)

your heart misses/ skips a beat

na chvíli se ti zastavilo srdce

At the end of my reading, the lecturer asked the newcomer his name, I hadn't seen him since that early morning encounter several weeks before. My heart skipped a beat and the fear came flooding back.

For our part, the only time our heart comes close to missing a beat is when Denice wedges the still-full carton of popcorn between her thighs and invites us to help ourselves whenever we feel like it.

My heart lurched and seemed to miss a beat, but I went on reading calmly, though the print was blurred. (BNC-B)

open one’s heart

svěřit se

Because this is what he always felt after his father died - that if he could just speak to him now, he could really open his heart and say everything, without feeling that strange mute on his vocal chords.

He speculated whether he should speak to the friar, open his heart, tell him his secrets, get rid of the sea of misery he felt bathing his body, drowning his mind.

For her part, she felt that he was someone to whom she could open her heart and who would understand.

(BNC-B)

on the tip of one’s tongue

na jazyku

Gray is talking in his trademark way (as if he's just remembered a name that's been on the tip of his tongue for months) about his debut novel Lanark.

The words and phrases they need for meetings, negotiating, and presentations will no longer be on the tip of their tongues but at their fingertips.

I don't mean Carole Lombard, do I?, said Jannie. No, no. The name's on the tip of my tongue.

(BNC-B)

have a change of heart

změnit názor

LORD RENFREW, the Master of Jesus College, Cambridge , has had a change of heart. He is talking of reviewing his position as a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Club.

She had already been offered a place at the University of Georgia , but recently she has had a change of heart, and it is now a toss - up between Moray House College in Edinburgh or Stirling University , two establishments which offer golf scholarships.

At the start of it, Pleasence had declared himself to be a conscientious objector and was sent to the Lake District to work as a forester. He had a change of heart six months later and joined the RAF in 1942.

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somebody’s heart is in the right place

má srdce na pravém místě

Neil's heart is in the right place. He wants to look after his people.

Does Friend agree that that would provide low-cost homes, a welcome boost to the housing market and reduce housing benefits? Mr. Friend's heart is in the right place, but I do not believe that his precise proposal would have the effect that he has in mind.

The British Government's heart is in the right place but I fear that anything requiring agreement in Europe will move at a snail's pace. (BNC-B)

somebody’s heart sinks

ztrácet naději

I love eating in restaurants, but unfortunately all over France they are now mostly patronised by French and British tourists. Like all British tourists, my heart sinks when I go into a restaurant and hear British voices.

I'm a close personal friend of the Internet, but even so my heart sinks whenever I hear an editor tell me how the Net will bail him out.

And my heart sinks if I walk in to a party and there's somebody there that I don't already know, or know of ... and I find I am sitting next to them. (BNC-B)

break somebody’s heart

zlomit srdce komu

It does break my heart when very generous people bring me a bottle that I know means more to their budget than it does to my palate.

She is everything I could ever have wanted. It will break my heart if I had to give my little girl up.

I am your mother and nothing can change that. But if you marry that woman, you will break my heart.

(BNC-B)

talk to someone heart-to-heart/ have a heart-to-heart

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.

(BNC-B)

a man/ woman after my own heart

člověk mé krevní skupiny

Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright, astonished and disarmed, and burst into a muted crow of laughter. By God, my lord, I think you are a man after my own heart!  (BNC-B)

On the contrary, it kept me so wide awake that when “lights out” sounded that night I was still reading, and next morning was first on deck in the history room. This Tom Jefferson was a man after my own heart ! His whole crowd belonged to my league. (WebCorp)

Ivor really is a man after my own heart, full organic status from the Soil Association. (BNC-B)

lose heart

klesat na mysli

On 13 November Colonel Durand learned from Wade that he was not coming to the relief of Carlisle since the roads through Yorkshire were inadequate for his artillery. The militia lost heart at this news; they had already been on duty for a month, and had been treated with extraordinary meanness.

This is great news for the new generation of women writers, but for some it is already too late. They have lost heart, stashed away their manuscripts and told themselves they were never really writers anyway.

As an artist, Branwell went to London to seek admission to the Royal Academy Schools, but he lost heart, as soon as he arrived, and never even began. (BNC-B)