nechat proklouznout mezi prsty

This really is committee work but I, it does occur to me that mention it that erm, if in our advertising we point out that we have a car park attendant and if that car park attendant were to let one slip through his fingers, we may well then be liable to be sued by the person.

Walker placed the header, but Salmon wasn’t going to let the match slip through his fingers.

Dave Cottrell let the prestigious Tillman Trophy slip through his fingers when he shot an 82 in the final round of the 72 hole open scratch event at Royal Liverpool last weekend.

nezkřivit ani vlas, ani se nedotknout

You needn’t worry any more, because you arouse nothing in me and haven’t done for many a year. I wouldn’t want to lay a finger on you.

She was not deterred. Crew indeed! He wouldn’t dare lay a finger on any of us.

My dad always brought me up saying you never lay a finger on a woman, never ever.

She turned, eyes flashing. I detest you. Don’t you ever lay a finger on me again, or, so help me, I’ll see you live to regret it!

mít prsty ve všem, do všeho se plést

He’s a developer in those parts and he’s trying to get his finger in the pie.

Recognizing that, when several agencies have a finger in the pie of, say, biotechnology, it is prudent that there should be a committee to coordinate their spending.

I said well what I’m feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said.

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pokleknout (obřadně)

Sardinia is a land whose past is riddled with bloody brigandry and often inexplicable feuding; a land which at various times in the past has bowed the knee to such untoward arrivals as the Vandals and the Goths (not to mention the supreme midfield general of his day, Napoleon Bonaparte).

Seru completed the Fijian try-count while Scott Pierce clawed one back for the bemused Kiwis. Pierce, having bowed the knee once, decided to do so again after the game when he proposed to girlfriend Jane Harris under the posts.

He transformed himself into an heroic king of England , and the theatrical court bowed the knee. He played Henry V in February 1949 on his beloved BBC radio, the home of the Word and poetry and all that mattered.

v představách

I see her in my mind’s eye always in a Fair Isle jersey.

Occasionally she made rolled-up pancakes, and stuffed omelettes, and steak pies with lovely gravy: I have in my mind’s eye a picture of her, sitting in a corner with some child on her lap, and the usual dreamy expression on her face.

As he spoke, the teacher saw Prince Richard in his mind’s eye and recalled the authority in the imperious carriage of the boy's small head on his narrow but habitually braced shoulders.

otevřít oči

It is through patient persuasive reasoning together with voluntary suffering that they must seek to melt the heart of his opponent and open his eyes to the truth.

Daughter of the Queen Igrayne and half-sister to King Arthur, she revealed to him the intrigue between Lancelot and Guinevere by giving him a magic draught which opened his eyes to the perfidy.

Oh, you’ve repaid him: you’ve opened his eyes to things that’ve been under his nose, and he couldn’t see the wood for the trees.

pečlivě dohlédnout

Keep your lines straight and taut and your dogs will go faster. Keep one eye on them at all times to avoid problems.

One of the few senior front-benchers with experience of government, he has been keeping one eye on the national campaign, chairing almost all the party 's London campaign press conferences, and another on his marginal Copeland constituency, traveling by hired plane to Cumbria every weekend.

There were a hundred questions still to be asked and answered, but at this speed and in this noise speech was impossible. I hung on, keeping one eye on Neil in case I could help him, and the other on Stormy Petrel.

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na první pohled

On the face of it, the Friend 3 seems the model least likely to benefit from flexibility - the thick stem interferes little with the working of the cams, both designs have the same strength rating

She spent her time shopping, reading women’s magazines, listening to pop music and watching television. On the face of it, she and Prince Charles had very little in common when they re-met in 1979. Quite apart from the intellectual and educational differences, they did not even share the same hobbies.

The significance of these comparatively simple provisions on open enrolment should not be overlooked. On the face of it they may appear to do little more than give effect to the government’s consistent promise to maximize the opportunities for parental choice in the education system.

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utrhnout se na koho, utrhnout někomu hlavu (přen.)

The biggest concern of the executioner, a man named Billington, was that the now quivering bulk of a fifteen stone woman would snap her head off as the rope took up the slack on the trip through the trapdoor.

The silly idiot is going to shout some sort of stupid abuse at her and she’ll bite his head off!

She was some girl! Not two minutes in his company and she was biting his head off. Now she didn’t want to go to an expensive restaurant in the West End .

skončit s něčím, zastavit co, hodit pod stůl

If it gets any worse, I’ll knock it on the head. The time has come for me to get it sorted out

I told the others, we either write some new songs and start behaving like a proper band again or knock it on the head, this time for good'.

He'll need daily blood tests, and we’ll have to watch for any respiratory or renal involvement. But I 'm pretty sure we’ll be able to knock it on the head.

pochopit co

It felt like I was inside and part of a huge virtual reality machine. I couldn’t quite get my head around the fact that this vast underground world existed, going on and on underground with chambers, tunnels, streams and pools, all underneath hills, roads and houses.

But I remember Puzznic very fondly as a game that I could actually get my head around (it’s very flexible you know); even a thicko like me can understand the concept of joining corresponding icons together.

I just can’t get my head around this idea of defining oneself by one’s genitals. I don’t see how you can describe yourself by saying what your sexual orientation is.

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navádět koho

Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years, but she bit back her words, fearing that the suggestion, were she to make it, might put the idea into his head. Let it suffice for the present that he thought he’d been silly to nurture romantic thoughts about his first love.

She was a witch, then, because he had never before in his life done such a thing with a girl in the street. She must have put the idea into his head herself: pinned it onto the back of his mind, like one of her flaming hairpieces.

That’s Dora all over, interrupted Rose with a sniff. Once she gets an idea into her head, wild horses won’t shift it.

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vyhrotit, vyvrcholit

The debate on the defence section of the party’s policy review report, Britain in the World, brought to a head the anger felt in sections of the party over Neil Kinnock’s shift away from unilateralism.

The crisis came to a head on 27 June 1961 , when the British Embassy in Baghdad reported the movement of Iraqi troops and tanks from the capital to Basra .

Matters have come to a head with the publication of a new and more detailed insurance group rating system which insurers say will enable them to pinpoint the higher risk models more accurately.

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ztratit hlavu

I’m not going to lose my head and try and rush out at the first chance.

He smiled, stroking her cheek. But if you’re afraid I’ll lose my head once we’re alone together, by all means bring a chaperon.

They said he’d lost his head and started shooting

řvát na celé kolo

So much for experience. Tony races past, laughing his head off. Give us a lift, you miserable bastard.

I haven’t seen him since they took him away, screaming his head off, with Jonathan Johns telling everybody gathered round that it was all my fault, blooming unfair because I can’t help it if Pitt has the kind of bones that break easily, can I?

He was screaming his head off about the war and the Russians. He was all for sending Gladstone over to the bloody Russians.

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