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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.

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?

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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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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tajně

Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor, in a drab overcoat, let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle, keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless.

One young representative, Colin Mason, a computer systems manager from Streatham, who branded environmental controls as socialism by the back door, was gently advised by the Secretary of State to read the Tory philosopher Edmund Burke.

The similarities are made more comprehensible in the 1930 essay, Baudelaire, where he sees Baudelaire's Satanism as an attempt to get into Christianity by the back door.

It would impute to Parliament an intention to import the convention into domestic law by the back door.

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je to kradené (zboží)

They need frequent renovation, says Brian Miller, Barrow & Hepburn's managing director. They sometimes look as if they've fallen off the back of a lorry.

He was only 18 years old, but was making quite a market on the side in watches and jewellery that he would jokingly claim had fallen off the back of a lorry.

They clearly distinguished between stealing from shops and stealing from houses. A number might buy a personal hi-fi they suspected came off the back of a lorry, but would never purchase goods burgled from a family.

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ustoupit do pozadí, hrát druhé housle

Party members and SA men, who in 1933 had seen themselves as posing a radical, populist alternative to the conservative Reichswehr, now took a back seat and simply provided the setting for the triumphant reception of young officers of the Wehrmacht, heroes home on leave from the Front recounting tales of stirring deeds which had earned them the Ritterkreuz.

Until this improves, it's likely that Russia will take a back seat for Western investment. Instead, countries such as the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Hungary and Poland , where conditions are more conducive to good business strategies, are likely to scoop up the funds.

Once again, community care was to take a back seat while the hospital services received the main attention. There are a few District Health Authorities who are already grasping the nettle and beginning to work closely with their local authority colleagues.

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na konci světa

Once Bernie and I dragged right across town to a pub in the back of beyond in North London because we'd seen a gig advertised there featuring a band called The Teenage Rebels.

The train from the Back of Beyond is about to arrive at the Middle of Nowhere. A week out of Moscow across Siberia and five time zones later you somehow land up in landlocked Mongolia.

She was appalled at the idea of living in the wilds, as she put it. To expect her to bury herself in the back of beyond, away from all her friends with just Penry Vaughan for company, constituted adequate grounds for divorce in her view.

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být odložen na později

He wants the matter to be put on the back burner until the Republic have taken another important step towards next year's USA finals.

Hornet's Richard Wolfenden points out that the company has not been liquidated but put on the back burner until production can be resumed abroad with lower costs and overheads.

Ratners thought this through a couple of years ago and then found itself locked into the game of pushing price to keep volumes moving and everything was put on the back burner.

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znát někoho/ něco jako své boty

You should learn your river and your places like the back of your hand, a senior officer said. I mean I used to. I could have at one stage recited to you every discharge from the estuary upstream for fifty miles on the north bank of the river, in order.

You must know the moor like the back of your hand. I know it pretty well.

Mapping seems to be rather neglected by many people but I reckon that it is vital if you are to get to know a water like the back of your hand. Cameras and notebooks eliminate the need for a Mastermind memory and confer the vital ingredient of confidence which is so necessary for a concerted attempt at big fish.

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Ty pomůžeš mně a já tobě.

He hesitated, a cunning look suddenly coming into his eyes. The thing is, just occasionally, you might listen to me. In this case I know what I'm talking about. And, after all, you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours - that's what business is about, they tell me.

Ty mne i ya tebe, people said, a knowing smile on their faces. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. It was the essential corruption of an under-privileged people. It worked on all levels.

Here the guiding motto was: you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours - a process to which Malinowski usually referred in more dignified language as reciprocity or give and take.

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když se (kdo) nedívá, za zády koho

Of course, you must make sure you protect the baby from a toddler who pinches or slaps or tries to tip her out of the pram when your back is turned.

He is often so busy that the less powerful males are able to disappear into a corner and copulate with his favourite females while his back is turned.

They are quite happy to question you, though, and are not averse to having a look through your personal items when your back is turned.

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rozčilovat koho

Seems a good idea on the whole, but whatever you do, don't go writing to that ruddy man at the tax office any more or you'll get his back up.

Now I must admit my first thoughts of it were it really gets my back up for some reason or other. I don't know whether anybody else feels like that but I do.

Did I tell you about that bloke the other week who got, the one who just cocky with me? Ooh God! He really got my back up!

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dát někomu ránu pod pás

It was David Knell, one of my colleagues. I've been stabbed in the back. Everyone stopped laughing and looked at me. What do you mean?

And the association of republicanism and parliamentarianism with defeat all fostered the belief that Germany had been stabbed in the back. Hitler exploited this resentment with great success. The fragile democratic institutions of Weimar were not able to survive the sense of defeat, the recession and Hitler's onslaught.

It is useless trying to co-operate with people who can not keep their word or have any intention of keeping it. Nationalists supported the Wilson/Callaghan governments for years, only to be stabbed in the back in the end. They were then blamed for allowing a Thatcher victory, when Labour's downfall hinged on a refusal to implement its own policies.

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dělat něco hravě, levou rukou

She said they did everything in teams, for the honour, and what was the good of that, when she could leave them all standing with one arm tied behind her back?

As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests, however, it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back.

She was so used to this sort of conversation that she could, as it were, verbally handle it with one hand tied behind her back.

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