cornflower - chrpa

noun - a popular wild plant with blue flowers

forsythia - zlatice, zlatý déšť, forzýtie (keř)

noun - a large bush that has hundreds of small yellow flowers in the early spring

 

eat humble pie - sypat si popel na hlavu, přiznat chybu

verb - to admit that you have been wrong, to admit that you have made a mistake

 

humble - prostý, skromný

adjective - not special, not of a high rank

 

humility - pokora, skromnost

noun - the quality of not being proud or not thinking that you are better than others

 

nitpicker - hnidopich

noun, informal - a person who pays too much attention to small details that are not important

 

whiner - ufňukánek

noun - someone, especially a child, who whines a lot

godsend - dar z nebe, dar shůry, dar od boha

noun - something good that happens unexpectedly

 

inefficiency - neefektivnost, neefektivita

noun - the inability to work without wasting time, money, effort etc.

 

outnumbered - čelící přesile, v menšině

adjective - to be smaller in number than someone/something else

 

clutter - zaneřádit, zaplnit

verb - to fill a place with too many things, creating a mess

clutter - nepořádek, haraburdí, změť

noun - a lot of things in one place that create a mess

bale - balík (např. slámy)

noun - a bundle of light material tightly pressed and bound together (such as hay, cotton etc.)

 

cut through - zkrátit si cestu (kudy)

verb - to get somewhere faster by taking a shortcut

 

cut back - omezit, snížit, redukovat

verb - to reduce something