mýt si ruce (nad čím)

Before you wash your hands of the affair, find out if the lender or adviser is tied or independent.

That is the real failure of the Government's approach. They can not wash their hands of social problems and the incidence of crime.

They told their father that if he did marry her they would wash their hands of them.

stát na vlastních nohou

Nelly has fought to stand on her own two feet as a businesswoman – wife.

The story of the boy and his daddy, a dancer determined to help his son stand on his own two feet, is symbolically crass and excruciatingly sentimental.

Crawford is a woman who has always stood on her own two feet , and is highly unlikely to get down on her knees to a man ...

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dostat strach

I began to get cold feet, but these other two guys were totally positive and they were absolutely right.

It was obvious by September 1990 that Gorbachev was getting very cold feet about both economic reform and national self-determination within the Soviet Union.

Difficulties seemed inevitable and if the bank got cold feet, Taylor Woodrow would be finished. Nothing did go wrong, however.

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stát nohama pevně na zemi

We have, in short, to keep our feet on the ground, to get our facts right, and to remember that we are talking about the real world.

It was difficult to keep their feet on the ground when they read about themselves in the newspapers.

She tries to get me to do things around the house, like changing light bulbs and things like that. It keeps your feet on the ground, I think. (BNC-B)

zorientovat se, rozkoukat se

It is fair to say that both of them deserve time to settle: in the past I got it wrong and I was fortunate to get three years in which to find my feet.

At fifteen years old I started my drama course and I couldn't have been happier. It obviously took a while to find my feet with the group but when I had done I really started to enjoy myself.

I had recently stayed with him in Scotland : knowing him was a help, for I felt out of my milieu. Lord Airlie also went out of his way to help me find my feet.

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vykročit nesprávnou nohou

Dyson got off on the wrong foot with Morris from the very beginning, even though Morris politely stopped writing while Bob introduced them.

There doesn't seem to be anything to live for, she said. I got off on the wrong foot, and I'm never going to get it right now. It's too late.

I always seem to do my best when the big players are around on the big occasion, not at smaller tournaments like these. Montgomerie got off on the wrong foot by commencing with a trio of bogeys.

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mít toulavé boty

Jane tried to comfort Flora by telling her that her own two younger children had got itchy feet at sixteen too, and left school: her son had gone on to a sixth form college which he found highly satisfying.

He's getting itchy feet and will soon be back riding for trainers.

And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that's when I went to Liverpool.

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šlápnout na to

I'll tell him about that later. I should have just put my foot down and knocked him over.

I wasn't getting any respect, any money; I couldn't even get hold of Richard when I wanted to, so I decided to put my foot down and straighten things out

jít ve šlépějích koho

But the bulk of his beers come from Belgium, where some of Rex's happiest moments have been passed in breweries, sometimes following in the footsteps of Michael Jackson, who has graced the Cook's Delight annual beer tasting.

Mitsubishi is expected to be the next Japanese company to begin car manufacture in Europe following in the footsteps of Nissan, Toyota and Honda.

He could have followed in the footsteps of some of his more notorious predecessors, by gambling, drinking and scandalizing society.

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chodit kolem horké kaše

While it was clear that as long as unanimity or qualified majorities were required, it was possible, as several of the member states were to do, for states to drag their heels and delay a programme.

No doubt the rest of Europe will say yes to that, but the British Government will, as usual, drag their heels on such a development.

I am very sad that the Government - for the next few months, anyway - are trying to drag their heels and opt out of so many important aspects of what the Community is doing.

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cítit co v kostech

I had a feeling McCartney was reported as saying that what my friend told me was true. I could feel it in my bones. And I have something to back up my suspicions.

Then simply take my word for it, she said consolingly. You will see your prince again and be very close - I feel it in my bones!

It's all going to be perfect! I just know it! I can feel it in my bones!

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jablko sváru

France has a persistent trade deficit with Germany and this is sometimes a bone of contention between the two countries.

But Ilona's alter-ego remains a bone of contention between them. He accepts her porno past but demands from her a virtuous future.

If it failed to prove adequate to secure full employment, then changes in taxes to encourage private investment and consumption should be made, but the question of budget deficits remained a bone of contention.

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do základů

Taylor was down to the bare bones today when only 14 of his England squad took part in his first Bisham training session.

Let Me In, the song for Cobain, is stripped down to the bare bones of voice and abrasive guitar, chilling and unsettling in its raw intensity.

Silhouettes are crisp and clean - cut and fabrics are plush, yet it is the determined way in which designers have stripped down the look to the bare bones which makes it appear quite so elementary. (BNC-B)

mít komplex méněcennosti

Charmless Mark developed a chip on his shoulder because so many of the other boys were much richer than him. He always wanted to be a tycoon.

His background might have given him something of a chip on his shoulder; he was a Sephardi, an Israeli descended from Jews who came from Arab lands, rather than an Ashkenazi, the elite of Israel .

He had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he felt that other people who were not so good but who had the right background and connections had gotten ahead of him.

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stát bok po boku

We knew that the man who had been attacked was there, and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst, we saw them in the centre of the mirror, saw ourselves standing beside them.

Bereavement is the one battle in which people dice with a death that has already occurred in order to survive all the dangers of the loss and deprivation it brings, and it takes courage to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone who is in the thick of it.

And when home skipper Kepler Wessels, an Afrikaaner, completed a commanding century, blacks and whites stood shoulder to shoulder in the stands to applaud. (BNC-B)