without further ado
-bez puno priče Without further ado, here is my list of the ten best restaurants in Split.
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Idiomi i fraze
Česti engleski idiomi i fraze
without/beyond a shadow of a doubt
bez ikakve sumnje One of those attending, Alexander Badiyev, said: “This was ordered by Putin, without a shadow of a doubt. They have shown us what the fate will be of all those who are against them.”
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withstand/stand the test of time
“odolijevati zubu vremena” Bill and Nancy just celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Their marriage has stood the test of time. The singer’s work was not popular while she was alive, but it has stood the test of time.
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work against the clock
-brzo raditi jer vrijeme ističe But he acknowledged they are working against the clock, as they now have two weeks left to locate the plane’s “black box” voice and data recorder before it no longer transmits an electronic locator signal.
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work your fingers to the bone
-ubiti se od posla; raditi do iznemoglosti She worked her fingers to the bone to provide a home and food for seven children.
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worth its (your) weight in gold
zlata vrijedan – veoma vrijedan, dragocjen, neobično važan
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X marks the spot
-To je točno to mjesto. (Sometimes the speaker will draw an X in the spot while saying this.) This is where the rock struck my car—X marks the spot. Now, please move that table over here. Yes, right here—X marks the spot.
year dot
-oduvijek; od Adama i Eve; od pamtivijeka since the year dot; from the year dot Children have been fascinated by fairy tales since the year dot.
young blood
-preneseno – svježa krv – mladi ljudi koji imaju nove ideje i energiju These companies are suffering from a lack of young blood.
zero hour
-vrijeme kada nešto važno počinje Right before the dawn, the military had been waiting for zero hour to start the operation.
zero tolerance
-bez imalo tolerancije Time to take a zero-tolerance approach to the banks: Patience in Threadneedle Street is wearing thin but if you want to make bankers behave we should treat financial malfeasance like benefit fraud…