kýčovitý

Has the chocolate-box portrait of Raine, Countess Spencer, resplendent with lacquered back-combed hair and bare shoulders -- the picture that rubbed shoulders so anachronistically with Van Dycks and Gainsboroughs -- been removed from the staircase? BNC 

 Lucinda was pretty, Vi acknowledged -- chocolate-box pretty. BNC

From chocolate-box pretty Windermere to the decidedly spooky atmosphere at Wastwater there is water, water everywhere. BNC

mlsná huba, mlsná koza

He was a bit bird-like, a picky eater (especially when he was paying), fast in his movements and very thin in the sort of way that brings out the motherly best in women. BNC

However, if your baby is a picky eater and you're worried about her getting enough iron, there's still no need to change to follow-on milk. BNC

vývar

Choose simple starters such as chilled fruit juice, melon, clear soup, salads with a little olive oil dressing, or seafood dishes without sauces. BNC

Thus to make a wonderful stock base for poaching or a clear soup, water would be highly flavoured with lemon or lime juice, plus lemon grass and kaffir lime leaf. BNC

The inevitable clear soup followed (pot au feu this time); the sole was served in a delicate sauce almost imperceptibly flavoured with cheese, and the dean's daughter appreciated it so much that the Colonel's initial peevishness began to wear off. BNC

kakaové máslo

She watched Polynesians scoop up untreated cocoa butter and apply it directly to their skins and felt the smooth texture the skin consequently acquired. BNC

Cocoa butter is now an important ingredient in her skin-care products, for example. BNC

Cocoa butter, the rich fatty substance in the beans, is extracted from the ground nibs and this is the basis of the chocolate industry. BNC

zničit nečí šance, zmařit něčí plány

He thought that the police would never find him but when he saw the officer coming towards him he realized that his goose was finally cooked. (Oxford Idioms)

falšovat např. podklady, účetnictví, manipulovat s daty

The two directors of the company had been cooking the books, a local court herd yeasterday. (Oxford Idioms)

vést si znamenitě, senzačně

Business may have been a little slow at first, but now we're cooking with gas! (Oxford Idioms) 

studený jako psí čumák, studený jako ryba, naprosto klidný, klidný jako Angličan

Everyone was rushing round trying to get things ready, and he just sat there, cool as a cucumber. (Oxford Idioms)

povaleč, lenoch

He claims he had to develop such a style for his latest role, as the couch potato host of TV Hell , last month's one-night-stand featuring some of the classically bad moments of popular television. BNC

The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato. BNC

It is no good you being a couch potato and having a Dobermann, only to wonder why it seems so frustrated with its existence. BNC

smetánka, to nejlepší

Only the cream of the crop of the year's movies are nominated for an award. (Oxford Idioms)