pátek, 28. června 2024, 04.25
Stránky: OpenMoodle
Kurz: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Slovník: FOOD

drink to sb's health

připít na zdraví

Let's drink to his health and finish the bowl. BNC 

food-card

potravinový lístek

drink the waters

pít léčivou vodu, léčit se v lázních

The fashion for spas has died out in Britain, but in Germany and Italy there are still spas where people gather to drink the waters and undergo hydrotherapies. BNC

To drink the waters of Undry would heal any hurt, still any grief, and bring understanding of every mystery that weighs on humankind. BNC

drink one's fill

napít se dosyta, uhasit žízeň

be in/be the worse for drink

být opilý

The RUC sergeant went forward and arrested the man, who turned out to be the bank security guard who was rather the worse for drink, and had forgotten to lock the door! BNC

eat crow

musit spolknout hořkou pilulku

eat the air

stavět si vzdušné zámky

drive a person to drink

dohnat někoho k pití alkoholu

While making Mutiny on the Bounty in Tahiti, the megrims of working with Marlon Brando drove him to drink more than usual. BNC

be on the drink

pít, holdovat alkoholu

Aye, she says I'm feeling sick, well that's er all your if your head is what you call it when you feel awful, you know I say if you've been on the, on the drink you know when you get up and your head ooh, well that sets your stomach off, so his trouble's coming from his head, on his stomach. BNC 

eat out of a p.'s hand

zobat někomu z ruky

Thought he'd got me weighed up -- eating out of his hand. BNC

"He's got young black America eating out of his hand, because every night he takes their culture, and shoves it in mainstream America's face." BNC

The senior man, who had come in from Los Angeles to E.B.I.H.Q. after Erlich had left Washington, he'd be everybody's friend, he'd have them eating out of his hand down at Counter-Terrorism, he'd probably take out citizenship. BNC

eat dirt

plazit se v prachu, ponížit se, pokořit se

eat stick

líznout si hole, přičichnout k holi, dostat výprask

eat a p.'s salt

jíst čí chléb, být koho hostem

eat a p. out of house and home

vyjíst někoho, přivést na mizinu, zruinovat

In those times, a poet could descend on you with all his retinue and eat you out of house and home. BNC

Then in a matter of days, or even one day, are they not up and about again eating us out of house and home? BNC

"You must eat your wife out of house and home," commented Duncan. BNC

eat the herring

cítit se na to