zaměstnanci (lidé), kteří jsou nepotřební a mají být vyhozeni, "na odpis"

There's a lot of dead wood in the team which needs to be cleared out.(CIDI)

It`s time we brought these files up to date. We`ll start by throwing out all the dead wood. (English Idioms, Oxford)

The incoming chairman of a public company can swiftly dispose of dead wood, to arrange a board in sympathy with new policies. (BNC)

úmrtní list

The first thing that has to be done is to obtain a death certificate from a medical practitioner. (BNC)

He said the only details available, apart from a death certificate, had come from Mr Garrod's family. (BNC)

Copies of the death certificate can be purchased. (BNC)

rozsudek smrti, odsouzení na smrt

Gilmore received a death sentence. (LDCE)

Will she insist on a guilty verdict and mandatory death sentence? (BNC)

In December it was announced that 11 prisoners had been given the death sentence, commuted to life imprisonment. (BNC)

ztráty na životech (př. v bitvě)

More than 600 claimants die awaiting compensation Barlow Clowes' death toll rises. (BNC)

As the civil unrest continued, the death toll rose. (LDCE)

 Others set the death toll higher, at up to 1,000 fatalities. (BNC)

životu nebezpečné místo, zařízení atd.

Some of those secondhand cars are real death traps. (LDCE)

The whole house was a death trap with faulty gas fires, broken stairs, and bad wiring.(CIDI)

The road becomes a death trap in icy weather.(CIDI)

přání zemřít

He`s going out with Debbie - what does he have, a death wish? (LDCE)

He's a psychotic with some kind of death wish… spends his entire time screaming abuse. (BNC

Another way to have a death wish associated with the road; crossing it. (BNC)

závislák na drogách

The judge, who took just 45 minutes to decide on the sentences, said he accepted Fraser was a drug addict who had admitted what he had done. (BNC)

 What is the welfare of the drug junkie, under the influence of the drug? (BNC)

The experience was later dredged out of his subconscious when he played drug addict Lenny Bruce. (BNC)

smrtelné zranění

He got up, lifted her and carried her back to the bedroom despite her threats to do him a fatal injury if he didn't stop carting her about like a sack of old cabbages. (BNC)

 Peter Vanezis, a pathologist, told the hearing that the fatal injury was brain haemorrhaging caused by a 15-centimetre skull fracture. (BNC)

The fatal injury was a blow to the head, not a very heavy blow but the deceased had taken a substantial amount of alcohol in the hours before he suffered the injury, and the effect of alcohol is to increase the flow of blood to the brain so that, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. (BNC)

zakopaný pes, žába na prameny

After the exams, we had a great celebration party. The only fly in the ointment was that Patrick hadn`t passed. (English Idioms, Oxford)

The only fly in the ointment was my mother, who insisted on whispering through the first half of the show.(CIDI)

The fly in the ointment is that a boy saw you kissing Lola. (W.Magnuson, Eng.Idioms)

dráždivý, dávivý kašel

 A dry hacking cough and later a large quantity of thin watery or frothy mucus is expectorated. (BNC)

There was a noisy inhalation of smoke, followed by a hacking cough. (BNC)

An expedition to the bar of the Glue pot convinced him that, apart from a hacking cough and a tendency to tire easily, he was very much his old self. (BNC)

senná rýma

She gets really bad hay fever.(CALD)

Hay fever is really an allergy to pollen and the peak time is early June. (BNC)

Dr Cathy Read with the latest on the health front, from help for hay fever to odour-absorbent paint (BNC)

naslouchátko

I wear a hearing aid and only the other day I couldn't understand what my helper was saying. (BNC)

You will need to check that anyone wearing a hearing aid knows how to cope with it. (BNC)

I think he should get a hearing aid; it's easier than shouting all the time. (BNC)

infarkt

John had a heart attack three years ago.(CALD)

I think he's had a heart attack. (CLD)

He'd survived two heart attacks and was very careful about what he ate.(CDAE)

prozatimní opatření (stav, vedení...)

The budget needs to be a holding operation, so that a recovery can become established before the real attack on the budget deficit is made in December.(BNC)

alternativní medicína, léčení

Paracelsus's influence on homoeopathy and holistic medicine is genuine, but the paracelsian legacy is much wider. (BNC)

In the centre, we record part of my daily routine for self-help holistic medicine which includes pectoral muscle exercises. (BNC)

The treatment was stopped and Mrs Hilton prescribed her own course of healthy eating and holistic medicine. (BNC)