pátek, 10. května 2024, 13.39
Stránky: OpenMoodle
Kurz: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Slovník: THE HUMAN BODY
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take a back seat

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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take heart

čerpat odvahu

Cambridge can take heart from Goldie’s substantial victory over Isis .

But we can take heart from the fact that, apart from Germany , Britain enjoys the greatest choice and variety of beers in Europe .

My lord, I shall endeavour to take heart from your assurances in regard to Lord Hastings - I derive much comfort from your undertaking in respect of this my younger son.

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take something in hand

vzít si co na starost

Their sense of tradition is also very strong and instead of dying out in 1951 when enthusiasm was beginning to wane a little, it was revitalised when Stanley Robshaw took it in hand and set it firmly on its feet again. He had always been involved to some extent.

I conceive many People would be happy with an Art of this kind or at least it would be useful to those who die abroad and are brought back home: I often used to talk of embalming but never seriously took it in hand till the year before last, which to this time is well preserved.

The local policeman took it in hand, and nobody grumbled, if he gave them a good clout.

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take something to heart

vzít si co k srdci

But don't take it to heart if I don't follow your advice.

Diana took the criticism to heart, avidly read what was being said about her and became depressed and despondent.

So it is also the diet to choose if you have sensibly taken to heart the well-established benefits of reducing fat intake.                         

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take to one’s heels

prásknout do bot

Taking precipitously to his heels and hurriedly joining the Coldstream Guards, he eventually settled in East Anglia , where he married and where his literary son George was born in 1803.

As Mr Patterson, 22, pointed out his attackers to police Sharpe took to his heels. Sharpe was only about 15 yards away when I moved towards him and he started running,

One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker. He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks, through a council estate, finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued.

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take/be a weight off/ a load off one’s mind

spadnout kámen ze srdce komu

I will of course let my client know that Mr. Makaroupides takes full responsibility for this and that will take a weight off his mind.

And Clarke admitted: It's a weight off my mind. I've been waiting for four or five games, so it's a bit of a relief.

You said nothing to offend me, Mr. Cunningham. You mean it? That's a load off my mind, believe me.

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talk to someone heart-to-heart/ have a heart-to-heart

promluvit si od srdce

Mr. Takeshita flew to Washington for a heart-to-heart chat with President Bush. Each man must struggle to convince the party and the public that he is the right choice to guide Japan in the coming years.

When we lost 5-0 at Liverpool a couple of weeks ago we all got together and had a heart‑to-heart. We sorted a few things out then and now we have turned the corner.

Perhaps, now that Alison was at least going to become an adoptive mother she would be able to have a long heart-to-heart with her on the subject; although Celia knew that she would be reluctant, even ashamed, to reveal her innermost feelings.

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tear/ pull one's hair out

rvát si vlasy

The latest development is a drug called clomipramine which has the endearing quality of reducing the desire to pull your hair out when under stress.

A Tory friend of mine who has been trying to write nice things about the Conservative campaign has been tearing his hair out in desperation, not just because they are doing so badly - but because they deserve to.

Look at him, lord of all he surveys, calm, controlled, in total command of himself. Anyone else would be tearing his hair out, confronted by a pack of jabbering foreigners, but does Feargal?

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thigh-boot/ thigh boot

vysoká holínka (rybářská obuv)

Well, not really, Frank. Miss Whiplash was in fact dressed up in thigh boots and a tightly-laced bodysuit while seeing to the likes of you in her torture chamber.

You had to buy your own stuff, I bought a pair of thigh boots and they were all made with leather and he and I used to put neat's-foot oil on them and I could roll them down just like a b just like a boot.

Fashion was madly exciting: grannies happily wore miniskirts and platform thigh boots, while young girls wore button-up granny boots and Victorian-style, flower-printed dresses.

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throw one’s hand in

složit karty

His actions are never excessive, he can sleep with a good conscience, he has purpose and never throws in his hand in adversity.

The only point the press reports missed was that Jim Prior was so unhappy that he almost threw in his hand and resigned.

His father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . Any idea of the reason? A quirk of temperament apparently. Didn’t like hospital work - couldn’t stand colleagues - any colleagues; he’s a loner.

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to one’s heart’s content

do sytosti, podle libosti

Windsor and I think Jack will go with the players who have done the job for him before, and once this trial is over and we have qualified he will experiment and experiment and experiment to his hearts content.

Now it was an established custom that we very often used to go out to a strip in the desert away from the camp where we could indulge in circuits and landings to our hearts content without being related to the hour by hour flying that went on at the Base camp.

Yes, I just want to have a look at, yes you can crawl under there to your hearts content! You can unplug that for the moment. I'm not really worried about it.

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to somebody’s face

přímo do obličeje komu

The English boy pointed to my face, unable to control his mirth. I must have looked like the mad ape that wandered the streets of our village with its gypsy owner. Their laughter so infuriated me that I began to have thoughts of revenge.

Kevin Brown took a private call in the embassy from one of his men. We may have hit paydirt, Chief, said the agent tersely. No more on an open line, boy. Get your ass in here fast. Tell me to my face.

I still get the comments. The only difference is that, now I’m somebody, they don’t say it to my face. But because they don’t say it to my face, it doesn’t mean to say I don’t still get them: now they say things behind my back.

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to the bare bones

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)

tongue in cheek

ironicky, poťouchle

The plot is more than faintly ludicrous but the music is Rossini at his most inspired - even when one suspects that he is writing with tongue in cheek.

In fact they did not speak French either, they spoke a sort of fractured German. But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and, with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle, seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving.

This way you don’t have to worry about ACUs, licences and doctors’ certificates. It’s tongue in cheek, we don’t take ourselves too seriously yet.

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tongue twister

jazykolam

A local woman, Mary Anning, made a living selling fossils from these rocks to collectors, and was immortalized in the tongue-twister She sells sea-shells on the seashore.

Nevertheless, that Kensington Stone is a fake as old and crooked as a left - handed corkscrew with knobs on. Trapped by a tongue twister Caitlin Moran... or why the St Etienne lads may become Spud for a spell while Sarah goes solo.

Pausing only for a brief tongue-twister - she did that very well, Karen, where your tongues circle each other tantalizingly, barely touching - we gave chase along the footpath which runs through the meadows bordering the river.

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