sekat dobrotu, vyhýbat se problémům

Understand me, Mr Millet? What I know of Moscow is that you keep your nose clean and do the work you’ve set out to achieve, and that way there’s no hassle. I’ll tell you this.

Life was a deadly game in which you had to keep your cards close to your chest and your back to the wall, your eyes open and your nose clean in order not to end up in the gutter with your hat in your hand.

But our Jack hadn’t kept his nose clean, being the sort of bloke who was born with somebody else’s silver spoon in his fist if not his mouth.

lézt krkem, štvát, jít na nervy

He was the sort of bowler you couldn't get the ball off even when he'd been hit all round the field. This boy Chapple strikes me as having that sort of heart. It's the temperamental ones that get up my nose.

The confrontation with De Niro came in the foyer of London’s Savoy Hotel. I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box office draw.

I feel I must write to you concerning your interview with Tony MacMahon about Irish traditional music. I agree with a lot of what he said but one point he repeatedly made got up my nose.

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snažit se uškodit jinému a přitom ublížit sám sobě

For his part, Bernard is firm that he has already quit. However, he seems aware (Maybe I’m cutting off my nose to spite my face) that the market for idiosyncratic columns combining aspects of the upbeat worldviews of Samuel Beckett, Serge Gainsbourg and Victor Meldrew could not be described as bullish.

A social charter for the world may sound a good idea but it would have the opposite effect to what is intended, one British government source said yesterday. We would be cutting off our nose to spite our face.

Wimbledon were outclassed and, more surprisingly, outfought. Not even a typically robust return from Squadron Leader Jones whose three - match suspension was a case of trying to bite off a nose to spite your face, could inspire Joe Kinnear’s desperately depleted ranks. Having four centre-halves out injured doesn't help.

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.

svalovec

My friend Kevin, muscleman and minicab driver, says the lads would be out rioting for Willy now if it wasn’t tipping down with rain the whole time.

Sylvester Stallone, 46, says he is flattered that a spoof of his Rambo films is being made. Charlie Sheen, who will play a dim-witted muscleman in the film, Hot Shots 2, said: I’d be flattered if a spoof was made of one of my movies.

MUSCLEMAN Arnold Schwarzenegger has secretly fought crippling pain with acupuncture and herbal medicine. Years of pumping iron have taken their toll on the 45-year-old’s body.

přitlouci, připevnit

He found it necessary to nail up his bed-room windows with many plies of blanket, and thus to allow day and night to glide unnoted past, for all was dark.

The windows which had been nailed up as an anti-escape measure were thick with steam, and water was pouring down the panes.

Hell was a wooden arch with a cloth tunnel behind it and a simple catch holding shut the green eye. It smoked because there was a length of tarry rope nailed up behind the gullet which Lucie set alight before going on stage.

vypátrat, přesně zjistit

John Wrench does much to nail down the specific ways in which employment opportunities are much narrower for the black kid seeking apprenticeships in industry.

There is an aimless air of insubordination ready with spurious justification and impossible to nail down.

Any attempt to nail down individuals with the aid of rules and collective values seems doomed to vague and complex generalities.

In turn, these two characteristics permit hierarchy to meet four of any organization’s fundamental needs: to add real value to work as it moves through the organization, to identify and nail down accountability at each stage of the value-adding process.

najednou

By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80. Not paying on the nail could be extremely expensive.

I’m really glad that Jeff Beck and Joe Satriani found the Nigel Tufnel article so brilliant; I bet they paid their £1.80 on the nail when they got the magazine.

I was perhaps the only one who knew he was doing it for Duke. He brought the dog in every two or three days and paid on the nail.

uhodit hřebíček na hlavičku, strefit se

A less than shattering experience simply won’t pass muster in this of all Shostakovich symphonies. In an unusually perceptive liner note, Robert Layton hits the nail on the head when he says ` It is the exercise of true symphonic discipline that removes the Tenth from the private world to the universal. Quite so.

Moving on, and if I may say so, you have hit the nail on the head with your reference to the registration and its rarely stated function to boost the circulation of the LTA’s own magazine.

I’ve been having some quite intelligent guesses but no one’s hit the nail on the head. This is the number of the site. Because each site has a number and could you have a guess at how many excavations? Yes? More than seven.

tvrdý, bezcitný

I’m here strictly for business and being dissected does not appeal to me at all. If you want my real character I’ll tell you. I can fight for whatever I want and I’m hard as nails.

Both pictured a glamorous brunette, at least a dozen years older than herself. Beautiful but hard as nails, she’d thought then.

It was easy to see why any man would be beguiled by the woman, Lindsey found herself thinking. She was beautiful, with an air of fragility which, for all she suspected it hid a character as hard as nails, yet was guaranteed to bring out the male protective instinct.

kousat si nehty

It was the middle of the week when the Marui Pipeline Masters should have been on and wasn’t that I ran into Pottz in D'Amicos. The north wind was still blowing, Randy Rarick was still biting his nails, and surfers patrolled the Kam Highway , boards poking out of jeeps, strapped to cars, balanced on bicycles, searching in vain for rideable waves.

This fellowship does not of course embrace Rome ; in Pilgrim’s Progress, Christian encounters Giant Pope, old and biting his nails because he can not get at the pilgrims, and mumbling to them.

His mother had been singing with a company playing in a northern seaside town and he had lain on his bed in the boarding house, biting his nails, sunk under a terrible inertia.

hřebík do rakve

For Doctor Who this was a sad loss. Not only was it a loss to the series of Malcolm Hulke for a good many years, it was also a nail in the coffin of the show’s bid to be genuinely educative.

In it Tobin said he needed a bit of cash, a loan. He’d tried everywhere else in Swindon, and if he told the Inland Company, it would be a nail in the coffin.

Government funding for Mar Lodge’s future through Scottish Natural Heritage couldn’t be agreed to because it would be a nail in the coffin to admit that the present deer forest system is at the root of the most serious problems for the Cairngorms.

začít něco dělat, vytáhnout ruce z kapes

If they don’t get their finger out, they will lose almost all their business to the direct trade.

Our Dutch correspondent Remi Ebus pulls his finger out (of the dyke) to reveal the latest PD developments.

On the golf club one if you’ve really got your finger out and you’re known well enough you could you could do one in day.

omotat si kolem prstu

Was it perhaps partly that Mr Mandela, did she get the feeling, was pulling strings, leading the government along? Nelson Mandela is twisting them around his little finger.

Spencer had been spoiled, treated for far too long as a baby and he had grown up knowing how to twist his mother around his little finger.

This situation would be one humdinger of a funny story to tell his city friends over a drink or two - and perhaps to boast to Corosini that he’d wrapped her around his little finger with a few husky phrases and a glimpse of his superlative body.

ukázat prstem na koho, kárat, vinit koho

Trading in Bunzl was fast and furious, volumes topping 6m as the market quote firmed a penny to 94p. Dealers pointed the finger at Credit Lyonnais Laing, which has been chasing the stock for a fortnight and whose paper and packaging expert, Henry Poole, has spotted the company’s recovery potential.

Ego is desperate to deny and avoid responsibility. Whatever goes wrong in our lives, it will point the finger at others - our parents, our boss, our partner or ex-partner, our children, God, fate, the government.

These steps included maligning your dead wife as a criminal drugs dealer. Green had also pointed the finger at his wife’s lover Stuwart Skett.