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Site: OpenMoodle
Cours: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Glossaire: EDUCATION
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not mince matters/(one´s )words

speak frankly, bluntly or coarsely

The movie doesn't mince matters, either--it shows all facets of drug addiction.
 Google

And as in his paintings, Charles doesn't mince matters.  Google

When a very young girl gets into love matters, she "does them up,"
as the saying is, quite fast; she doesn't mince matters at all. Google

not one whit

not (in) the smallest amount or degree

The Anderton Lift, constructed in 1875 and reconstructed in 1908, on the Weaver Canal was, indeed, most spectacular --; and still is --; but not one whit more ingenious than the lift at Foxton.  BNCI

And, remarkably, it changed her personality not one whit.  BNCI

But he conducts himself in all situations with a dignity not one whit lessened by his shortness.  BNCI

not waste words

speak as briefly or as seldom as possible

You want someone who doesn't waste words. Google

As an actor, he doesn't waste words; as a director he doesn't waste images.
 Google

Good writing doesn't waste words. Google

now you´re talking

what you say or suggest is something I agree with or approve of

A new half-hour morning talk show called ‘Now youre
talking’ is looking for contributors. Google

Now You're Talking!, explores the Six Basic
Rules of Dialogue and provides practical video-based examples and training. Google

"Now you´re talking", said my father. WebC

nursery school

jesle/mateřská škola pro děti od 2-5 let

At the age of three or four I went to a nursery school. BNC

It has been proved that if a child attends a nursery school it benefits throughout the rest of its educational life. BNC

You are less likely to fall into criminal ways if you attend a nursery school. BNC

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of note

notable, well-known, highly regarded

One other feature is worthy of note in an attempt to bring together these views of professionals and those outlined above on managerialism.  BNCI

 His pattern was a lady of note, 19-year-old Charlotte Cecilia Leitch (known as Cecil), from Silloth in Cumbria, who played off scratch.  BNCI

Significantly, the producer is John Surman, English jazz composer of note.  bNCI

of the old school

ze staré školy

Reddlemen of the old shool are now but seldom seen. (Longman Dict. of English Id.)

Wilhelm described him as an eminent scholar of the old school, one of the last of his kind, and referred to him as his honored teacher. (WebC)

On page one of the story the speaker describes the spirit of the old school he has come to love.

on paper

as described, when judged entirely on written record or statements

On paper, however, the vessels would be on the order of the United States, enabling Israel to receive American financing and circumventing West German export restrictions.  BNCI

Overnight the new Soviet government, with plans for social welfare that on paper went far beyond those of Scandinavia or Britain in 1945, had to take over.  BNCI

On paper, this is one of the most attractive features of converting a business into a company limited by shares or by guarantee.  BNCI

one lives and learns

one picks up many useful or surprising pieces of information in the course of one´s life

It turned out to be illegal, but one lives and learns. Google

Before I got on the internet and got ICQ, I thought it where hard to
finde nice down to earth girls, but one lives and learns, eh? Google

It’s rather a continuing creative process where one lives and learns. Google

one´s opposite number

a person occupying the same, or a very similar, position as oneself

But, in the marketplace, one's opposite number is a person, not a parrot.  Google

It was necessary to know and
understand one's opposite number. Google

One of the essential ingredients of a business is not to disclose all of
one's cards at the same time, particularly to one's opposite number. Google

open to question

qustionable, arguable, uncertain

In academia, anything
is properly open to question, including the questioner.  Google

 We have now started our own venture called 'Open to
Question' which is a shorter course but with similar aims. Google

Depth of reasoning is open to question. Google

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parochial school

typ soukromé školy, která zahrnuje i náboženské vzdělání; většinou jde o grammar or high school vedenou kostelem nebo farností

pass all understanding

lie beyond the range of the human mind

Peace I give which will pass all understanding and shall keep your heart and mind. Google

 But what of the peace and love that pass all understanding? Google

The ways of this wizard pass all understanding (including methinks his own).  Google

pass sb´s comprehension

be too difficult for sb to understand or accept

Indeed, it passes his comprehension that in this age of enlightened reason, of wide travel and comparative study. Google

The problem of British taciturnity passed his comprehension;  Google

Yes, he himself was a doctor by profession, and how any one in England
could retain any nervous disorder passed his comprehension. Google

penny dreadful

(weekly) paper or a crude, sensational kind aimed on older children

We're the Penny Dreadful Players, a completely
student-run theatre organization at the University of Illinois. Google

The Penny Dreadful Players have gone on to become
UIUC's oldest student theatre company.  Google

The Penny Dreadful is a newspaper specifically published during the Fylde Folk Festival
to give the festival-goers a chance to publish jokes. Google