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)

zachovat vážnou tvář

When I told the estate agents I wanted a flat in Soho, most of them had difficulty keeping a straight face but I wanted to live there and I persevered with it.

It is sometimes hard to keep a straight face when Terry gets into his stride on this subject.

I try and keep a straight face, but I can't help grinning at myself.

(BNC-B)

dávat pozor na, hlídat koho

Keep an eye on youngsters, and teach them to recognize danger too.

Our neighbors volunteered to keep an eye on the kids who were too absorbed in catching a tan and the biggest fish in the harbor.

She paid an extra dollar a week for Mrs. Benson to put Maria to bed and keep an eye on her, but somehow she didn't think that Mrs. Benson was all that reliable as a child‑watcher.

(BNC-B)

mít oči otevřené, pozorně sledovat koho, co

But part of the NCS programme is devoted to new materials, and Wood acknowledged that it would have to keep an eye open for new discoveries like the superconducting buckminsterfullerenes: synthetic chemists are almost certainly going to find new materials.

There was a secret list of useful persons who could be relied on to keep an eye open for promising young men.

We were conscious of the insecurity of our situation. I felt that hidden eyes must be observing us from behind bushes and tree-trunks. And we had to keep an eye open for police patrols.

pozorně sledovat dění, mít přehled, být ve střehu

(In my experience non-graduates, for instance, can find it very difficult to get above a certain level in some companies.) Keep your ear to the ground and mix with people from other departments and those who are in the know. Go along to social events and join in extra-curricular activities.

You can also talk to Jack’s agent. Graham Fearnley keeps his ear to the ground and you never know - he might tell us something.

If you’re in politics you have to cope with two sorts of people, the ones you can use, and the ones who want to use you. Father made sure he was well acquainted with both sorts. He kept his ear to the ground and he spent a lot of time in his office after hours.

odtrhnout oči od čeho

I was deeply conscious of his physical presence, so close and so disturbingly animal, almost electric in its restrained, pulsing sexuality. I tried to keep my eyes off his muscular thighs in their tight blue jeans.

Her red Golf was a frequent sight on the headland, her cottage had frequently met Iris eyes from the top storey of the mill. Now, physically close for the first time, he found it difficult to keep his eyes off her, living flesh and remembered image seeming to fuse into a presence both potent and disturbing.

And it's obvious that he is just crazy about you, honey. Why, he can hardly keep his eyes off you!

(BNC-B)

dávat si pozor na co, pozorně sledovat co

The village was in complete wilderness, our toilet a local bush - keeping our eyes peeled for lions!

Learn a little about the likely finds and you can add a valuable second income to your usual treasure hunting activities. As well as keeping their eyes peeled for surface coins and jewellery, beachcombers also look for non-metal items on their foreshore hunting grounds.

Keep your eyes peeled for bandits, there might be a few up tonight.

nevyjít ze cviku

Leonard was a very close observer, and collector, of this scene ; always keeping his hand in with his guitar, writing much of his early poetry to the sound of its music.

I chose that because I thought I would still be able to keep my hand in by writing the staff newspaper.

Having been trained in Institutional Management I still like to keep my hand in by catering for private functions such as weddings and christenings.

(BNC-B)

neztratit hlavu, zachovat klid

I learned from that game. If you keep your head and play it cool, you'll be fine.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs.

držet se nad vodou

The conference centre, in common with most of the others, will need a public subsidy to keep its head above water.

It hurt badly at first to lose my job but things have worked out reasonably well. I am keeping my head above water and that makes me one of the lucky ones.

As long as I earn enough to keep my head above water and to pay my way in life for the next twelve months, keep my family fed and watered, I'm OK.

(BNC-B)

sekat dobrotu, vyhýbat se problémům

Understand me, Mr Millet? What I know of Moscow is that you keep your nose clean and do the work you’ve set out to achieve, and that way there’s no hassle. I’ll tell you this.

Life was a deadly game in which you had to keep your cards close to your chest and your back to the wall, your eyes open and your nose clean in order not to end up in the gutter with your hat in your hand.

But our Jack hadn’t kept his nose clean, being the sort of bloke who was born with somebody else’s silver spoon in his fist if not his mouth.

zapojit do práce, zapřáhnout

This is his sort of course because he’s a grinder, who succeeded Faldo as champion. Now is the time for the golfer from Welwyn Garden City to put his nose to the grindstone once more. And he could again seal victory at the 11th.

We’ll do it again some time. Don’t bank on it, Luke interposed, before Merrill could speak. I intend to keep your nose to the grindstone, Rob. As a potential breadwinner, you’d better start concentrating on your career.

Oh, I know he’s a bit single-minded about Woodline; He keeps his nose to the grindstone and thinks everyone else should. But that’s probably because the firm was in a hell of a mess when he took over. Our father was a good designer, but he had no business sense.

Jen klid!

She gave Bunty a very sharp look. You'll miss your entrance, miss. Keep your hair on.

All right, all right, keep your hair on! It was quite a relief to hear Felicity lapse into the phraseology of Pinehurst days.

I won't tell him anything. Keep your hair on, girl, Nick said.

(BNC-B)

nepouštět si někoho k tělu

In reality, the relationship was a strained and sometimes comical mismatch, a 50‑year‑long saga of crossed purposes - with Yeats doing all the suffering and Maud forever striving to keep him at arm’s length.

Sliding into the warmth he had just left, inhaling the scent of him on the pillows, surrounded by his clothes, books and possessions, she could feel her resolve to keep him at arm’s length ebbing relentlessly away.

Mr. Smith’s notes to Cumber v. Wane, is not (as I conceive) that sort of benefit which a creditor may derive from getting payment of part of the money due to him from a debtor who might otherwise keep him at arm’s length, or possibly become insolvent, but is some independent benefit.

(BNC-B)

přešlapovat, nečinně a netrpělivě čekat

On the one hand I suspected a trap, but on the other the man was patently honest. I sat in the pie shop kicking my heels and pondering the problem.

And while Clough misses out again, it is understood that Blanc has a contract that will take him to French drama club Marseille in the summer. Clough has been left kicking his heels in his search to replace England defender Des Walker, who left on a £1.5 million cut-price deal to Italian giants Sampdoria in the summer.

While he had been kicking his heels yesterday he had spent an hour in a tiny bookshop in Curzon Street and had come away with a paperback edition of the Parsons Rosenberg and the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes’s anthology.