nemotorný, nešikovný, neobratný

In the nineteenth century the chateau was altered further, with some ham fisted restoration and the addition by King Louis-Philippe and the Emperor Napoleon - the Third, not the First - of a sixth tower to go with the five earlier ones.

In her book Riding Through My Life she revealed that the KGB had then made several ham-fisted attempts to spy on her. She arrived at her hotel to find a fearsome woman guarding her door.

Ham-fisted thieves had tried to steal a Metro GTi from my driveway. But in their clumsy efforts to break the steering lock they had broken the steering itself.

pozvednout p ěst (proti komu)

Julie spun the weapon, bringing the clawed part down on his hand as he raised his fists in defence.

Several rough-looking men were raising their fists and shouting at Farmer Yatton, Angela’s father, who was ordering them out. Cheryl turned rather pale. The gypsies looked so threatening.

A more marginal case is where the defendant is seen to be raising his fists in anticipation of the fight.

vládnout železnou rukou, tvrdou rukou

My father ruled us with an iron fist and he hit us with an iron fist too, Joe recalls. But he loved us and he worked himself to death for us.

The DDI reminded them all of the secret police who had ruled East Germany with an iron fist.

Next Thursday Chileans will go to the polls to elect a successor to General Pinochet, who has ruled with an iron fist since the overthrow of Allende in 1973.

třísknout pěstí (do stolu)

Graham banged his fist angrily on the table. A couple at the next table scowled at him but looked away when he glared back at them.

The old Monsieur le Président, who had presided so long in his own way at the top, shouted and banged his fist before leaving the room.

What he was doing - when that crazy mare put three fucking bullets in him. Go on, call them. He banged his fist down on the table and glared at Kellerman.

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.

zpackat, udělat nešikovně co

There are far too many organisations trying to save hunting. They are making a thoroughly poor fist of it, and many people have virtually given up.

Off on business with a milliner from Spalding leaving a list of jobs as long as his arm and a warning against making a poor fist of it.

Derbyshire made a poor fist of making 291 for victory. The early-order batsmen left Cork with an awful lot to do and, even in his week of glory, the task proved beyond him.

hrozit p ěstmi

He ran about the library shouting and shaking his fists at the shelves and the Headmaster had to send for Matron to calm him down.

Stand and the scene around us was indescribable as the staid more English than the English burghers of Adelaide and their wives stood up booing and shaking their fists. It was said that armed mounted troopers were grouped outside the oval to quell a possible riot.

People came out of the theatre and were shaking their fists at us, said Ken. One woman went up to Codron and Peter Wood and said just one short crisp sentence.

vz ít na svá bedra, převzít

It was always considered necessary for a man to shoulder the main burden of work at a farm the size of ours.

Who, to come to my point, is to shoulder the responsibility?

The task will undoubtedly fall heaviest on Andre Fontaine, who with the death earlier this summer of the newspaper’s founder Hubert Beuve-Mery, has to shoulder the burden alone. I look around, he says, and there is no one there behind.

výška po ramena

Stand upright with the arms bent and the dumb-bells at shoulder height. Slowly press vertically until the arms are straight.

Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height, knuckles upward, elbows at your sides.

When dropping arms, continue movement to extend arm sideways to shoulder height. Swing down and forward rhythmically to shoulder height; and repeat leg exercises.

zatnout pěsti

Stand with the feet shoulder-width apart and clench your fists, holding your arms by your sides.

Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height, knuckles upward, elbows at your sides. Open your fists.

Time it so the breath runs out as the arms reach full stretch, then breathe in through your nose and at the same time, start to clench your fists and bend your elbows so that they are again near your shoulders, elbows down.

odstrčit koho lokty, prodírat se

If my wife manages to elbow her way past me to the book first, she’s immediately led astray by extras like free use of private beach.

Numbers of those he excoriated had been encouraged into the professions by business parents and that for an entire decade the Establishment had been elbowed aside by the Thatcher appointments policy.

The current had already sucked us out into the centre of the river, and we were gathering speed downstream. I elbowed Karen unceremoniously aside and grabbed the paddle.

They elbowed and fought and gave each other tongue-sandwiches, and spat at passers-by and in each other’s faces.

zpevněná krajnice

I saw a child walking along the hard shoulder.

Lord Romsey, of Hampshire, found himself issued with a £40 fixed penalty and a severe ticking-off after he drove on to the hard shoulder to join the M271 near Southampton .

Colin, of Exeter , later saw a police car following, pulled on to the hard shoulder and jumped out.

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.

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.

po kotníky (hluboký)

The only team who disdained such artifices were Fiji , who are used to playing in ankle-deep water.

Allen, ankle-deep in water and with no hope of carrying the ball forward, chalked up his 14th of the season when he unleashed a crashing 25-yard volley.

A large, lumbering man, who fumbled through the ankle-deep water without grace.