večerní šaty

At the Watford Gaumont, which I managed, people would come in dinner dress and they would have the same seat every week. BNC

She was in a dinner dress, with a coat thrown over it. BNC

smoking

This has always seemed to make sense, despite the Scots' own tendency to be caught with a wardrobe of empty coat-hangers and crumpled piles, and one's fear on behalf of England is that they are running out of time in which to find a dinner jacket. BNC

In the midst of this unrelenting wave of depression, I found myself, dressed in a borrowed dinner jacket, on the M11 headed for Cambridge, where I was about to make my first (and last) appearance as an after-dinner speaker. BNC

And a third, whose immaculate dinner jacket couldn't conceal hands scarred and stained from rebuilding a Mini Cooper, wanted to become the world's first professional classic rally driver. BNC

večírek s večeří

Predictably, it shot to the top of the dinner party list of mandatory topics and was talked relentlessly into the ground on every conceivable broadcasting medium. BNC

About six months after the dinner party she realised that, for the first time in her life, she had turned down a decent journalistic commission in order to start work for a crazy old lady off Ladbroke Grove, whose garden specialised in old roses, and who was insistent about sterilising soil before new plantings. BNC

Haslam recalls a time when Sir Peter Allen, then the ICI main board director responsible for plastics, predicted at a small dinner party at the ICI guest house at Welwyn Garden City that the market price for polythene would drop from the current 4s a pound to 1s 6d a pound within six months. BNC

obvyklý čas večeře nebo oběda

As dinnertime approaches, we cheer up. BNC

The school day always began with prayers at nine o'clock, followed by a scripture lesson, and there was invariably arithmetic in some form or another until dinnertime. BNC

And I've packed you a currant teacake for a "biting on," though you should be at Dudley afore dinnertime." BNC

dřít jako vůl, snažit se jako blbec, hrozně se rozčilovat

When your father sees your damage you’ve done to his car, he’ll do his nut . (Longman Dictionary)

bručet, sedět

tvrdý boj

What makes the man turn animal on a Rugby field when off it he’s…gentle and softly spoken. Clark explains: Rugby league is a game of survival. It’s dog eat dog … (Longman)

A negative view of marketing is the "dog eat dog" view where the school can only gain by putting another school at a disadvantage or loss. BNC

For 20 years after World War Two it seemed possible that the dog eat dog "survival of the fittest" brand of free market capitalism had been supplanted by a social contract between employers and workers, with only occasional mediation by the state. BNC

nepořádek

Don't ask Julie to help you with the decorating--she made a complete dog's brekfast of painting the kitchen! (Oxford Idioms)

vypít do dna, vyčerpat

Fill swimming pool with Newcastle Brown Ale and drink dry through straws. BNC

napít se, pít zhluboka

The child of a nonconformist father learnt to drink deep of the Catholic tradition. BNC

If she wouldn't be able to drink deep it would be better not to take another sip of the heady elixir he offered her. BNC

pít jako duha

The man drinks like a fish . He is drunk every night. Longman

Then he started to pull himself together, returned to Hollywood and stayed sober--except for Sundays, when he would lock himself away and drink like a fish. BNC

He could drink like a fish and I couldn't understand his coarse speech. BNC

napít se dosyta, uhasit žízeň