butterfingers - nemehlo, nešika

noun, informal - a person who drops things

 

icing on the cake - třešnička na dortu

phrase, British English - something extra that is added to make a thing or a situation better

 

a piece of cake - hračka, brnkačka, snadná věc

noun, informal - something that is very easy to do

strain - cedit, přecedit, scedit, slít vodu

verb - to separate the liquid part from the solid part by pouring it through something with very small holes in it

 

have bigger fish to fry - mít jiné starosti, mít důležitější věci na práci

verb - to have more important problems to deal with

ice-filled - ledem naplněný

adjective - filled with ice

tumbler - sklenice

noun - a drinking glass with a flat bottom and straight sides, with no handles or a stem (sometimes made of plastic)

 

be up - dít se (s někým), být za problém

verb, informal - used when asking what is going on or what is the problem

queue up - stát ve frontě, řadit se do fronty, stát v řadě

verb, British English - to stand in a line, waiting for something (e.g. to buy tickets)

 

12-year-old - dvanáctiletý

adjective - being 12 years old

 

New Year's - Silvestr

noun, informal - the last day of the year

 

uptake - vstřebávání, absorpce

noun - the act of taking something in

slow on the uptake - zaostalý, zabržděný, s dlouhým vedením, nechápavý

adjective, informal - slow to understand something

 

letter of credit - akreditiv, pověřovací listina

noun - a letter from a bank that allows you to take a particular amount of money from another bank

 

three-foot-long - tři stopy dlouhý

adjective - having the length of three feet