random word of the day: a COWLICK

random word of the day: a COWLICK

ENG: bit of hair that always sticks out on someone's head

POL: sterczący kosmyk włosów

(1) A cowlick is that often annoying little sprig of hair that seems to grow in a different direction from everything else and just won't lie down

a SPRIG  –  dosł. gałązka, tu: kosmyk (a single small plant stem with leaves on it)

(2) I've finally learned how to tame my dreaded cowlick.

to TAME – poskromić (to control something dangerous or powerful)

to DREAD – lękać się, bać się (to be scared of something)

DREADED – przerażający, straszny (awful or scary)

(3) 10 Celebrities Who Have Overcome the Tyranny of the Cowlick.

to OVERCOME – pokonać (to beat somebody, to win a fight with somebody/ something)

(4) I've tried doing a side fringe, but because it's not how the cowlick naturally falls, it always goes back to the middle. What do you girls do?

a SIDE FRINGE – grzywka zaczesana na bok (bangs that point to the side)

(5) My niece has two cowlicks side by side on her crown, each going in opposite directions, so when she was a baby she had the cutest little natural mohawk that stuck straight up! Now her hair is very long, and you would never know.

SIDE BY SIDE – obok (next to each other)

the CROWN OF ONE’S HEAD – czubek głowy (the top part of a head)

a MOHAWK – irokez (a sometimes brightly coloured hairstyle, often worn in punk fashion, in which the hair is removed from the sides of the head and a central strip is made to point out from the head)

to STICK UP (STUCK-STUCK) – sterczeć pionowo (to point up above the surface of something and not lie flat)

YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW – Nikt by się nie domyślił. 

random word of the day: THAT'S A BIT RICH COMING FROM YOU

British word of the day: THAT’S A (BIT) RICH COMING FROM YOU

ENG: You are not being fair – you are as bad as me.

You are a hypocrite.

Look who’s talking.

You’re one to talk./ You should talk.

POL: I kto to mówi!

(1) A: Your driving terrifies the living daylights out of me.

B: Oh yeah? That's rich coming from you – your driving is rubbish.

to TERRIFY THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF SOMEONE – śmiertelnie kogoś przerażać (to scare someone very much)

RUBBISH – beznadziejny (bad at something)

(2) A: Are you chewing on a funny looking mushroom by any chance?

B: That's a bit rich coming from you. I've not heard anything productive or remotely related to reality from your corner yet.

to CHEW ON – przeżuwać (to bite something with your teeth)

REMOTELY – w najmniejszym stopniu, choć trochę (only a bit)

(3) RON: You know we are not supposed to do spells outside school.

HARRY: Bit rich coming from you. (staring at the floating car)

RON: Oh, this doesn’t count. We’re only borrowing this. It’s dad’s, we didn’t enchant it…

a SPELL – zaklęcie (a magic formula)

to STARE AT – przyglądać się (to look at something for a long time)

FLOATING – unoszący się w powietrzu (flying)

THIS DOESN’T COUNT. – to się nie liczy

to ENCHANT – zaczarować (to use magic on)

(4) A: Hey, can we give a thought to the little one here?

B: Ho, ho. That’s rich coming from you considering what the little one has seen and heard.

CONSIDERING – zważywszy, że (keeping in mind that)

(5) ROBIN: I’m not engaged anymore.

STRIKE: Why not?

ROBIN: This is rich coming from you.

STRIKE: What’s rich?

ROBIN: We don’t talk about personal… you don’t talk about personal stuff.

STRIKE: I seem to remember spilling my guts all over you in this very pub

ROBIN: Once.

to SPILL YOUR GUTS – zwierzać się ze swoich problemów (to tell someone all about yourself, especially your problems)

IN THIS VERY PUB – dokładnie w tym pubie (in this exact pub)

random word of the day: OVER MY DEAD BODY

random word of the day: OVER MY DEAD BODY

never, If you say something will happen over your dead body, you mean that you will do everything you can to prevent (stop) it

po moim trupie

(1) I know Dad wanted Gran to move in with us when she's better, but Mum said 'over her dead body', and that if Gran moved in, she'd move out.

to MOVE IN WITH SOMEONE – tutaj: wprowadzić się do kogoś (here: to start living in someone’s house)

(2) You want to take my kids away from me? Over my dead body!

*whips out a shotgun*

to WHIP OUT – błyskawicznie wyjąć (to pull out quickly)

a SHOTGUN – strzelba (a long gun which fires a large number of small metal bullets at one time, which is meant to be used for shooting birds and animals)

(3) [at his wife's funeral]

Daniel: When she first mentioned what's about to happen, I said, "Over my dead body." And she said, "No, Daniel, over mine... "

A FUNERAL – pogrzeb (a ceremony for burying or burning the body of a dead person)

to MENTION – wspomnieć (to talk about something for a short time)

(4) Over my dead body will I ever recommend anyone buy an appliance at Sears. Waiting over 2 weeks for a service call on my washing machine that has already had to be serviced 5 times now. Then receiving a call just now saying they have to reschedule to next week. Totally unacceptable customer service. Never again.

an APPLIANCE – urządzenie (a machine)

to RESCHEDULE – przełożyć na inny termin (to agree a new and later date for something to happen)

(5) I have raised him to be a great man and it's touching that he won't leave me, but over my dead body is he going to give up his dreams for me.

to RAISE – wychowywać (to take care of a person until they are completely grown)

TOUCHING – wzruszający (making you want to cry)

to GIVE UP – zrezygnować (to resign from)

(6) They’re trying to take you away from me. Over my dead body.