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Dear Jane letter

dopis nebo vzkaz, ve kterém partner ukončuje vztah

Write your own Dear Jane letter and never send it. Sometimes writing out your feelings towards the sender of an impersonal Dear John letter may make you feel more in control of your life. (Google)

Chief Robinson suspects that Sharkey is a real ladies man when he accidentally sees a "Dear Jane" letter in the typewriter. (Google)

I got a "Dear Jane" letter. But I didn’t know it at first. It was disguised. It was a cute card, which on closer inspection was a copy of the one I had sent to him a few days earlier. And I thought he just wanted to send it back to me because it was so sweet and endearing. (Google)

Dear John letter

dopis nebo vzkaz, kterým partnerka ukončí vztah

How to Write a Dear John Letter. There is no easy way to break up with a boyfriend. There will always be feelings hurt in a break up. (Google)

The Dear John Letter was much more prevalent and more sinister during wartime, when soldiers were unable to avoid conscription and could not return home during leave. (Google)

Remember the old Dear John letters that you used to hear about? The guy would come home to find the house empty, he would spot a note on the mantle and it would start out “Dear John”. It would go on to explain that his wife no longer wanted anything to do with him. (Google)

do sb down

kritizovať niekoho, zhadzovať niekoho pred niekym

Don't you like her then? I used to but I found that she was always trying to do down the girls in our tennis club who were not interested in joining her little clique. (Google)

If you go on doing everyone down like this, you will soon find yourself without a single friend. (Google)

It seems that many people, perhaps without even thinking about it, would rather do down the other player than cooperate with the other player to do down the banker. (BNC)



do/make a promise

sľúbiť

Sandison remembered some vague promise he had made about leaving the city when he was satisfied that Elsie was indeed alive and well. (BNC)

'You made a promise,' Maidstone said. 'So I did. Well, I never meant to keep it.' (BNC)

At home we make a promise to ourselves. (BNC)

don't flatter yourself

nefandi si, nenamýšľaj si

I flatter myself that this campaign will put an end to the war. (Google)

Yeah. She's totally into me. She calls me all the time. Don't flatter yourself! (Google)

In fact how am I to know you didn't do all this just so we could be in this very position now? Don't flatter yourself! (BNC)



drop a line

napísať niekomu zopár riadkov

I intend also to drop a line to Norman too. (BNC)

We really do like hearing from you, so drop us a line and let us know how you are. (Google)

If you've got a few minutes to spare you could always drop her a line. (Google)