back on one's feetuž zdravá, zase na nahou(po nemoci), zase v pořádku I had the flu, and was really sick, but now I am back on my feet. (Google) After I broke up with Sam, I was down for a while, but I am back on my feet. (Google) They prayed for me and I got back on my feet because of them. (Google) |
die a violent deathzemřít násilnou smrtí Like the latter two, he was to die a violent death, but that was not in the mind of his flatterers at that time. (BNC) One or two English kings were murdered and one died in battle in this period; no French or German king died a violent death. (BNC) She is believed to have died a violent death five years ago. (BNC) |
a death sentencerozsudek 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) |
a death certificateúmrtní 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) |
take sickonemocnět He took sick and died a week later. (LDCE) Edna's had to go home because Mum's been took sick. (BNC) Well,'; he began hesitantly, `;it all began when Una took sick and we had to get the doctor…'; (BNC) |
Black deathmor The cause of this devastation was the Black Death. (BNC) It will make the Black Death look like a mild dose of flu. (BNC) The disease was not actually known as the Black Death during the fourteenth century. (BNC) |
run/be running/have a (slight/high) temperature -mít teplotu, horečku Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature. (BNC) Harvey said he still had a temperature and must have something to eat before he went to bed. (BNC) By lunchtime she was distinctly unwell and the school nurse told her she had a temperature and sent her home. (BNC) |
take sb`s temperatureměřit někomu teplotu Every hour after the operation, a nurse took his temperature and plotted it on a progress' graph. (BNC) He was looking very hot and flushed in woodwork just now, and I sent him along to Mrs C. She took his temperature --; about the only thing she can do --; and sent him to bed.'; (BNC) My mother was reading to me from A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia, and I can remember exactly where she had got to in the book when, thinking I looked feverish, she took my temperature and put me to bed. (BNC) |
An apple a day keeps doctor away.Jablíčko denně, nemocí je méně. Mom gave me an apple, saying, "An apple a day keeps doctor away." (W.Magnuson, Eng.Idioms) The saying `;An apple a day keeps the doctor away'; contains some truth. (BNC) U Ba Lwin, in a later speech, said: `;There is a saying that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, and Saya'gyi Appleton has returned to Burma with a ton of apples. (BNC) |
a blind alleybýt slepá ulice, nemít budoucnost Tom thinks the job of motor mechanic is a blind alley, as in ten years` time, all cars may be electronic and computer-driven! (English Idioms, Oxford) The latest evolutionary theory may turn out to be a blind alley.(CIDI) This sort of thinking just seems to be leading us up/down a blind alley.(CALD) |
a/sb`s blind spot (with sb)"španělská vesnice", slabina, nerozumnět něčemu I`m afraid poetry is a blind spot with me. I like people to say what they mean in plain words. (English Idioms, Oxford) Brian has a blind spot as far as Sheila is concerned. She treats him abominably, but he escapes it all without question. (English Idioms, Oxford) He had a complete blind spot where public relations were concerned, so his political career was doomed from the start.(CIDI) |
turn a blind eye to stpřivřít oči nad, přehlížet, tolerovat co The boss knows that we often waste time chatting, but she just turns a blind eye to it. (English Idioms, Oxford) Management often turn a blind eye to bullying in the workplace.(CALD) I knew Kenny was taking the money but I turned a blind eye because he was my sister's child.(CIDI) |
go on/have/meet on a blind datemít schůzku/rande naslepo Karen and Doug have been happily married forover ten years. Did you know that they met on a blind date? (English Idioms, Oxford) Elaine arranged for me to go on a blind date with a bloke from her office.(CALD) Alexander and Mary met on a blind date and fell in love with each other. (BNC) |
be blind in one eyebýt slepý na jedno oko Gower Jones, who was also educated at the Llandaff School, managed to enlist in the Monmouthshire Regiment despite being blind in one eye. (BNC) There was a crash of breaking glass and the cat went blind in one eye. (BNC) At first I could find no cause, I panicked, if I could go blind in one eye without a cause, perhaps I could go blind in the other. (BNC) |
be as blind as a batbýt slepý jako krtek/patrona Nigel muttered, `;You're as blind as a bat,'; as he went out. (BNC) I'm as blind as a bat without my glasses.(CIDI) He told me I was as blind as a bat. (BNC) |