zaražený

While some people become tongue-tied others cannot stop talking.

The schoolteacher realized that his guests were tongue-tied in this strange place and, after a few openings had brought no more than murmurs.

Writing or speaking tasks which do not clearly specify the receiver make even native-speaking students tongue-tied, and not surprisingly, for we simply do not talk or write into vacuums. (BNC-B)

tnout do živého

At the Royal Ballet, whose dressing rooms they will be using, mention of the Russians touches a raw nerve. It’s difficult for us to understand why everybody wants to talk about the Russians all the time, says ballerina Fiona Chadwick. Ballet isn’t only Russian.

Rhee issued a press statement raising publicly whether South Korea could rely on American assistance in the event of North Korean aggression. This touched a raw nerve and Muccio was instructed immediately to see Rhee and protest at this grave breach of ordinary diplomatic courtesy.

It’s none of your damned business! she snapped half-heartedly, yet his words struck a raw nerve and she almost winced in pain, because Ryan had only been ardent at first; after that, it had been she who had made the advances.

zkusit si něco

John had dreams of being a writer and had tried his hand at poetry, including an epic poem on the Battle of Largs.

Vincent went to him for drawing in the mornings, and in the evenings to try his hand at watercolours, as he had done before Christmas.

přivřít oči nad čím

Governments turn a blind eye to the thousands of poverty-stricken families that migrate to the forest every year.

Both his parents indulged him, particularly his mother. Whereas Nicolae preferred to turn a blind eye to his son's misdemeanors, which were so unlike his own abstemious and dedicated youth.

Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem. He would prefer to turn a blind eye to the problem of asylum seekers around the world.

nevyslyšet, ignorovat co

On these occasions the Chairman is wise to turn a deaf ear to the interruption.

At the end, between lengthy visits to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington and crippled with arthritis as a result of a youthful bicycle accident, he turned a deaf ear to opposition calls to resign after losing his majority.

The owners turned a deaf ear to such an expensive demand.

I can assure you that there are very great people at the bottom of the riot. Next day, when the mob was destroying the Catholic chapel in Moorfields, he apparently turned a deaf ear to requests for orders from the soldiers and the fire officers in attendance; and when the rioters’ work was done he uttered the mildest of rebukes.

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upoutat velkou pozornost

MacMillan does concede that the alienation of working class people from classical music is one that concerns him. He knows he is more likely to turn heads in Covent Garden than he is popping out for the papers in Jordanhill.

These days, we pamper promising young sportsmen with premature praise, often with the best of intentions, and discover that an unearned reputation can be no less fatal. It can turn heads and destroy careers.

If a dress turned heads in the 1960s, it will still turn heads today.

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ohrnovat nos nad

The models too have a better attitude. They don't turn their nose up at a job for a lesser mag if their last assignment was for Elle or something.

The shops here are very good, but Dana is inclined to turn her nose up at anything outside London or Paris .

přesvědčovat, přemlouvat koho

I think we must twist his arm to see if he can repeat the trick in the longer time available in one of our winter talks.

Who twisted his arm to make him admit that? she demanded incredulously.

I did not have to be persuaded to come and see you. No one twisted my arm. (BNC-B)

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.

víc hlav víc ví

The basic assumption is that “two heads are better than one” and that together, in groups, innovative solutions can be found.

The use of experts should become part of the organisational culture - with emphasis on the building of expert teams if possible, (i.e. two heads are better than one).

This dual approach often works, proving that two heads are better than one. Likewise, one's workmate can take awkward calls, e.g. My colleague is not in today, I’m afraid. (BNC-B)

rázný, robustní

My back, my great white back was scored with thirty or forty sharp red welts, regularly patterned as if I’d slept on a bed of nails. Taking a two-fisted grip on my spare tyre, I was able to wrench round some flesh and get a good look at one of these bloodless wounds.

Barnes, moving wide to the left, at last got over a telling cross but Ferdinand completely missed the ball in front of goal. Carlton Palmer drove forward to bring a two-fisted save from Benedettini and the goal-keeper followed up with another save from a Ferdinand header.

Then, quite unexpectedly, he took a clubbing right hand to the head and lost complete co-ordination. He did not react but lay back grasping the top rope. Jones mounted a quick two-fisted assault and the title changed hands in those brief, dramatic seconds. Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure.