být mimo (blázen)

Anyone who saw us doing this would think we were off our trolleys.(CIDI)

Have you gone completely off your trolley? You'll never get away with it!(CIDI)

Are you off your trolley? said Wilcox. (BNC)

zemřít, zatřebat bačkorama, natáhnout brka;

přestat fungovat

We've had the same television for fifteen years and I think it's finally about to give up the ghost.(CIDI)

His head slumped forward as he gave up the ghost. (BNC)

Unfortunately one was having its innards repaired at the time and another gave up the ghost after operating for all of a second. (BNC)

It proved the last straw for John Titford; ill enough, no doubt, without the need to struggle against a winter to end all winters, his weary body gave up the ghost. (BNC)

zemřít, natáhnout brka; přestat fungovat/existovat

Three hundred more people lost their jobs in the same region when another firm bit the dust.(CIDI)

Two Hollywood stars of the thirties have recently bitten the dust.(CIDI)

Pete was 98 when he bit the dust. He lived for nearly a century.(W.Magnuson, Eng.Idioms)

zemřít, zatřebat bačkorama, natáhnout brka...

This place hasn't been the same since poor old Harry popped his clogs.(CIDI)

I think I'll leave all my money to charity when I pop my clogs.(CALD)

He just went on his knees and popped his clogs. (BNC)

Takový je život!

I am very sorry that John has lost his job, but then that`s life these days. (English Idioms, Oxford)

Sun, sand and cocktails - this is the life! (CIDI)

Whenever Maurice has bad luck, he says, "Ah, that's life." (W.Magnuson)

spatřit světlo světa, zrodit se

The Simpsons started life as animated shorts breaking up the sketches on The Tracey Ullman Show . (BNC)

Malvern Mill started life as a corn mill and was converted to silk in around 1840. (BNC)

The Cambridge Refugee Committee started life in the Quaker home of Hilda Sturge. (BNC)

být střed /em pozornosti

He was the life and soul of yesterday`s party. (Lingea)

We had a good time at Penny`s get-together. Of course, Mick was the life and soul of the party, as usual. (Eng. Idioms in Use, CUP)

Each evening he was off to the local pub The Royal Oak where he apparently became the life and soul of the party.(BNC)

ovládat něčí život

Don`t let drugs rule your life. (Lingea)

It is you, having shut the door on your fears which have hitherto ruled your life, who can open a new door. (BNC)

But it's silly to let a baby rule your life ain't it? (BNC)

žít svůj vlastní život, po svém

In Europe terrorist groups were bombing capitalist targets; in London psychologists were saying you had to live your own life in your own way and not according to your family, or you'd go mad. (BNC)

Live your own life --; not your child's. (BNC)

Now that the children have left home I can live my own life again.(CALD)

v žádném případě, ani za nic

"So you're going to bring Kev, are you?" "Not on your life!"(CALD)

Not on your life,'; she muttered through trembling teeth. (BNC)

'Would you kiss him?' 'Not on your life!' (CIDI)

začít znova, začít nový život

She decided to start a new life in Australia.(CALD)

Had he stayed in the East End, he may have drifted into delinquency; instead, his mother sent for him when he was 12 to start a new life in Canada. (BNC)

Soon he would be going out to start a new life. (BNC)

svěřit svůj život do čích rukou

She was not ready to place her life in the hands of any man. (BNC)

Every time you drive a car, you put your life in the hands of other motorists.(CIDI)

When you fly, you put your life in the hands of pilot. (Lingea)

dát život v sázku

According to some theorists, that's the only way men can let down their macho defences: in blood-letting, catastrophe, a suicidal willingness to put your life on the line. (BNC)

Then we thought of David's `;Death of Marat';, because, in my opinion, that painting contains the idea of the artist putting his own life on the line. (BNC)

Politicians aren't the ones putting their lives on the line fighting wars.(CIDI)

riskovat vlastní kůži, nasadit vlastní život

These skiers risk life and limb every day for the thrill of speed.(CIDI)

This meant I didn't have to get risk life and limb to get a good close up shot. (BNC)

The rescue team risked life and limb trying to get the three young climbers down the mountain. (English Idioms, Oxford)

vzít si život, spáchat sebevraždu

He took his own life because of her. (Lingea)

But it's still a mystery why Pamela Wray took her life. (BNC)

 One month after Pamela took her life, her family is still searching for a reason. (BNC)