clutter something up
pretrpati, nagomilati Heaps of newspapers cluttered the room up and made it a fire hazard. Who cluttered up this house?
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stand a chance of
imati šansu / izgleda za (uspjeh) Do you think I stand a chance of winning first place? Everyone stands a chance of catching the disease.
dodder
tresti se (od starosti); teturati syn. totter The two elderly ladies were slowly doddering along, minding their own business, when a bike messenger sped by them on the sidewalk and nearly knocked them over.
buy something for a song
kupiti nešto vrlo povoljno No one else wanted it, so I picked it up for a song. I could buy this house for a song, because it’s so ugly. They bought their new car for a song.
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call something off
otkazati (sastanak i sl.); raskinuti (zaruke) Let’s call the whole thing off. – Odustanimo od svega ovoga. My sister was ill so we had to call off her party.
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get into hot water
upasti u teškoće (svojom krivnjom) You are going to get into hot water with Rebecca about that.
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(just) in case
za svaki slučaj It doesn’t look like it will be cold but we should take coats just in case.
from/since the year dot
dugi period vremena Children have been fascinated by ghost stories since the year dot.
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