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Łączone Feldman
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Boom | a period of sudden growth |
| Slashed | greatly reduced |
| Quiz | ask someone question about something |
| Haul | a large amount of something that has been stole nor is illegal |
| Plunge | suddenly fall in value or level |
| Bid | an offer or attempt |
| Dash | run somewhere very quickly |
| Brawl | fight |
| Hike | an increase in the cost of somethinh,especially a large or unwanted increase |
| Boost | improves or increases something |
| To be up to | to stand,to capable of,to occur,to stay |
| To cover up | wyciszyc,to hush,to muffle,to cloak |
| To bring in | wprowadzac,to implement,to lead,to present,to introduce |
| To face up | sprostac,stawic czolo,to beard |
| To blow over | ucichnac,milknac,to stop talking,to become silent,to trail off/away |
| To crack down | rozprawiac się,brac się za kogos |
| To win over | pozyskac,to recruit,to raise,to win |
| To put forward | przedlozyc,wytoczyć,wysunąć,to propound,to submit |
| To go back on | cofnac,to unsay,to rewind,to countermand |
| To stand down | odmeldowac się,ustepowac,to yield,to resign,to step down,to remit |
| To lampoon | make something silly,to criticise publicily |
| To mute | to silence,to make sth weaker |
| Chief | director,high |
| Drama | exciting,dramatic event |
| Reshuffle | to rearrange,rearrangement |
| Gag | to silence,censor,censorship |
| Gems | jewels |
| Swoop | raid |
| Poll(s) | election,voting,public opinion,survey |
| Quit | to resign,to leave |
| Seek/soight | to look for,ask for,want |
| Rig | to falsify |
| Move | action,step,to take action |
| Clash | fightinh,argument,conflict,to argue,to fight |
| Woo | to try to attract |
| Foil | to prevent |
| Halt | stop,to stop |
| Oust | to force out of office,remove from high position |
| Quiz | to question,interrogate |
| Plea | strong request,call for help,appeal |
| Ban | to prohibit,prohibition |
| Back | support,to suport |
| Flee | run away from,escape |
| Split | divide,division |
| Leak | to escape,escape(of secret information) |
| Riddle | mystery |
| Probe | investigate,investigation |
| Axe | close,dismiss,cancel,closure,dismissal |
| Lift | remove(restriction,prohibitions) |
| Curb | restrict,restriction |
| Baffled | at a loss to explain,mystified |
| Storm | angry argument |
| Rap | criticize,reprimand |
| Call | to demand,to appeal,demand,appeal |
| Envoy | diplomat,ambasador |
| Editorial | artykul wstępny/wydawniczy |
| Caption | napisy wyswietane na ekranie |
| Comic srtrip | historyjka obrazkowa |
| Obituary | nekrolog |
| Preview | zapowiedz,prapremiera |
| Review | recenzja |
| Put pressure on sb (to do sth) | force or tryt i persuade to do sth that person is then u nder pressure |
| Leak out | (of secret information) become known to the public. |
| Off the record | used for saying that remarki s not official or intended to be made public.OPP on the record |
| Blow sth (up) out of (all) proportion | make sth seem much worse or more dangerous than it really is |
| A hausehold name | a name known to everyone;a famous name |
| Stir sth up | try to cause arguments or problems |
| Cast doubt(s) on sth | make people feel less certain about sth |
| Blow over | if a difficult situation blows over, people stoptalking about it and soon forget about it |
| Go away | disappear |
| Stamp sth out | get rid of sth that is wrong or dangerous, often with force |
| The sooner the better | as soon as possible |
| Bear the burnt if sth | suffer the worst part of sth unpleasant |
| Not ring ture | if sth doesn’t ring true, you don’t believe it, even though you cannot explain why |
| Go to great lengths (to do sth) | – try in a determined way to achieve sth. (If you willl go to any lengths (to do sth), you are so determined to achieve sth that you would act in an extreme way in neccessary.) |
| If it weren’t/wasn’t for sb/sth | used to say who or what is preventing sth from happening (if it weren’t for the press, …= without the press,…). |
| Sweep sth under the carpet | try to keep str a secret,especially sth you have done wrong |
| Come out in/into the open | (of sth that was previously secret) become known.SYN come to light. |
| Overstep the mark | upset sb by doing or saying more than you should.SYN go too far |
| Speak out (against sth) | state your opinions in public, especially in order to protest against or defend sth. |
| Have mixed feelings about sth/sb | feel both positivee and negative about sth/sb |
| In broad daylight | at a time of day when is not dar kor beginning to get dark (aften used when you are suprised to see sth at time of day) |
| Be on the lookout for sb/sth | INF be looking carefully for sb/sth in order to find tchem. |
| Hold sth up | use violence to steal from a shop, bank, etc. |
| Lie in wait (for sb) | hide while waiting to suprise, attack, or catch sb. |
| At gunpoint | while being threatend with a gun |
| Make off with sth | steal sth and hurry away with it in order to escape |
| Step sth up | increase the amount or speed of sth |
| In the wake of sth | coming soon after or following sth |
| Crack down (on sth/sb) | INF try harder to prevent an illegal activity and deal severely with those caught doing the activity.crackdown N. |
| In possession of sth | FML.having or owning sth, often sth that is illegal or important |
| Nip sth in the bud | INF stop a bad situation from becoming worse by talking action a tan early stage of its development |
| Press charges (against sb) | oficially accuse sb of committing a crime |
| Clear sb’s name | prove that sb did not do sth that they were accused of. |
| Tighten sth up | make a law, rule, or system more strict |
| Go on the offensive | bein to take action against sb who is attacking or criticizing you, or styh you think is undesirable |
| Lead sb astray | be a bad influence on sb and make tchem do sth silly or criminal |
| Go/be under cover | pretend to be sb else in order to find out secret information |
| Phase sth out | gradually stop using sth over time.OPP phase sth in |
| On the up | increasing (as above), or improving, e.g. Business is on the up |
| In the clear | no longer believed to be guilty of sth bad or illegal. |
| Clean up your act | INF start behaving in a more moral and responsible way |
| Come/be under fire | be criticized severely for sth you have done |
| Quick/slow off the mark | fast/slow in reaction to a situation |
| Add up | INF seem reasonable or logical (used mainly in a negative sense, e.g. His story doesn’t add up) |
| Pluck sth out of the air | say a name, numer, etc. Without giving i tany thought |
| Capitalize on sth | gain a further advantage for yourself from a situation |
| Stop the rot | stop a bad situation from getting worse |
| Talk sth up | describe or discuss sth in a way that makes it sound better than it is |
| Neck and neck | (of two people or groups) level with each other in a race or competition |
| In the final analysis | used to state a basic truth after everything has been discussed and considered |
| Boil down to sth | if a situation or problem boils down to one thing, that thing is the main point in the situation, or the main cause of the problem |
| A war of words | a bitter argument between groups over a period of time |
| Put your hause in order | make necessary changes or improvements in your business, wat of life, etc. |
| Not give/budge/move an inch | INF refuse to change an opinion, decision, etc. |
| Jump/climb on the bandwagon | INF, disapproving join others in doing or saying sth that is populat and fashionable in order to make yourself popular |
| Give sb the benefit of the doubt | treat sb as if their behaviour is hones or correct, even though you are nor certain that it is |
| Have a field day | (often used of the media) be given the opportunity to do sth you enjoy, especially when it causes trouble for sb else |
| Run and run | if sth is likely to run and run, it likelu to continue for long time. (we often say sth looks set to run and run=looks likely to.) |
| Bode well/ill for sb/sth | FML.be a good/bad sign for sb/sth |
| Turnout | the numer of people who attend an event. Turn out V. |
| From all walks of life | a crowd from all walkd of life consists of many different types of people (you walk of life is your background, jon, etc.) |
| Join/combine forces | work together to achieve sth |
| Make your way | (with adverbial phrase) move org et to particular place |
| Call on sb to do sth | officially ask d bor an organization to do sth |
| Bring/put and end to sth | stop sth happening |
| Board sth up | cover the windows or door of a building with wooden boards to protect i tor stop sb entering |
| Go Ahead | happen; take plae. Go |
| In the event | as it actually happened (used especially when things did not happen as expected) |
| Pass off | take place and be completed in a particular way (The protest passed of pacefully/smoothly/without incydent). SYN go off |
| Break sth up | make a group of people leave a place or stop doing sth |
| Stand up for sb/sth | support and defend sb/sth |
| Back down (on sth) | admit that you are wrong or have los tan argument |
| Press Ahead (with sth) | continue doing sth in a determined way |
| Pace the way (for sth) | create a situation which makes it easier for sth to happen |
| Sit in | a protest in which people sit down and refuse to leave a place until their demands are listened. Sit in V. |
| Cordon sth off | stop people from getting into an area by surrounding it with the police or by putting a barier round it |
| Fence sb in | (often passive)1.surround sb with a fence.2.restrict sb’s freedom.SYN hem sb in |
| Shut sth down | stop a machine, business, etc. From operating. Shutdown N |
| To set out to do something | to Begin with the intention of achieving something |
| To put something down to something | to consider something to be the result of something else |
| To come into something | to inherit something (especially money) |
| To live off someone/something | to depend on someone/something as a source of income |
| To pay something off | to repay a debt |
| To keep up with someone/something | |
| To fall back on someone/something | to return to someone/something for support, when other things have failed |
| To get by (on something) | to manage to survive (on something) despite difficulties |
| To put something by | to save soimething so you can use it later |
| Profit | you get when dales are higher than product costs |
| Receipt | a document that shows you’ve paid for something |
| Refund | money you get back when you are not satisfied with a product |
| Assets | everything a company or a person owns that is worth money (aktywa) |
| Capital | the money needed to start a business |
| Consumer/customer | the people that buy products and services |
| Dicount/lowerance | a reduction in price |
| Expenditure | money spent on good or services |
| Interest | the money a bank charges for a loan |
| Invoice | a bill listing the products delivered |
| Loan | money borrowed from a person or bank |
| Loss/overspending | the results when costs are higher than total sales |
| Retail | a business that sells products to the general public |
| Salary | the money that you earn from your job |
| Shareholder | a person who has bought parts or shares of a company |
| Taxes | money that people or companies have to pay to their government |
| Turnover | the total sales of a company |
| Wholesale | a business that sells goods in large wuantities to retail stores |
| Currency | the money a country uses |
| Liabilities | money that a company owes (pasywa) |
| Break a story | to be the first to broadcast or distribute the story of an event |
| Come in | to arrive, to become available for use, to start producing |
| To leak out | wyciekac, przeciekac |
| Hit the headlines | to appear in the news suddenly or receive a lot of attention in news reports |
| Make headlines | trafic na pierwsza strone gazet |
| Front | page headline |
| The latest news | ostatnie wieści, najswiezsze wieści |
| Be headline/front | page news |
| an Item of news | informacja, nowinka |
| run a story (publosh a story) | to continue a story in subsequent issues of a newspaper |
| Flick through the newspaper | to turn the pages of a book, magazine, newspaper, etc. Very quickly looking at some of pages for a very short time |
| Numismatist | numizmatyczny |
| Counterfoil | kupon, odcinek |
| Legal tender | prawny srodek płatniczy |
| Standing order | zlecenie stale |
| Counterfeit | falfsyfikat, fałszerstwo, podrobiony |
| Currency | waluta |
| Statement | oswiadczenie, sprawozdanie finansowe, wyciag |
| Expenditure | koszt, nakład, wydatek |
| Bounce | nie zostać zrealizowanym z powodu braku gotówki |
| Broke | bez grosza, spłukany |
| Chickenfeed | a small amount of anything, especially of money |
| Quid | funt szterling, funciak |
| I.O.U | i owe you, wisze Ci (kase) |
| Hire purchase | sprzedaz/kupno ratalne |
| Mortgage | hipoteka |
| Make ends meet | wiazac koniec z koncem |
| Instalments | raty |
| Digits | cyfry |
| Scores | wyniki |
| Odd | nieparzysty, sprzeczność, nierownosc |
| Round | około, wokół |
| Roman | powiesc, Rzymianin |
| Dozen | tuzin |
| Gross | brutto, gros (dwanaście tuzinow) |
| Even | nawet, kwita, jeszcze |
| Good | dobra, dobre |
| Average | sredni, przeciętny, mierny, uśredniony |
| Ordinal | liczebnik porządkowy |
| Cardinal | liczebnik glowny, kardynalny, glowny, kardynal, podstawowy |
| Hat | trick |
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