zlá krev

"If there is bad blood between you and them," said I, to soften it off a little. (Google)

But don't imagine to yourself that I make myself bad blood on that account. (Google)

If we had not been all nearly on an equality in the matter of wages, these distinctions would have made bad blood among us. (Google)

třísknout pěstí (do stolu)

Graham banged his fist angrily on the table. A couple at the next table scowled at him but looked away when he glared back at them.

The old Monsieur le Président, who had presided so long in his own way at the top, shouted and banged his fist before leaving the room.

What he was doing - when that crazy mare put three fucking bullets in him. Go on, call them. He banged his fist down on the table and glared at Kellerman.

házet hrách na stěnu

It was like banging your head against a brick wall to attempt to fight against Movement Orders.

Although she was terribly fond of the children she found that working with them was like banging her head against a brick wall.

I must admit that I got fed up with pursuing it and I think it's like banging your head against a brick wall in the end. Yes. Didn't really have the energy to pursue it.

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být jedno ucho (bedlivě naslouchat)

I listened, all ears, to hear what she was saying.

I'm listening, Jaq shouted. I’m all ears.

D' you want to hear? I’m all ears.

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pozorně sledovat

And there was too much evidence of the view that one more heave for power will do. It won’t. With all eyes having been on the Government, Labour can get away with one conference like this one.

Such are the changes infiltrating society that now long-serving criminals are helping supply the soundtrack to the big throwdown. But while all eyes are on the hot-spots of Eastern Europe the real action is taking place in clubland. You don’t have to get stuck into Sky to hear the cry Burn Hollywood Burn.

The FT-SE 100 Index shed around 4 points at 2717.9 at the close but over the next few weeks all eyes will be on the pound.

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být na ostří nože

Of course native Siberians sometimes fought among themselves, just as the various national and religious communities of Europe were often at each other's throats.

The Socialist Party had not only suffered its worst election defeat in 25 years but also given every appearance of being in the process of disintegration. Its leaders were at each other's throats.

If the rest of the media were anything to go by, you'd assume that most women were at each other's throats. Especially on the issue of maternal responsibility.

Two of France's proudest industries are at each other's throats over a perfume called Champagne unveiled by fashion house Yves Saint Laurent.

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být komu v patách

She heard him running down the stairs, problems at his heels. Not asleep. Just having a think.

He watched the last of the brothers slip away still awed and silent through the cloister, and followed with a glance the swirl of Robert Bossu’s crimson skirts as he crossed the court with his two attendants at his heels.

Mr. Henry Hawkes, a farmer residing at Hailing, in Kent, was late one evening at Maidstone market. On returning at night, with his dog, who was usually at his heels, he again stopped at Aylesford, and as is too frequently the case upon such occasions, he drank immoderately, and left the place in a state of intoxication.

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šlapat komu na paty, funět komu na záda

Most lord lieutenants are scarcely in jobs where they have employers breathing down their necks about time off, but there can be substantial day-to-day expenses.

Those moments when the heat is on, the chips are down and reality seems to be breathing down our necks.

Well with all those people breathing down his neck it's probably put him off.

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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?

lhát, jako když tiskne

I know enough about geophysics to say that these people are lying through their teeth when they claim they can eventually guarantee long-term safety underground.

You, Fernando Serra, are either lying through your teeth, putting on a brave face or you have the same loose sort of arrangement with your mistress as you accused me of having with Steve.

Their Liberal and Labour opponents, whose foreign policy clothes had been so comprehensively stolen, were reduced to assertions - unconvincing to most voters - that the Government was lying through its teeth. In fact, of course, it was.

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mlít z posledního, být v koncích

Charlie, is on his last legs, has been for years and, might as well have him put down, as that Nick keep saying, I think I’ll have to have him put down he, when he takes him for a walk he collapses..

The torch beam dimmed perceptibly. The battery, like the torch’s owner, was on its last legs.

Mother did all the cooking as well, and there was a problem in that department too because our oven was going home - that is to say, it was on its last legs - even before the war. But Mother did the best she could and made rabbit pies, apple pies, and obtained a very good recipe from Mrs Fawcett.

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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být na rozpadnutí

Dennis clambered out looking disgruntled. Bloody thing's on the blink.

What's the situation out there? All haywire. Your computers must be on the blink.

I must apologize for keeping you waiting, Miss Stanton, he said formally, indicating a chair and seating himself to face her across a big black desk. My telephone's on the blink.

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potázat se se zlou

His boss sent him off with a flea in his ear. The experience did much to colour his thinking. I got rather fed up with industry, he recalls.

Within Shell, Mr. Steere has a reputation for bluntness, a man who is likely to send away those riddled with worry and indecision with a flea in their ear. Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions is a phrase he likes to use.

Colin Firth’s Darcy finally spoke his mind after two weeks of staring in silence at Elizabeth (Jennifer Ehle) with a fire in his heart. Of course, she sent him off with a flea in his ear, outraged by his ungentleman - like manner of proposing, incensed by reports of his high – handedness.

vyzývavý pohled

Sisters don’t have that Things-Were-Just-Getting-Interesting look. What look’s that? You know - sort of bedroom eyes. Bee-stung lips? Lots of those. And sort of moving about inside her dress as though her bra was suddenly too tight. She could have been putting it on. (BNC-B)

Modelling is a multi-million-pound industry and something of a meat market. Ashton and others are in the business of selling bits of bootiful young women long legs, bedroom eyes, immaculate breasts, perfect bottoms and succulent visual slices of superb lips, hands and feet to anybody who will pay. (BNC-B)