NATURE

válet se v bahně

Under constant taunts from their captors, the artillerymen were forced to crawl, wallow in mud, hang by their legs from a horizontal bar... Times

Reality dramas where people eat bugs and wallow in mud. COCA

I have a sudden desire to wallow in mud. Should I be worried? Google

teplokrevný


Only warm-blooded animals-mammals and birds-and only photosynthesizing plants. COCA

The Russians' successful transplantation of hearts in warm-blooded animals. Times

I thought all those warm-blooded young Latin ladies had hair as black as a raven's wing. BNC

porybný

Floundering excitedly among the real salmon, he had not noticed the water bailiff, who observed. BNC

Derrick Worthington, 49, a former Royal Marine who has been a water bailiff for 14 years on Wales' Pembrokeshire rivers. COCA

A water bailiff is a law enforcement officer responsible for the policing of bodies of water, such as a river, lake or coast. Google

vodní rostliny

If you buy water plants from an aquarist's shop, you will often find small animals on them. BNC

A rule of thumb: Water plants weekly (in the morning), and feed every other week. COCA

Beavers live chiefly on bark, twigs, the roots of water plants. Times

vodní flóra rostoucí ve stojatých vodách; např. vodní mor kanadský

Three downward steps stopped above a tidemark of dried moss and waterweed. BNC

All they have to do is lift their arms or shake their waterweed hair to provoke screams that would blot out an allclear signal. Times

He was covered with waterweed and mud, but didn't bother to rinse himself. COCA

smuteční vrba

1. Behind her the canopy of a weeping willow fell like a curtain. (COCA)
2. I stared out his window where I had watched a weeping willow move from icy tendrils to bright green and back again. (COCA)
3. The leaves of the weeping willow in the churchyard spilled over the wrought-iron railings onto the pavement. (COCA)
   
   

když kocour není doma, myši mají pré

1. When cat's away, the mice will play: the sexual partnerships of rural women whose husbands are migrants. (Google)
   
2. If your saying is the "while the cat's away the mice will play" shouldn't there be no cat and a photo of mice doing something? (Google)
3. When the cat's away the mice will play. How many of you make plans when your parents are not around-gone for the weekend. (Google)

nadměrná zátěž

1. Families are, therefore, left behind with a new white elephant. (COCA)
2. We need to do with the Dome so that itdoesn't become a white elephant. (COCA)
3. African National Congress and the reactivation of the dam, Cahora Bassa remains a white elephant of little benefit to the struggling Mozambican economy. (COCA)
   

zpěněná voda pod vodopádem

There she was, alone, canoeing through white water, shooting rapids. BNC

I watched rafts of helmet-clad adventure-tourists sweep past on a torrent of white water. COCA

But some of the escort ships, tossing white water in their haste, had swerved from their courses to concentrate in one area. Times

peřeje

The river was amazing as there was a lot of white water rapids and due to the rain it was quite deep. BNC

The right fork becomes a river with white water rapids. COCA

The most exciting was the white water rapids and jets of water which had been created out of doors. BNC