vyžírka

veselost, radost; veselý život, radost ze života;veselka

So supposing you never marry, and if you go on being so fussy you probably never will -- are there to be no cakes and ale? BNC

nemoci mít obě věci najednou

If you spend all your money on clothes, you won’t be able to go the cinema at the weekend—you can’t have your cake and eat it ! (Longman)

cukr a bič

She favoured a carrot-and-stick approach to teaching. (Oxford Idioms)

zabalit to, sbalit si svých pět švestek; natáhnout bačkory

The companies cashed in their chips and moved out of the valley. (Oxford Idioms)

hořet netrpělivostí

The players were champing at the bit as the start of the match was delayed. (Oxford Idioms)

sýrové tyčinky

"I'm going to make some cheese straws," she said, "and maybe fry some onion rings" BNC

Then when he was entertaining one of his friends he couldn't get his stove to burn right and he had to keep it alight with matchboxes and cheese straws. BNC

Nenna had just time to say, I must be going, before she came back, tottering at a kind of dignified slant, and holding a large tin of cheese straws. BNC

tvarohový koláč; slang. reklamní fotografie polonahých dívek

White stilton with stem ginger, at about £2.60 a pound, is ideal for dessert or cheese cake filling, while white cheddar with mango chutney, at about £2.55 a pound, makes tangy sandwiches. BNC

I've still got these cheese cake to finish off, wash your hands. BNC

drátěný kráječ sýra

Beyond him was the blank, windowless side of the house, smooth and flat, as if the row of houses had been sliced with a cheese-cutter. BNC

kůra od sýra; maličkost, nicotnost; skrblictví

Any cheese-paring of the logistic stocks reduces battle efficiency, and failure to look after barracks, married quarters, and installations in the short term piles up trouble and expensive rebuilding for the future. BNC

It was not until ten years later that we began to see that in fact these very English store-cupboard provisions, so far from being suited to the cheese-paring methods necessitated by desperate shortages, demand first-class basic ingredients and a liberal hand with butter. BNC

This is cheese-paring, I know, but it might help. BNC

servírovací prkénko na sýr

Heart-shaped cheeses are also produced which are very attractive on a cheese-board: Coeur de Neufchatel and Coeur de Bray are two of the best known, both from the Pays de Bray in Normandy. BNC

Creamy in texture and blue-veined, "Blues" will be a hit on your cheese-board. BNC

Then she cooked pasta and shredded chicken and chopped fruit and nuts and sliced black bread and made beetroot soup and prepared sour cream and a cheese board and polished wine glasses and put butter in lemon-coloured dishes and made salad dressings and laid the table and set a serviette decorated with a Groucho Marx face by the side of each place. BNC

procezovací pláténko na tvaroh, fáčovina, velmi jemná látka

Shoulder-length blond hair, embroidered cheese-cloth shirt, single strand of beads -- I mean, beads but tasteful -- a sensual hint of hash and patchouli, and midnight blue denims stretched taut then flaring over the longest, leanest bass-guitarist's thighs in Glasgow. BNC 

I'm wearing a denim waistcoat, cheesecloth shirt and baggy denim jeans, and I'm smiling fit to burst, as I always seem to be in photographs. BNC

It was so hot outside that she had settled for an orange cheesecloth caftan, which she'd jacked in with a belt of linked gold hippos. BNC

karbanátek se sýrem v housce

A proper discussion of a football match cannot occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide (or perhaps its deletion from it) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries (though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible). BNC

It's 4.30 on a Friday afternoon and she's ordering a cheeseburger with mayo, ketchup and fries and a cup of tea. BNC

You know, for instance, that ordering deep-fried breaded mozzarella bites in an Italian restaurant will mean plenty of cholesterol, saturated fat and calories, and that a hefty cheeseburger on a sesame bun is rich in animal fat, protein and refined carbohydrates. BNC

otrávený, nakrknutý

In 1988, customers, so cheesed off with the Line's service, staged the famous so-called "battle of Finchley Central," occupying a train after an all-too-common announcement that it was to be diverted to Mill Hill East instead of `;speeding'; to its original destination of High Barnet. BNC

On the other hand, imagine the embarrassment of calling a full-scale search out for somebody who is not only not in peril, but is mightily cheesed off to be awoken from a deep sleep by an RAF Sea-King helicopter blowing the filling out of their sleeping-bag? BNC

Maybe he was cheesed off meeting people so far along the ridge without explanation as to their start point. BNC

propírat cizí záležitosti, drbat

Most of the older women meet to chew the fat with their neighbours every morning. Longman

And during his flying visit to Belfast, Mr Grade took time out to chew the fat about the old days. BNC

Sure like to chew the fat with you, fella, but I got a busy day on. BNC

malá hodnota, za babku, pakatel

Your rent is chicken feed in comparison with mine. (Longman)

The boys' antics are mere chicken feed to the Dynasty company, whose security chief Keith Heading (a glowering John Diehl) has a far bigger fraud on the boil involving stolen cards, dead colleagues and warehouses full of gleaming Porsches. BNC

And the hours I spent with the airbrush… ah, five hundred roubles was chicken feed for the work I put in. BNC

komplikovaná situace, kdy není jasné, co je příčina a co důsledek

Is she unhappy because she gets into debt, or does she get into dept because she's unhappy? I suppose it's chicken-and-egg situation. (Oxford Idioms)

nic nezůstane bez trestu, špatné skutky se jednou vymstí

For years he avoided paying tax. But now his chickens have come home to roost and he's got a tax bill of 25 000 pounds. (Oxford Idioms)

čokoládový vojáček, kterému se nechce bojovat

A young man in an Acker Bilk ensemble lurked in the doorway and a girl in a red satin skirt and a chocolate soldier cap twirled a baton and stamped her feet. BNC

The diminutive midfield player Archie Gemmill once called him "the chocolate soldier," adding with barbed wit, "if Souness was chocolate he'd eat himself." BNC

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) 

překonat se

I didn't cut the mustard as a hockey player. (Oxford Idioms)

umřít jako boháč, nechat po sobě majlant