lapat po dechu

He kissed the damp pulse at her throat as she gasped for breath, exhausted with pleasure. (BNC)

He gasped for breath but managed to finish a scathing indictment that wasn't as effective as he might have wished. (BNC)

The dumbfounded girl gasped for breath. (BNC)

nezbytnost, nutnost, nezbytná potřeba

If you think about it, air is essentially the `;breath of life'. (BNC)

Religion is a vital and enduring part of man's life and experience in Egypt, the breath of life itself. (BNC)

His creator had fashioned him from clockwork and set him to go through the motions of living without giving him the actual breath of life. (BNC)

zápach z úst, zkažený dech

Even if you are resorting to it out of nervousness or fear that you have bad breath it will create a very negative impression on the interviewer. (BNC)

Despite suggestions that he should bathe every day, he still suffers from smelly feet and bad breath. (BNC)

Bad breath is one of the biggest turn offs so most men are pretty keen to keep theirs smelling sweet. (BNC)

hojit se, zacelovat se, uzdravovat se

She's been ill with flu but she's on the mend now.(CALD)

He's still a bit tired but he's definitely on the mend.(CIDI)

Then she looked back at me and smiled a brave, convalescent smile, not yet well, but on the mend, cured in spirit. (BNC)

onemocnět čím

She fell ill with/was taken ill with influenza last week. (English Idioms, Oxford)

However, on the pre-Broadway run in Philadelphia, Mostel fell ill and died after only one performance. (BNC)

Germaine fell ill with influenza and the sessions had to be interrupted. (BNC)

cítit se výbroně, skvěle, být v dobré kondici

být nadprůměrný, vyhovovat

Yet, as it happened, he was registering well above par that evening, for three of the four ideas he had formulated were finally to prove wholly correct. (BNC)

The jeans maker's bonds are trading above par, even in a badly depressed market. (BNC)

If the current price is above par, the operative life of the bond will depend on the date on which the call price falls below the current price. (BNC)

mít bolesti, být v bolestech

She is in pain, but wants to endure it. (BNC)

My only consolation is that for the first time in her life Horatia is in pain. (BNC)

Fat people's bodies just don't know when to say no. for example, it is easy to tell when your body has a fever, is in pain or is tired. (BNC)

hop nebo trop

I'll grit my teeth and attack the course tomorrow --; death or glory, nothing in between.(BNC)

drobná bolení, drobné potíže, bolístky

I met Hilary yesterday. She talked about her aches and pains all the time. (English Idioms, Oxford)

Women of your age imagine aches and pains --; are you sure you're not attention seeking?(BNC)

The afflicted person will complain of aches and pains, headache, sore throat, loss of appetite, and general malaise. (BNC)

zahrávat si se smrtí

You're dicing with death driving at that sort of speed on icy roads.(CIDI)

Not everyone yearns to dice with death!, she retorted sweetly. (BNC)

 A charity stunt team which drives volunteers through a tunnel of fire has been warned by experts that it's dicing with death. (BNC)

být na výsost spokojený/potěšený

Val was tickled pink when Susan asked her to be bridesmaid at her wedding.(CIDI)

But Princess Di was tickled pink yesterday by this new portrait. (BNC)

It was tough to make pars and every time we did we were tickled to death. (BNC)

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)

být v posledním tažení

The coalition seems to be in its death throes. (LDCE)

Already by 1740 European feudalism is experiencing its death throes. (BNC)

He screamed as loudly as his horse that was now blocking the high road with its failing death throes. (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)

být na smrtelné posteli

His son-in-law, on the old man's deathbed, asked where the spot was and he wouldn't tell him. (BNC)

On her deathbed Mary Leapor reportedly expressed concern for her father's advancing age. (BNC)

This had happened at what was thought to be the king's deathbed on 6 March 1093. (BNC)