funny bone - brňavka

noun, informal - a place at the back of the elbow where you feel pain or a tingling sensation if you hit it

 

harem - harém

noun, American English - the wives or concubines of a man (esp. in Muslim societies) or the part of a house where they live

 

doorman - portýr, vrátný

noun - a person whose job is to stand by the door of a large building and open the door for visitors

 

head-on - čelně (např. o nehodě)

adverb - in a way that the front of something (e.g. a car) hits the front of something else (e.g. another car)

 

catch-22 - bezvýchodná situace, začarovaný kruh

phrase - an impossible situation where you cannot do one thing until you do another thing that you cannot do until you have done the first one

atomizer - lahvička s rozprašovačem, nádoba s rozprašovačem, rozprašovač

noun - a container with a mechanism that changes a liquid into a fine spray, or the mechanism itself

 

deflate - vyfouknout (vzduch z něčeho), vypustit vzduch (z něčeho)

verb - to let the air out of something (e.g. a tire, a mattress, a ball, a boat etc.)

roulette - ruleta

noun - a casino game in which there is a wheel with red and black numbers and a small ball, the players bet money on the number where they think the ball will stop

 

stereotyped - stereotypizovaný

adjective - based on an idea or opinion that a lot of people have about a group of people or things, which doesn't necessarily have to be true

 

stereotype - vidět stereotypně, vnímat stereotypně, vytvářet si předsudky

verb - to form an idea or opinion that a lot of people have about a group of people or things, which doesn't necessarily have to be true

 

stereotypical - stereotypní

adjective - based on an idea or opinion that a lot of people have about a group of people or things, which doesn't necessarily have to be true

Sudan - Súdán

noun - a country in north-eastern Africa, bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, and Libya to the northwest

 

portrayal - zobrazení, znázornění, ztvárnění

noun - the act of showing someone or something in a picture, in a book, etc., the way someone or something is shown in a picture, in a book, etc.

setting - prostředí (příběhu), umístění (příběhu), zasazení (v čase či místě)

noun - the time and place in which a story, a novel, a movie etc. takes place

contraceptive - antikoncepce (prostředek či metoda)

noun - a method or a means of preventing conception (such as a condom, the pill etc.)