poplácat koho po ramenou

She patted me on the shoulder. Cheer up.

She patted my shoulder. Hey, don’t knock it. This sounds all right, you know.

He recalled his uncles, standing behind them, patting him on the shoulder affectionately.

poskytovat čemu pouze slovní podporu

For all these reasons some economists have for years advocated this approach to monetary policy and during the 1970s a number of governments began at least to pay lip service to it by announcing target rates of growth for the money supply over the coming year.

Crime is a big issue not just an issue of sentencing or the courts, but something that must be looked at away from politics. Politicians pay lip service to crime.

All unions have good policies on racial equality at national level but very little is put into practice at local levels. The picture is no different in Cleveland . Most of the unions pay lip service to equal rights and racial equality for black members.

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nechat se oškubat

There’s definitely money to be made by running an Outward Bound course. All you have to do is grow a beard and look rugged, take a bunch of gullible kids from good homes, make their parents pay through the nose to let them sleep in bunks and eat beans, and then pretend that mundane things are difficult or unusual.

Classes were no longer in the afternoon and evening, after work. They were work, and the students, who were paying through the nose for them, were grim, resentful and bloody-minded.

The only work I could find was with Clive’s main sharp-end competitor, a school offering short courses to businessmen on company accounts. They paid through the nose for one-to-one intensive tuition from qualified experts supported by sophisticated resources incorporating the latest technology.

Amazingly, though, foreign tycoons pay through the nose to hear Lady Thatcher spout her economic theories - even though, back home, businesses and homeowners are still suffering because of them.

tahat rozumy z koho

Unsurprisingly, it was a subject that frequently cropped up at the dinner table, especially when visitors were present and Sir Gregory was able to pick their brains on the latest news from Rome , Paris or Madrid .

That's one thing Ben said though, which was quite useful, he said get some people down pick their brains.

A prosthetist who had a lower limb amputation himself stated: They [patients] want to pick your brain for every bit of knowledge they can get. They're very interested to find out how you coped.

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hrát podle sluchu, bez not

I have some sheet music which belonged to my mother... But I can only play by ear these days.

But I have a theory that if you have two musicians, both trained and able to play anything that is put before them, but only one of them has the ability to play by ear as well, then he or she will be able to project more life, beauty and expression than the other.

Montaine and Jean-Claude inherited their love of music from their mother. They sang together, played by ear on the old upright that someone from the big house had thrown out and they had retrieved.

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improvizovat

Until we can get something definite sorted out, we are having to play it by ear.

Eubank has no special game plan tonight and says: I'll play it by ear and in accordance to Thornton 's fighting spirit.

Some people want to know what their treatment is going to be, but you can tell at the same time they definitely don't want to know the name of their condition. You just have to play it by ear.

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ukázat prstem na koho, kárat, vinit koho

Trading in Bunzl was fast and furious, volumes topping 6m as the market quote firmed a penny to 94p. Dealers pointed the finger at Credit Lyonnais Laing, which has been chasing the stock for a fortnight and whose paper and packaging expert, Henry Poole, has spotted the company’s recovery potential.

Ego is desperate to deny and avoid responsibility. Whatever goes wrong in our lives, it will point the finger at others - our parents, our boss, our partner or ex-partner, our children, God, fate, the government.

These steps included maligning your dead wife as a criminal drugs dealer. Green had also pointed the finger at his wife’s lover Stuwart Skett.

strkat nos do čeho

He was wrong whatever he did. If he spoke out, he was accused of poking his nose into matters he knew nothing about.

Or maybe they resented a stranger poking his nose into their affairs?

They're hardly going to take very kindly to a woman poking her nose into their affairs, are they?

The sun comes up each morning, the Pope's a Catholic, and Donna Fratelli's still sticking her nose into other people's business.

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zbystřit pozornost, nastražit uši

Hosanna could see it too, and would prick up his ears as he sat on her lap and focus on Gabriel moving around by the sink or fixing the green curtains at the window.

Your eyes and your ears do not co-ordinate; it is very much like the sensation of a fever. The chimneys are bewildered, the roofs, slippery and uncertain. Dormer windows prick up their ears like terriers.

There was a studied casualness in his tone that made Melissa prick up her ears. We’re next-door neighbours.

No, I’ve got three different letters and one that’s the same as another I was new before I met you Complete the film title, prick up er, oh start again, prick up your ears, bottom or pantyhose?

soukromý detektiv

This was the pilot for the Harry O detective series. Janssen plays a private eye who, while investigating a murder, gets emotionally involved with the prime suspect.

Emilianow is an American private eye who tests the fidelity of potential marriage partners usually men, surprise, surprise by offering them irresistible temptation.

He said the PR man detailed a series of allegations he wished the private eye to investigate. The allegations were that illicit payments had been made by Boeing, or possibly General Electric... to secure the contract.

utahovat si z koho, dělat si legraci z koho

The other children pulled his leg and generally teased him about what he had seen but the child strenuously defended his story.

She was pulling his leg. She always gave as much as she got, more, he should say. And so of course they started pulling his leg then see? And he said he said no, are you gonna watch Cardiff City lose again.

There is no letter for you, Billy, she says, handing them back and shutting her eyes. I think she’s pulling my leg, so I ask her again. There’s nothing, she says. I want her to check through them again.

nedat nic najevo, předstírat klid

But the company and its advisers put a brave face on the outcome yesterday.

The Government tried to put a brave face on the mess. A Downing Street spokesman said: We don't use words like crisis.

navádět koho

Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years, but she bit back her words, fearing that the suggestion, were she to make it, might put the idea into his head. Let it suffice for the present that he thought he’d been silly to nurture romantic thoughts about his first love.

She was a witch, then, because he had never before in his life done such a thing with a girl in the street. She must have put the idea into his head herself: pinned it onto the back of his mind, like one of her flaming hairpieces.

That’s Dora all over, interrupted Rose with a sniff. Once she gets an idea into her head, wild horses won’t shift it.

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poukázat na co, definovat co, určit co

What adds to my confusion is that I can’t put my finger on any obvious reason why the Wallaby train seems to have derailed.

It’s difficult to put my finger on exactly why my response is somewhat cool.

I was sorry to see Rocky go and I would like him back. I can’t put my finger on what’s gone wrong. (BNC-B)

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