tread water - šlapat vodu, stagnovat

verb - to stay in the same spot, not to make any progress

 

spruce up - dát (se) do pucu, hodit (se) do gala, poladit, porovnat

verb, informal - to make someone or something cleaner; to improve the appearance generally

 

in favour of - pro (co), ve prospěch (čeho)

preposition - in support of someone or something, for the reason of something

 

band - skupina, skupinka

noun - a group of people who have the same interests or ideas

 

addendum - dodatek, doplněk

noun - a piece of text added at the end of a publication

 

inventiveness - vynalézavost, důmyslnost

noun - the ability to deal with things in an original, clever way

 

municipal - městský, obecní

adjective - connected to the local government of a particular town or city

 

resistance - odpor, vzdor

noun - the act of opposing or fighting against something (power, authority etc.)

 

intake - přívod

noun - the place where a liquid enters a container, a machine etc.

 

Purgatory - očistec

noun - the place where, according to some religions, the spirit of a dead person is sent to suffer for their sins before they can go to heaven

 

Mad-Eye Moody - Pošuk Moody

noun - (Harry Potter) Harry's teacher of the Defense Against the Dark Arts in his fourth year at Hogwarts (he had a magical eye and only one leg)

map - mapa

noun - a piece of paper with a drawing of the surface of a country or a region, showing where the towns and rivers and lakes etc. are

 

sequel - pokračování (knihy či filmu apod.)

noun - a film or a book that continues the story of another film or book, (e.g. Jaws III, Terminator II, The Lost World (Jurassic Park II) etc.)

 

vendetta - krevní msta, msta, pomsta

noun - a long violent and bloody argument between two groups of people, in which one tries to punish the other for something that happened in the past

lees - sedlina, usazenina, kal (u vína)

noun, technical - the sediment consisting of dead yeast cells, grape solids, and other particles that settles at the bottom of a wine barrel or bottle during fermentation and aging