čtvrtek, 2. května 2024, 22.32
Stránky: OpenMoodle
Kurz: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Slovník: EDUCATION
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each one's grandmother to suck eggs

učit orla létat

Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

But before you dismiss me as a complete novice or decide that I am probably trying to teach my Grandmother to suck eggs, I'd like to give you an idea about a little project for the weekend.

I am not trying to teach anyone's grandmother to suck eggs, but this is beginning to resemble a Second Reading debate.

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easier said than done

suggesting some course of action is very much easier than actually carrying it out

Finding the perfect English house was easier said than done.  BNCI

All these behavioural skills fall into the easier said than done category but they are all learnable techniques that can be mastered with practice.  BNCI

 Like practically everything in business this is easier said than done, as the plethora of books, theories, advice and consultants testify.  BNCI

eat one´s words

take back what one has previously said was true, certain

 “It seems a little doubtful whether snooker as a spectator game is sufficiently popular to warrant the successful promotion of such an event,” responded the miffed secretary of the Billiards Association and Control Council … but it is not recorded whether he finally ate his words. WebC

This year he ate his words when his company re-entered the hosted market.  WebC

At 6.13pm on Wednesday, he ate his words, with a brief resignation speech.  WebC

elementary school

základní škola, obvykle pro děti od 5 do 11

Like my contemporaries I first attended an elementary school. BNC

I moved from elementary school to grammar school when I was twelve. BNC

William Forster ´s Education Bill of 1870 established in Britain the system of elementary schools for all. BNC

escape (sb´s ) attention/notice

be missed, not be observed or noticed

She was intuitive and had the uncanny ability to be where things were happening and, nothing escaped her attention. WebC

Since the subject has been introduced from the current session only, it seems to have escaped her attention.  WebC

That Jim had money had not escaped her attention, and while she tried to think that it didn't matter, sometimes she wondered what it might be like to have a rich husband.  WebC

every day (and) in every way (one is getting better and better)

one can improve, is improving, one´s gradually over a period of time by means of constant self-examination

Most of all, use this book to celebrate words every day in every way.  WebC

US SAILING must support them. We should not forget this big picture as we work on initiatives to get better every day in every way. WebC

Do whatever you can every day, in every way, to provide world-class service.  WebC

every schoolboy knows

even somebody who is still at scholl has learnt it already, and it therefore hardly needs repeating

As every schoolboy knows, Richard Hannay saves the day.  BNCI

They belong to the British Museum, which bought them in 1816 from Lord Elgin, as every schoolboy knows.  BNCI

exercise due/proper care (and attention)

take all the ordinary and normal precautions in a situation with some possibility of danger

So the crucial question is whether, if the basic valuation is produced by an employee of a building society, any failure to exercise due care and skill can constitute maladministration.  BNCI

If you solve the field problem and exercise due care in getting the signs right, you will find that the induced voltage is such as to oppose the voltage that created it.  BNCI

 The plaintiff sued the defendants for breach of contract to exercise due care in giving him financial advice.  BNCI

exercise one´s right(s)

do sth with the awareness that one is entitled to do it

It has been said more than once in the decided cases that section 7(4) cannot receive different constructions according to whether resort to the subsection arises for one of the reasons under section 7(3) or because the driver exercises his right to claim to have his breath specimen replaced under section 8(2).  BNCI

When the seller exercises his right of resale --; whether under subsection (3) or under subsection (4), the contract with the first buyer is thereby rescinded.  BNCI

It also applies where the buyer exercises his right to reject the goods and treat the contract as repudiated because of a breach of condition.  BNCI

explode a myth

destroy a basis of what is believed or accepted by many people

And now, it's time to explode a myth, unearth the truth, drive home a point, flush out the little rascal, expose, spell out, elucidate and unravel the mystery...  WebC

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them." WebC

Every so often commentators come clean with the public and explode a myth that they and their colleagues have been spending millions of dollars and years and years to create. WebC