labour painsporodní bolesti Their first baby, who was to cause far more than labour pains, arrived in mid-May 1939. BNC The nurses topped it up again as soon as they realised but it took time to go through and have any effect so I had about twenty minutes of real labour pains. BNC As luck would have it, she had no time to build up her fears again, for her labour pains started that very night. BNC |
latchkey kidMy dad came home at seven in the evening and my mom only an hour earlier so I was a latchkey kid. CIDI At what age can a child become a 'latchkey kid'? WebC I was a pathetic latchkey kid who watched way too much MTV as a child. WebC |
lawful wedlockprávoplatné manželství By the Adoption Act 1958, property of adopter and adoptee is to devolve in all respects as if the adoptee were the child of the adopter, born in lawful wedlock. BNC Children born in lawful wedlock, or within a competent time afterwards, are presumed to be the issue of the father, and follow his condition. WebC The status of a person born in lawful wedlock is called legitimacy. WebC |
lawfully wedded wifeprávoplatná manželka I Terry do take you Joanne to be my lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer or poorer in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till death do us part. WebC Do you (Groom) take (Bride) to be your lawfully wedded wife? WebC As the first lawfully wedded wife among the gods, Hera was placed as the proectress of the deity of wives. WebC |
leave sb. holding a babynechat všechno na kom, hodit všechno na koho He abandoned the project after a year because he felt that it was going to fail and I was left holding the baby. CIDI The "big decisions" have been made largely, if not solely, by Shaw during the last five years and they are now left holding a baby which has been thrust on them at a time of crisis. WebC After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancee, sailor Knocker White finds himself left holding a baby. WebC |
like a child in a sweet shopšťastný jako blecha, radostí bez sebe Give him a room full of old books and he's like a child in a sweetshop. CIDI It came through a couple of days ago and I was like a child in a sweetshop. WebC If you are shoe fetishist, or just a lover of good design, you will feel like a child in a sweetshop. WebC |
live to a ripe old agedožít se vysokého/požehnaného věku Both his grandparents lived to a ripe old age. CIDI I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age --; but is it really worth taking the chance? BNC As if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters, she lived to a ripe old age, dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855, aged eighty-seven. BNC |
long courtshipdlouhé dvoření, námluvy Right proposal may need long courtship. WebC This sometimes happens when a long courtship leads to marriage. WebC He felt that I was the answer to his prayers for a partner, and we were married after a year-long courtship. WebC |
lose one's heart to sb.zamilovat se do koho She comes across as beautiful but bland, leaving you to wonder why Hellboy couldn't lose his heart to someone more interesting. WebC Will the Yankee boy lose his heart to the gentle Confederate woman? WebC From the moment the Landon begins describing Jamie....well, most readers will know |
love at first sightláska na první pohled It was love at first sight for me and Danielle, and as the weeks went by I became more and more besotted. BNC Favourite fairy tales are the need for spiritual growth, love at first sight, the pull of destiny or meetings in past lives, and we do not realize the primitive level of being in which the bond has its source. BNC For Marion and Ronald it was love at first sight. BNC |
love birdsmilenci In the morning room she wound the French clock, the one with love birds entwined on the top of it. BNC You'd think that having four lovebirds would give you four times the love of just one -right? WebC Half an hour later she left the two love birds, Maura and Carla in tow. BNC |
love childdítě lásky, nemanželské dítě He allegedly has a love child in Australia from an affair with a much younger woman. CIDI A runaway Irish priest and his schoolgirl sweetheart have set up home with their love child. BNC Was William a love child, kept in the background because of the embarrassment, or were most of the records of his existence obliterated after his untimely death, to give solace to a stern and autocratic murderess? BNC |
love matchsňatek z lásky In your letter you made it quite clear it would be no love match. BNC Everyone tried to dress it up as a love match but it wasn't. BNC The whole matter was not so much solved as channelled in another direction by the sudden love match between Mary and her first cousin Henry, whom she described as the "properest and best proportioned long man" she had ever seen. BNC |
Love me, love my dog.Musíš mě milovat takovou, jaká jsem/takového, jaký jsem. They're also cliquey in a "love me, love my dog" kind of way. WebC When I met Brad, it was a clear case of love me, love my dog. WebC "Love me, love my dog," you'll find the poem of its origin in this book. WebC |
love of one's lifeživotní láska She felt humiliated, sexually worthless and incapable of holding the man she still believes is 'the love of my life'. BNC The young man then died an unheroic death, riding his motorcycle underneath a lorry in Hammersmith and Vanessa's emotions fed on the tragedy until she was convinced he had been the love of her life. BNC A smooth, Manhattan music publicist, Ollie has just married the love of his life and has a child on the way. WebC |
lover's knotuzel lásky I am caught I am tied with a lover's knot, like a fly, caught in your web I could break free. WebC Just you, just me I'll tie a lover's knot Around wonderful you. WebC We'll tie a lover's knot, Just say you love me. WebC |
Lucky in cards, unlucky in love.Štěstí ve hře, neštěstí v lásce. And you know that saying, "Lucky in cards, unlucky in love?" well it is possible to be unlucky in both! WebC I sat back filing my nails as she played losing my confidence here, Lucky in cards unlucky in love. WebC "Lucky in cards, unlucky in love" was how Lord Arcenbryght, the worldly scion of the wealthy Malloren family, cynically viewed himself. WebC |