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Glossaire: FOOD
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d'you want jam on it?

co bys chtěl víc?

I’ve just bought you a beautiful new house and filled it with new furniture and now you say you want a car too. D’you want a jam on it? Longman

daily bread

živobytí, chléb vezdejší

Each one of us has to earn our daily bread somehow. (Oxford Idioms)

dairy bar

mléčný bar, mléčná jídelna

dairy butter

mlékárenské máslo

dairy cattle

dojnice, mléčný skot

Apart from the strain on accommodation and feed stocks, having to keep dairy cattle on instead of selling them as planned means exceeding milk quota, possibly at great cost. BNC

Selection for resistance to mastitis and good fertility at the same time as selection for milk yield and quality is proving effective in the dairy cattle population of Norway. BNC

Here's your chance to see some of the best dairy cattle in the world while taking in the sights on our coast-to-coast autumn tour of the USA. BNC

dairy factory

továrna na mléčné výrobky

dairy farm

hospodářství věnující se mlékárnské výrobě

It is thought to be the largest British dairy farm to go green, and the conversion -- for deeply held environmental reasons -- is backed by sound economic logic. BNC

These 1400 Mule ewes were being moved back after dipping on D K Farms, West Wycombe, an 800ha (2000-acre) sheep and dairy farm. BNC

It's now run as a dairy farm with a herd of 16 Ayrshires -- the second-best in Staffordshire, says Derrick Golland the country's advisory teacher on environmental subjects. BNC

dairy lunch

mléčná jídelna

dairy products

mlékárenské výrobky, mléčné podukty

Elsewhere in the town other RAOC victuallers from the Ration Platoon are collecting the order for dry goods and dairy products. BNC

But the piling-up of EC surpluses of beef, dairy products and cereals could -- up to a point. BNC

The ministry confirmed high levels of dioxin in the milk following tests carried out in March, and said some of the dairy products entered the food chain but there had been no public health risk. BNC

deep plate

hluboký talíř

Frankie groped around on the shelves until his fingers encountered a deep plate. BNC

Before this there was a very deep plate of vegetable soup. BNC

Turn the pudding out into a deep plate or a dish with room to hold some of the juice reserved for pouring over it. BNC

demon drink

alkohol

It was the demon drink that made me act in that way. (Oxford Idioms)

dessert plate

dezertní talířek

We washed six place settings (one side plate, one dinner plate, one pudding bowl, one dessert plate for each setting, plus one large serving platter and three serving dishes), cutlery (eight pieces for each place setting), six champagne, red wine and white wine glasses, a roasting tin, four saucepans, four serving spoons, a carving knife and fork, six coffee cups and saucers and a cafétière, both by hand and using a Bosch SMS 6032 dishwasher to compare use of water and detergents and the end results. BNC

Dessert plate (with chocolates), £22.50, and matching jardinière (with silver sweets), £29.50; both by Paloma Picasso, from Villeroy & Boch at Liberty. BNC

Nicolo watched as Caroline spooned the last bit of tiramisu from her dessert plate. BNC

different kettle of fish

něco úplně jiného, jiná věc, to je o něčem jiném

You may be able to read French well, but speaking it fluently is a different kettle of fish entirely. (Oxford Idioms) 

dinner dress/gown

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

dinner jacket/suit

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

dinner party

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

dinnertime

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

dip

namáčet

do one's nut(s)

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)

If I’m late home my Mum will do her nut! Macmillan Dictionary

do one's porridge

bručet, sedět

dog eat dog

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

dog's breakfast/dinner

nepořádek

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

dressed up like a dog's dinner

vyšňořený, vyparádění

drink a t. dry

vypít do dna, vyčerpat

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

drink and meat to sb

úplná rozkoš pro někoho

drink deep

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

drink like a fish

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

drink one's fill

napít se dosyta, uhasit žízeň

drink sb under the table

opít někoho do němoty

When you've drunk the crew of a Grinch pirate skiff under the table, there's precious little you can't do. BNC

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 to sb's health

připít na zdraví

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

drinking water

pitná voda

These people get their bath water from the river and their drinking water from a large well outside the town. (English Idioms and how to use them)

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

drop (a pinch of) salt on the tail of a bird

nasypat vrabci sůl na ocásek

drop a t. like a hot potato

utéci od čeho, pustit co jako by to pálilo

In these conditions, the type of homosexuality that is mediated through pop music can only go just so far: in a perfect paradigm, Frankie Goes to Hollywood exploited the gay image of lead singers Paul Rutherford and Holly Johnson -- for "Relax" -- and then dropped it like a hot potato as soon as another marketing device -- this time, nuclear war became available for "Two Tribes". BNC

Charging pensioners and children for medical prescriptions picked that one up and dropped it like a hot potato and charging for hospital treatment and why so why not do a U-turn on on this one? BNC

drunk as a lord

opilý namol

I couldn’t understand what the man was saying; he was as drunk as a lord . Longman

And Finnegan spendin' what little money he has on drink, rollin' home at all hours of the night from the pubs in the village, drunk as a lord. BNC

When I came round they gave me a large tot of whisky, another injection of morphia and sent me off to Imtarfa, as drunk as a lord. BNC

drunk or sober

opilý nebo střízlivý

adjectives in idiomatic order

But drunk or sober, he was always careful. BNC

Most people didn't try wit or persuasion on her, drunk or sober. BNC

drunken quarrel/brawl

opilecká hádka, rvačka

The last Advice I shall give you, relates to your Behaviour when you are going to be hanged; which, either for robbing your Master, for House-breaking, or going upon the High-way, or in a drunken Quarrel, by killing the first Man you meet, may very probably be your Lot… BNC