rocket up - vyletět, vyskočit, prudce stoupnout (ceny apod.)

verb, informal - to increase or rise extremely quickly

 

dry-stone wall - suchá zeď, nasucho stavěná zeď (bez malty)

noun, British English - a stone wall built without mortar

 

dry wall - suchá zeď, nasucho stavěná zeď (bez malty)

noun, American English, technical - a stone wall built without mortar

dry wall - sádrokarton

noun, American English - a kind of material used to build interior walls and ceilings, it is made of plaster and paper

 

lead astray - svést na špatnou cestu, uvést v omyl

verb - to make somebody go in the wrong direction or do bad things, to make somebody believe something that is not true

 

go astray - ztratit se, sejít z cesty, pokazit se

verb - to lose the right direction, to get lost or stolen, to go wrong

 

chain - uvázat na řetěz

verb - to tie or fasten something using a long line of metal rings connected to each other

 

usurious - lichvářský

adjective, formal - loaned with very high rates of interest

 

usury - lichva

noun, dated - the practice of lending money at very high rates of interest

 

usurer - lichvář

noun, dated - a person who you can lend money but with a very high interest

loan shark - lichvář

noun - a person who you can lend money but with a very high interest

 

bubbly - bublinkatý, bublající, plný bublinek

adjective - full of bubbles

bubbly - veselý, temperamentní, živý, energický

adjective, informal - always happy, cheerful and enthusiastic

 

crone - babizna, bába, ježibaba

noun - an unpleasant old woman

 

broom cupboard - kumbál (na úklidové prostředky), komora (na úklidové prostředky)

noun, British English - a small room or a closet where you keep cleaning things, mops, buckets etc.