iznenaditi nekoga; izvršiti prepad na Bill caught his mother by surprise by coming to the door and pretending to be selling something. She bolted into the room and took them by surprise. I took the little bird by surprise, and it flew away.
-samo priča bez djela ...But they let me down again. This went on for the rest of the week. How awful! I was very put out indeed. It was all talk and no action.
(fig.) pionir
-osluškivati i udovoljiti nekome Women will, on occasion, pay more heed to the pros and cons, thereby conveying less confidence. That’s one reason men are promoted more often than women, yet ironically, a careful assessment of a challenge is almost always a better approach than blindly saying yes.
-špica, vrijeme kada se nešto najviše gleda/događa Virgin defended the prices saying: "This is a peak-time, busy service used principally by business people.
a basher - onaj koj napada, kritizira druge It must run in the family. There was a time, when he was a small boy, that his father was known as “basher”.
uz sve ostalo On top of everything else she does at a firm she has to finish final project over the night
pod bilo koju cijenu, svakako He decided to buy that car at any rate.
neriješena pitanja, razmirice They don t speak to each other for quite some time, they have some old scores to settle
proći dugačak put, teško do nečega doći He came a long way to his position of a head of that department.
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