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cakes and aleveselost, 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 |
cannot have one's cake and eat itnemoci 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) You really do seem to be trying to have your cake and eat it; being anti-cruise, anti-Thatcher, anti-Foot, anti-SDP/Liberal Alliance and anti-CND-all at the same time! BNC |
carrot and/or (the) stickcukr a bič She favoured a carrot-and-stick approach to teaching. (Oxford Idioms) |
cash in your chipszabalit to, sbalit si svých pět švestek; natáhnout bačkory The companies cashed in their chips and moved out of the valley. (Oxford Idioms) |
cayenne pepperčervená paprika |
certified milkpasterizované mléko |
champing/chomping at the bit (also be chafing at the bit)hořet netrpělivostí The players were champing at the bit as the start of the match was delayed. (Oxford Idioms) |
cheese strawssýrové 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 |
cheese-caketvarohový 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 |
cheese-cutterdrátěný 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
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cheese-paringkůra 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 |
cheese-scoopnůž na braní vzorků sýra |
cheese(-)boardservírovací 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 |
cheese(-)clothprocezovací 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 |