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 breadživobytí, chléb vezdejší Each one of us has to earn our daily bread somehow. (Oxford Idioms) |
dairy barmléčný bar, mléčná jídelna |
dairy buttermlékárenské máslo |
dairy cattledojnice, 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 factorytovárna na mléčné výrobky |
dairy farmhospodářství 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 lunchmléčná jídelna |
dairy productsmlékárenské 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 platehluboký 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 drinkalkohol It was the demon drink that made me act in that way. (Oxford Idioms) |
dessert platedezertní 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 fishněco 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/gownvečerní 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/suitsmoking 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 partyvečírek 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 |
dinnertimeobvyklý 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 |
dipnamáčet |
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 porridgebručet, sedět |
dog eat dogtvrdý 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/dinnernepořádek 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 dinnervyšňořený, vyparádění |
drink a t. dryvypít do dna, vyčerpat Fill swimming pool with Newcastle Brown Ale and drink dry through straws. BNC |
drink and meat to sbúplná rozkoš pro někoho |
drink deepnapít 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 fishpít 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 fillnapít se dosyta, uhasit žízeň |
drink sb under the tableopít 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 waterspít 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 healthpřipít na zdraví Let's drink to his health and finish the bowl. BNC |
drinking waterpitná 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 drinkdohnat 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 birdnasypat vrabci sůl na ocásek |
drop a t. like a hot potatoutéci 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 lordopilý 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 soberopilý 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/brawlopilecká 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 |